@mit.media.lab: Manaswi Mishra, a PhD student in the Media Lab’s Opera of the Future group, is building tools to help expert musicians express themselves in new ways, often in real time. “For me,” he says, “the musical instruments are a way through which we explore new technologies. With every new technology we have made instruments out of them, from carving holes and bones and making flutes to acoustic instruments and then metal and bronze instruments and then electronic and touchscreens and all of that. “What I think is most powerful is we are engineers, computer scientists, neuroscience researchers over here. My background is in physics and signal processing, and I build these instruments and I get to work with expert musicians while we are shaping the instrument itself. So there's this object and noun form of music, but it's so obvious in music that there is this verb form of music, which is where you're playing the music, you're performing it, you're creating it, you're improvising it. “People want to see music being made also. And the song is like not really successful when it reaches the last note, you know? It's, like, when it's happening.”

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