Speakers for this event

• Eran Egozy

  Eran Egozy

  ERAN EGOZY, Professor of the Practice in Music Technology, is an entrepreneur, musician, and technologist. He is the co-founder and chief scientist of Harmonix Music Systems, the music-based video game company that created the revolutionary titles Guitar Hero, Rock Band, and Dance Central with sales in excess of one billion dollars. Eran and his business partner Alex Rigopulos were named in Time Magazine’s Time 100 and Fortune Magazine’s Top 40 Under 40. Eran is also an accomplished clarinetist, performing regularly with Radius Ensemble, Emmanuel Music, and freelancing in the Boston area. Prior to starting Harmonix, Eran earned degrees in Electrical Engineering and Music from MIT, where he conducted research on combining music and technology at the MIT Media Lab. Now back at MIT, his research and teaching interests include interactive music systems, music information retrieval, and multimodal musical expression and engagement. His current research project, ConcertCue, is a program-note streaming mobile app for live classical music concerts that has been featured with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston Baroque, and the New World Symphony.

• Tod Machover

  Tod Machover

  Tod Machover has been called “America’s most wired composer” by the Los Angeles Times. He is widely recognized as one of the most significant and innovative composers of his generation. He is also celebrated for inventing new technologies for music performance and creation, such as Hyperinstruments, “smart” performance systems that extend expression for virtuosi, from Yo-Yo Ma to Prince, as well as for the general public. He has been Muriel R. Cooper Professor of Music and Media at the MIT Media Lab since it was founded in 1985. His Hyperscore software—which allows anyone to compose original music using lines and colors—has enabled children around the world to have their music performed by major orchestras, chamber music ensembles, and rock bands. Machover is also deeply involved in developing musical technologies and concepts for medical and wellbeing contexts, helping to diagnose conditions, such as Alzheimer’s disease, or allowing people with cerebral palsy to communicate through music. At the MIT Media Lab, Machover is also Academic Head as well as Director of the Opera of the Future Group.He is Visiting Professor of Composition at the Royal Academy of Music (London) and the Curtis Institute of Music (Philadelphia). At Central Square Theater, he composed the music for Remembering H.M., an original play by Wesley Savick about Henry Molaison, who lived for 60 years with virtually no short term memory.