Antonis
Christou
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Research
Introduces LIMITER, a gamified digital musical instrument for performing microtonal and justly intonated sounds, combining game-like controls with novel visual composition. Published at NIME 2025.
Exploring how touch and haptic feedback encode information beyond the visual channel in interactive musical systems.
A psychoacoustic study of timbral evolution across time, and its implications for compositional structure in electroacoustic works.
Proposing expanded notation vocabularies for instruments that produce behaviours not captured by traditional staff notation.
About
Antonis Christou is a researcher, composer, and instrument maker in the Opera of the Future group at the MIT Media Lab. His work aims to integrate artificial intelligence techniques with traditional craft and acoustic performance paradigms. An ardent advocate for humane and ethical uses of technology, Antonis aspires to make physical instruments and creative human-AI systems that preserve, rather than destroy, our relationship with the past. Previously, Antonis studied Computing and the Arts at Yale University, graduating Summa Cum Laude. His work has been exhibited internationally at venues including the International Computer Music Conference, the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, and publicly on BBC Radio. His research is generously supported by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program.
antchris@mit.edu