This is a piece I put together for Tod Machover's birthday last weekend. All done in Ableton (excepting my outboard TX-81Z synth in homage to Tod's FM roots), it is made entirely with samples pulled from Tod's various compositions, glued together with keyboard parts I laid down - the entire process took about 3 days.  Tod's music is all summarized at: http://operaofthefuture.com/music/ and the releases in particular that I borrowed from are: Valis, Toy Symphony, Death and the Powers, Hyperstring Trilogy, The Brain Opera, Resurrection, Soft Morning/City, Angels: Voices from Eternity, Flora, and Not Simpler - a list that spans 30 years of work!

SoftHyperBrainPowers - A tribute to Tod Machover's repertoire

This is the SoundCloud site for Joe Paradiso.  I'm a professor at the MIT Media Lab (http://www.media.mit.edu/~joep).  My current work is on ubiquitous sensor/actuator networks and how this 'electronic nervous system' connects to people.  But I've also done extensive work in human-computer interfaces and musical controllers (see my group's website for videos and summaries of that work - http://resenv.media.mit.edu), and I'm also an electronic music synthesizer designer and musician - sound clips are posted here and more samples are available off http://www.media.mit.edu/~joep/synth.html and http://synth.media.mit.edu

SoftHyperBrainPowers - A tribute to Tod Machover's repertoire

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