Highlights of MIT's Festival of Art, Science and Technology, introduced by festival director Tod Machover. What a feast of gorgeous images, ideas and inspiration, from brain research and Marvin Minsky's theories to an electronic gamelan orchestra, Guitar Hero, Chinese lute, a robotic opera, Otto Piene's sky art and more. Catch a glimpse of one of …
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Yesterday's event, Music|Machines: Celebrating 50 Years of Music & Technology @ MIT, was a great success. The all-day program of talks, discussions and evening concert featured some giants of the past half-century of music and technology and attracted an overflow crowd to the M.I.T. Media Lab. The day-time talks were webcast live. Videos of those …
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Tod Machover was interviewed today on NPR's Morning Edition. Tod speaks with host Bob Oakes about Music|Machines, an all-day event that will be held tomorrow (February 5, 2011) at the M.I.T. Media Laboratory. The event features lectures and discussions by such electronic music pioneers and thinkers as Max Mathews, Barry Vercoe, Marvin Minsky, Joe Paradiso, …
Last week, a crowd gathered under the dome of the Hayden Planetarium in New York City to hear Tod Machover and artificial intelligence visionary Marvin Minsky converse about music and the mind. Tom Ashbrook, host of NPR's On Point, moderated. One take-away that I thought was particularly pertinent to opera was Marvin's opening remark: He …
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Opera of the Future 