The Brain Opera Team


Welcome to the Brain Opera Team Page! You can reach us or read about us in our bios and web pages, below.



Tod Machover - Composer, Project Director
tmbrain@media.mit.edu
Phone : (617) 253 0394
Fax : (617) 258 7168
[Homepage][Bio]

Marvin Minsky - "Story/Mind" Consultant

minsky@media.mit.edu
[Homepage] [Bio]

Sharon Daniel - Visual Design Director / Web Site Designer

sdaniel@media.mit.edu
[Bio]

Ray Kinoshita - Set and Instrument Design

rkinoshi@art.umass.edu
[Bio]

Maggie Orth - Production Design and Direction

morth@media.mit.edu
[Bio]

Joe Paradiso - Technology Design and Direction

joep@media.mit.edu
[Homepage] [Bio]


Craig Abler - Sensor Carpet Electronics Design

cba@mit.edu
[Bio]

Ben Adida - Web Design

benjamin@media.mit.edu
[Homepage] [Bio]

Anne Azéma - Soprano

[Bio]

Maribeth Back - Interactive Sound Design

mbb@media.mit.edu
[Homepage] [Bio]

Karol Bennett - Soprano

[Bio]

Tanya Bezreh - Company Manager/Design Assistant

bezreh@media.mit.edu
[Homepage] [Bio]

Susan Bottari - Company Administrator

susan@media.mit.edu
[Bio]

Meredith Broussard - Talking Tree Technical Director

mer@media.mit.edu
[Bio]

Richard Ciliberto - Electronics Fabrication


[Bio]

Ben Denckla - Software Director

bdenckla@media.mit.edu
[Homepage] [Bio]

Anna Dirks - Visual Assistant

adirks@mit.edu
[Bio]

Chris Dodge - Interactive Video Processing and
Graphical Software Design for the Melody Easel and Gesture Wall

cdodge@media.mit.edu
[Bio]

Alexandra Ellwood - Software Design and Development

aellwood@mit.edu
[Bio]

Andrew Garcia - Internet Broadcasting/Music

mrdrew@mit.edu
[Bio]

Neil Gershenfeld - Technology Consultant

neilg@media.mit.edu
[Homepage] [Bio]

Laura Gerson - Production Assistant

laura@media.mit.edu
[Bio]

Matt Gorbet - Harmonic Driving Game Design

mgorbet@mit.edu
[Homepage] [Bio]

Ed Hammond - Audio Director

spock@media.mit.edu
[Homepage] [Bio]

Kai-yuh Hsiao - Software Design

khsiao@mit.edu
[Bio]

Lorraine Hunt - Mezzo-Soprano


[Bio]

Jin Kang - Visual Design Assistant

jkang@media.mit.edu
[Bio]

Jacqueline Karaaslanian - Audience Liaison

jk@media.mit.edu
[Bio]

June Kinoshita - Text Editing and Preparation

junekino@media.mit.edu
[Bio]

Ara Knaian - Rhythm Tree Electronics Design

ara@media.mit.edu
[Homepage] [Bio]

Suzanne B. Lowell - Lighting Designer


[Bio]

Teresa Marrin - Digital Baton Design, Website Direction, and Baton Performance

marrin@media.mit.edu
[Bio]

Eric Metois - Real-Time Voice Analysis/Processing

metois@media.mit.edu
[Homepage] [Bio]

Leonard Morse-Fortier - Structural Engineer

lfortier@mit.edu

Christopheren Nomura - Baritone


[Bio]

William Oliver - Singing Tree Audio Design

woliver@media.mit.edu
[Bio]

Kat Park - Visual Design Assistant

kat@media.mit.edu
[Homepage] [Bio]

Patrick Pelletier - Music Software Development and Design

pepellet@mit.edu
[Homepage] [Bio]

Rolf Rando - Harmonic Driving Graphics Software

rrando@media.mit.edu
[Bio]

Matt Reynolds - Electronics Development and Design

msreynol@mit.edu
[Bio]

Pete Rice - Music Software Development and Design

pwrice@media.mit.edu
[Bio]

Joel Rosenberg - Hardware Development

jrose@mit.edu
[Bio]

Noah Schottenfeld - Audio Design Assistant

noah@media.mit.edu
[Bio]

David Small - Expressive Text Design and Animation

dsmall@media.mit.edu
[Homepage] [Bio]

Josh Smith - Cam-8 Visual Effects and Microcontroller Programmer

jrs@media.mit.edu
[Homepage] [Bio]

Josh Strickon - Web Design/Webmaster

strickon@media.mit.edu
[Bio]

Charles Tang - Internet Music

tang@media.mit.edu
[Homepage] [Bio]

Chris Verplaetse - Digital Baton Hardware Design

verp@media.mit.edu
[Homepage] [Bio]

Daniel Weber - Web Design/Support

djweber@mit.edu
[Homepage] [Bio]

Michael Wiener - Production/Video Assistant

wiener@media.mit.edu
[Bio]

Yin Yin Wong - Expressive Text Design and Animation

yinyin@media.mit.edu
[Bio]

John Yu - Interactive Music Game Design

cyu@mit.edu
[Homepage] [Bio]


Seum-Lim Gan - "Brain Opera" coordinator, Singapore

phygansl@leonis.nus.sg
[Homepage] [Bio]

Talib Morgan - "Brain Opera" coordinator, Newark

talib@pegasus.rutgers.edu

Paul Krajniak - Theatrical Consultant

KRAJNIAK@aol.com
[Bio]

Jane Wojcik - Network Consultant

jwojcik@media.mit.edu
[Bio]

Many Thanks to the gracious people listed below:

Laura Aswad (Lincoln Center Festival), Terry Baker (Template Graphics), Sara Berliner
Phillip Betette (ART), David Boor (IBM and the MIT Media Lab)
Chris Buja (Bay Networks), Sergio Cannetti (NYNEX), John Carlson (ELO)
Vinton Cerf (MCI), Vic Chatigny, Ann-yi Eotvos, Javier Garcia-Torres
Bill Gray, Peter Kellock (Singapore Digital Media Consortium)
Jack Kelly (Group One Ltd.), Matt Keowen (Fujitsu Products of America)
Paul King (Lincoln Center), Bill Knassis (Microchip), Kip Koates (Belden Wire and Cable)
Ivonne Koonz (NEC Technologies, Inc.), Dan Ling, Robin Littlefield (Bay Networks)
Doug MacCallum (AKG), Sarah Manguso, Joseph Paradiso's Dad
Dave Port (AMP, Inc.), Dan Redmon (Microsoft), Phillip H. Rittmueller (NEC Technology, Inc.)
Joni Saphir (Pioneer New Media Technologies), Randy Schafer (Earth Computer Technology)
Allan Shaw, David Sollors, Jim Stonage (AVED Display Technologies)
Mark Tarlone (Electro Voice), Peggy Tayloe (Streamworks), Marten Terpstra (Bay Networks)
Peter Whikman (Belden Wire and Cable), Brad Zenger (InFocus)

From the MIT Media Lab:
Robert Bloomberg, David Boor, Laureen Fletcher, Lauren Gallant, Robert Greene
Professor Mike Hawley, Gerry Hornik, Dennis Irving
Professor Hiroshi Ishii, Rob Poor, Bernd Schoener
Flavia Sparacino, Natalia Tsarkova, Greg Tucker

The Physics and Media Research Group at the MIT Media Lab
The Personal Information Architecture Research Group at the MIT Media Lab


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