Featuring three Machover world premieres with spectacular graphics by Peter Torpey, this concert at the brand-new MIT Museum explores the ways that music affects our bodies and minds while we are producing, creating or listening to sound. Performed by a handpicked ensemble of young New York-based soloists, led by violinist Marina Kifferstein.

VocaGammified (2019-2021) is based on research showing that certain Gamma frequencies can stimulate the brain and treat certain neurodegenerative diseases; the soloist is soprano Karol Bennett.

Breathed (2022) considers how different breathing patterns and rhythms both reflect and influence our emotional state and physical wellbeing; the soloist is Jessica Shand on alto flute.

Brain Opera 2.0 (1996-2022) is a radical reimagining of Machover’s seminal interactive work originally commissioned for the first Lincoln Center Festival and based on Marvin Minsky’s classic “Society of Mind.” This new composition explores the complex relationship between the human mind and music.