Manaswi Mishra is a sound artist and PhD researcher in the Opera of the Future research group, MIT Media Lab. His research explores strategies and frameworks for a new creative age of composing, performing and learning music using A.I. centered around bespoke human and cultural intent. Manaswi’s research on creating novel A.I. Lutherie can be seen in the development and performance of Operas like VALIS (2023), FLOW Symphony (2024, premiered in Seoul Arts Center) and exhibitions across the world (IFA Stuttgart ‘24, Burning Man ‘23, Boston tech poetics, Algorave India, Ljubljana Biennale 2025, NoiseNoiseNoise India). His work on AI music performance and copyright law has been published and exhibited in the MIT Press, Harvard Tech Review, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Conferences of Computational Creativity, ISEA Brisbane, CVPR 2024, Copyright Society 2023, Bloomberg Law etc. He also holds an MS in Media Arts and Sciences (MIT, 2021), MS in music technology (UPF, Barcelona) and a BTech (IITM, India). He is the founding instigator of the Music Tech Community in India organizing curricula, workshops, hackathons, conferences and community events across India.