PBS Newshour featured the Opera of the Future group tonight. If you missed the broadcast, you can watch it here: Singing robots reflect tech’s humanity in opera of the future
Missing Operabot found!!
One of the operabots from the cast of Death and the Powers went AWOL a few days ago from the Media Lab. It turned up yesterday in, of all places, the Dallas Cowboys Stadium! Apparently it was invited there to help publicize the Dallas Opera's 2013-2014 season, which will include a simulcast of Turandot this …
Fireworks over Edinburgh
These photos of the firework finale at the Edinburgh Festival are just too spectacular not to share! So, what are some 21st-century ideas for merging music, technology and gunpowder? From Tod Machover's Facebook album, where he writes: Had VIP seats for the end-of-Festival fireworks last evening in Princes Gardens just below Edinburgh Castle. Remarkable to …
Gizmodo visits Sleep No More NYC
The popular technology blog Gizomodo sent an intrepid reporter to try out the enhanced Sleep No More experience during its beta test run. The result is this rich description of getting lost inside the creepy McKittrick Hotel. Donning a mask that on occasion transmits urgent, mysterious messages to her, she slowly realizes that the set …
Punchdrunk on its Media Lab collaboration
"I have just come to the end of two of the most exciting (and longest) weeks of my career," writes Peter Higgin, enrichment director at Punchdrunk. Writing in The Guardian, Higgin describes the culmination of the U.K. theater group's collaboration with our team at the MIT Media Lab to create an online enhancement for the hit New York …
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Singapore Photojournal Part 2
Tod has been attending Music Matters, part of the All That Matters conference that just wrapped up in Singapore. Top executives and creatives from major players in the global music industry get to mingle over five days at what conference organizers describe as a gathering of "all that matters in music, entertainment, technology and media." We previously posted …
Opera of the Future at Sleep No More NYC
At last the story can be told! For the past several months, the Opera of the Future team has been cranking away on a top-secret project to create an enhanced version of Sleep No More, the runaway hit theater experience currently playing in New York City. Last week, they beta tested the system with live …
Singapore Photojournal
Tod is currently attending Music Matters, part of the All That Matters conference going on this week in Singapore. Top executives and creatives from major players in the global music industry get to mingle over five days at what conference organizers describe as a gathering of "all that matters in music, entertainment, technology and media." …
Prelude to Toronto – Crowdsourced piano improv
Last week's experiment at the MIT Media Lab tested out a new system to allow the listening public to express musical preferences to a pianist who responded in real time. Tae Kim's tour de force of improvisation drew a highly engaged crowd both at the Media Lab and online, as well as some media attention. …
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Reviews of “Yesterday Happened”
Reviews are starting to pop up for "Yesterday Happened: Remembering HM." The music is receiving favorable comments! The play runs through May 13. Go and see it! Boston Globe - Investigating the absence of memory "...the most inspired element of “Yesterday Happened” happens in the five minutes before the play starts. Pianist Tae Kim rambles from one …
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