CantoVario® can change the way people interact with and create music.
Developed by Diana Dabby, CantoVario® has its origins in her MIT doctoral thesis
(“Musical Variations from a Chaotic Mapping”, 1996).
Featured on WBUR-FM (2004), NPR's Weekend Edition (2007), in
Science (2008),
the Boston Globe (2013),
and numerous concerts and lectures, her work has received five patents, most recently 9286876, 9286877, 10614785, and 11024276.
Currently under development with the MIT Venture Mentoring Service, CantoVario® has been awarded grants by the National Science Foundation
(Innovation Corps #1924305 and Partnerships for Innovation—Technology Transfer #1941526), and the Olin College Summer Research Program.
Outside of CantoVario®, Diana Dabby is
a Founding Faculty Member, Professor of Electrical Engineering & Music, and Music Program Director at Olin College of Engineering.
She has taught courses at Tufts University, MIT, Juilliard, and recently became a
Harvard-Radcliffe Fellow as part of its 25th Anniversary Fellowship Class 2024-25.
As a kid, she liked electric trains, and still does to this day.
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