It's a wednesday afternoon in the dark, gargantuan basement of the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, Mass. Tod Machover-composer, professor and mad scientist-would like you to sit in the Sensor Chair. "You're completing an electric circuit," he says. Which doesn't make you feel any better. You raise your arm-and get a drumroll. You wave both arms, and suddenly you're playing a full Percussion set, or two, or 20. With a minor adjustment, your slightest movement sets off an orchestra. This, says Machover, is how "life becomes art."
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