Artist

Maria Finkelmeier x MadLabs

Exhibit Dates

Melody Figments

Symbolizing expressions of the human touch as music is manifested, Melody Figments are created as one explores melody, rhythm, and movement while playing a marimba. Using gesture and musical pitch as data, a visual web grows, undulates, and breathes with the crowd-sourced performance.

About the artist:

Named a “one-woman dynamo” by The Boston Globe, Maria Finkelmeier is a percussionist, composer, new media artist, and Associate Professor of Creative Entrepreneurship at Berklee College of Music. Obsessed with making noise, she transformed Fenway Park into a percussive playground and turned the Roebling Bridge into a sound and light instrument. She's used AI to investigate gender bias through music, flipped a bus into a mobile electronic bucket drumming program, and performed at iconic global venues such as Carnegie Hall, the Smithsonian, and Théâtre des Champs-Elysées. Her cutting-edge work has been featured in The Boston Globe, National Parks Magazine, Boston Magazine, Vulture, Sun Sentinel, I CARE IF YOU LISTEN, and on WGBH, WBUR, and CBS. She is the founder of the experimental music, art, and technology studio, MF Dynamics, and is a Yamaha Performing Artist. 

From Dania Beach, FL, MadLabs is a united assembly of visionary intellects, a covert congregation of creative technologists who refuse to be bound by the confines of convention. Their work exists at the intersection of art and technology, resonating in a world driven by innovation and fueling the engine of progress with an unrelenting passion for the future. MadLabs offers a wide range of capabilities unmatched in the industry — from a cutting-edge Vicon motion capture system and 3D content production to hardware services with projection mapping and LED panels.

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