The Music, Mind, and Machine Group at the MIT Media Laboratory is a research group focusing on music and the cognitive investigations describing it. Ranging from the automatic detection of features in existing audio content to the future of efficient transmission over the internet, the group's mission is to determine and characterize music cognition on both micro and macroscopic scales. The wide variety of projects and research use empirical and theoretical methods to learn more about the structure of music (tempo, timbre, rhythm, etc.) as well as its effect on sociological groups (genre determination, human emotional response, prediction of human rhythm).

This group envisages a new future of audio technologies and interactive applications that will change the way music is conceived, created, transmitted and experienced, and we are active participants in every facet of this exciting future. Be sure to explore our web site, try out our demonstrations on site, and feel free to ask any questions about our research.

Latest News November 12, 2008 New Website Design The Mind, Music, and Machine group has a new website design thanks to its new UROP student Tammy. Please browse around for new additions and changes. Don't hesitate to send her an e-mail if something is incorrect or malfunctional. September 5, 2008 Wu-Hsi Li's Master Thesis is in Musicpainter: a Collaborative Composing Environment September 5, 2008 Anna Huang's Master Thesis is in Melodic Variations: Toward Cross-Cultural Transformation