EnginArt: the CantoVario projects

Faculty Lead: Diana Dabby

Student Researchers:

  • Luis Zuniga ’21
  • Junwon Lee ’21
  • Michael Remley ’22
  • Aydin O’Leary ’23
  • Jaspar Katzban ’23
  • Andrew Chang ’24
  • Anthony Costarelli ’25

External collaborators: 

  • MIT Venture Mentoring Service

Research Objectives

The CantoVario projects involve research at the interface of musical variation, chaos science, signal processing, and acoustics.

R&D focuses on three active projects:

  1. an Audio Variation Engine
  2. MIDI Variation Engine
  3. Chaos+Music Science Museum Exhibit Prototype.

Impact

  1. The CantoVario projects can change the way musicians and non-musicians listen to, interact with, and create music.

This research is made possible by two grants from the National Science Foundation.

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