Patchwerk Lets You Control The World’s Largest Modular Synthesizer

Patchwerk is a new web browser-based application that lets you control a massive modular synthesizer, housed at MIT, and hear the results: Patchwerk lets you control a massive analog synthesizer from your browser, and streams the results back to you and everyone connected. The interface on this site is linked to a physical synth cabinet… Read More Patchwerk Lets You Control The World’s Largest Modular Synthesizer

New ‘Robot Opera’ Explores Science Fiction Themes, Opera Of The Future

This is a preview of Death and the Powers, a new opera by Tod Machover with his Opera of the Future Group at the MIT Media Lab. Death and the Powers is a one-act, full evening work which tells the story of Simon Powers, a businessman and inventor, who wishes to perpetuate his existence beyond… Read More New ‘Robot Opera’ Explores Science Fiction Themes, Opera Of The Future

MIT’s Tod Machover On Hyperinstruments & Opera Of The Future

Tod Machover is head of the Media Lab’s Hyperinstruments/Opera of the Future group. An influential composer, he has been praised for creating music that breaks traditional artistic and cultural boundaries; his music has been performed and commissioned by some of the world’s most important performers and ensembles. In 1995, he received a “Chevalier de l’Ordre… Read More MIT’s Tod Machover On Hyperinstruments & Opera Of The Future