Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation

Tod Machover will receive the George Peabody Medal, the highest honor bestowed by the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins.

Ayat Abodayeh, Daniella DiPaola and Kimaya Lecamwasam are recognized as 2026 Graduate Students of Excellence.

Congratulations to Ayat, Eitan, and Ila on receiving this fellowship!

A paper co-authored by Kimaya Lecamwasam explores how music and lullabies support infant and caregiver wellbeing worldwide.

The broadcast included a discussion of music and AI as well as a live demo of the AI system from Professor Machover’s FLOW Symphony.

MIT Media Lab–connected research, people, and community moments shaped headlines and campus life throughout 2025.

Media Lab PhD student Kimaya Lecamwasam researches how music can shape well-being.

Qian Janice Wang has been named a Master of Wine—the first residing in Denmark—by the Institute of Masters of Wine.

MIT concert, featuring electronic and computer-generated music, was a part of the 2025 International Computer Music Conference.

Students at MIT Music Technology use design to push the frontier of digital instruments and software for human expression and empowerment.

Graduate program in music technology and computation brings new dimension to interdisciplinary offerings

Dean Hashim Sarkis announced that Professor Tod Machover has been named Faculty Director of the MIT Media Lab, effective July 1.

Master’s student honored with MIT’s Wiesner Award for her work creating immersive, tech-driven musical experiences.

Prof. Craig Carter’s precision design for a student-led project now on the moon encodes messages from around the world on a silicon wafer

Max Addae’s innovative instrument creates new connections between sound and touch.

This year's list includes work from Media Lab students, faculty members, and alumni.

With a launch date no earlier than February 26, 2025, three MIT research payloads aboard the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will travel to the moon

Tod Machover Honored as Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters

Congratulations to Professor Machover, who leads the Opera of the Future research group at the Media Lab!

Learn more about the world premiere of Tod Machover's latest composition—FLOW Symphony—on this related event page.

Congratulations to Kayla, Ila, and Ana on receiving this fellowship!

Professor Machover also held a commencement seminar, titled "Sound Futures: How Music and Technology Will Shape AI, Health, and Community.”

The prestigious honor society announces more than 250 new members, which includes Tod Machover, head of Opera of the Future.

Nicole L'Huillier, an alum of the Opera of the Future group, is collaborating on a sound installation at this year's Venice Biennale.

A series of images from an exhibition at the Venice Biennale 2024.

Addae received the award for VocalCords, which was developed as part of his master's thesis at the Media Lab.

The Media Lab is honored to have had its research and researchers highlighted in two 2023 end-of-year lists prepared by MIT News.

Tod Machover was full of praise for the young singers who gave his opera Schoenberg in Hollywood its first public performance in China

Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation.

Media Lab student Jessica Shand, of the Opera of the Future group, was named to the inaugural class of the 2023 SJA Fellowship.

The iconic sci-fi opera VALIS, first composed by Professor Tod Machover in 1987, reboots at MIT for a new generation.

Congratulations to four Media Lab students, who have received 2022 MIT Presidential Fellowship awards.

The iconic sci-fi opera VALIS reboots for a new generation

Five Media Lab students–Ila Kumar, Kimaya Lecamwasam, Cecilé Sadler, Aastha Shah, and Raechel Walker–win MIT Presidential Fellowship awards.

At MIT, Tod Machover’s ‘VALIS’ receives its first staged production in over two decades

The new Center will provide music education to students across North Texas, in cooperation with the Media Lab's Opera of the Future group.

"I want to see you."

"When I fell asleep that night, I had a dream."

Media Lab professor Tod Machover performed a new musical composition, "A Little Hub Symphony," during the SA+P advanced degree ceremony.

We're so proud of everything you've accomplished here, and can't wait to see what you do next.

Q+A sessions on two research projects with contributors from MIT and the Media Lab will be livestreamed from the ISS on May 26 and May 28.

GAMMIFIED was Professor Machover's first attempt to create a musical work based around therapeutic Gamma frequencies.

The Axiom Mission 2 launch will carry a variety of research from the MIT Media Lab to the International Space Station (ISS) on May 21, 2023

The MAD Fellowship is an opportunity for MIT grad students to propose a research-oriented or personal design project.

The HUMANS nanowafer, an MIT Space Exploration Initiative student-led project, will travel to the ISS this month, and later to the moon.