This archive is a space for all extra material related to the Brain Opera project; it contains the work of the Hyperinstruments and Physics research groups at the Media Lab, architectural drawings of the Brain Opera set, technical designs for the experiences, articles by Tod Machover, theses by his students, and pictures of the fun-loving cast and crew. You can access them all in the index below:

Related Research at the MIT Media Lab

• Information on the Hyperinstruments research group at the MIT Media Lab

• Information on the Physics and Media Research Group at the MIT Media Lab

• Download a postscript copy of "Musical Applications of Electric Field Sensing," by Joseph A. Paradiso and Neil Gershenfeld.

Background Papers on the Brain Opera

• Architectural Designs for the Brain Opera, by Ray Kinoshita

• "The Brain Opera Technical Systems," by Joseph Paradiso

• Brain Opera Visual Design, by Sharon Daniel

• Tod Machover's article on the Brain Opera, written for the Ars Electronica Festival

• Previous Brain Opera graphical designs

• Sketch of the Mind Forest Structure, by Leonard Morse-Fortier

• Teresa Marrin's Masters' Thesis on the Digital Baton

• John Yu's Masters' Thesis on Automated Composition and the Music-Web instrument

• A Technical Description of the "Sensor Chair," one of the digital hyperinstruments which will be used to perform the Brain Opera.

• The technical documentation for "Rogus McBogus", a MIDI library (written by Ben Denckla and Patrick Pelletier) used to develop most of the Brain Opera experiences.

• A description of Ben Denckla's image-processing software for the Brain Opera performances.

• Technical Diagrams by Ben Denckla
  • Network Diagram
  • Computer Equipment
  • Experience Diagrams
  • Performance Space Diagram

Pictures and Press

• Pictures of the Team

• See what the Press has to say about the Brain Opera

• A small clipboard of fun images.

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