Sleep No More
We are collaborating with the theater group Punchdrunk to create an online platform for remote theatrical immersion that connects to their hit NYC show, Sleep No More.
Professor Tod Machover, Director
The Opera of the Future group at the MIT Media Lab explores concepts and techniques to help advance the future of musical composition, performance, learning, and expression. Through the design of new interfaces for both professional virtuosi and amateur music-lovers; the development of new techniques for interpreting and mapping expressive gesture; and the application of these technologies to innovative compositions and experiences; we seek to enhance music as a performance art, and to develop its transformative power as a counterpoint to our everyday lives. The scope of our research includes musical instrument design, concepts for new performance spaces, interactive touring and permanent installations, and “music toys”, and ranges from an extension of traditional forms, to radical departures, such as the Brain Opera, Toy Symphony, and Death and the Powers.
We are collaborating with the theater group Punchdrunk to create an online platform for remote theatrical immersion that connects to their hit NYC show, Sleep No More.
Death and the Powers is a groundbreaking robotic opera that brings a variety of technological, conceptual, and aesthetic innovations to the theatrical world.
We are creating a new work for symphony orchestra in collaboration with the entire city of Toronto.
SoundStrand is a music composition toy that can be manipulated physically to affect the rhythm, pitch, and harmony of musical motifs.
This collection of Tod Machover’s music focuses on chamber and orchestral music composed during the last decade, both with and without electronic enhancement.
We are creating the next generation of tools for enhancing expressive vocal and physical performance in ways that promote physical and emotional health.
Media Scores provide a means to orchestrate multiple modalities in the creation of expressive works of art and performance.
In the opera Death and the Powers, the main character’s expressive live performance is measured and transformed into robotic, visual, and sonic elements of the theatrical design.