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Article: Roll over, Beethoven: the computer-aided 'Brain Opera,' is music for Everyman. (project of MIT professor Tod Machover)
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- Newsweek
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- July 29, 1996
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IT'S A WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON IN the dark, gargantuan basement of the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, Mass. Tod Machover--composer, professor and mad scientist--would like you to sit in the Sensor Chair. "You're completing an electric circuit," he says. Which doesn't make you feel any better. You raise your arm--and get a drumroll. You wave both arms, and suddenly you're playing a full percussion set, or two, or 20. With a minor adjustment, your slightest movement sets off an orchestra. This, says Machover, is how "life becomes art."
Machover unveils his "hyperinstruments" on a grand scale this week with "Brain Opera." Part concert, part interactive fun house, it debuts in ...
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