MEDIA COVERAGE OF “A TORONTO SYMPHONY”
- BBC News - Tod Machover: composer’s social media symphony for Toronto (VIDEO)
- CBC – A Toronto Symphony (AUDIO)
- NPR – Scott Simon - Sounds Of Toronto’s Streets Liven Symphony (AUDIO)
- Global News – Full Story – An Urban Symphony (VIDEO)
- The Guardian - Tod Machover: how to crowdsource a symphony
- Toronto Life - The Argument: Musical visionary Tod Machover crowd-sourced a symphony for Toronto—now other cities want one too
- International Arts Manager - Electric dreams: Composer and inventor Tod Machover on music and participatory practice
- Symphony – Going Public (on crowdsourced symphonies) Spring 2013 issue
- Discovery Channel – Daily Planet features “A Toronto Symphony” (VIDEO, starting at 3:00)
- Global News - The Crowd Sourced Symphony: An Aural Tribute to Toronto
- Musical Toronto - News flash: CN Tower to make Toronto Symphony Orchestra début on Saturday night
- Toronto NOW - Tod Machover: What does Toronto sound like anyway?
- Toronto Star - Toronto gets the symphony treatment
- Canadian Jewish News - New symphony features the sounds of Toronto
- Musical Toronto - A Toronto Symphony composer Tod Machover keeps adding interaction weeks before premiere
- Boston Globe - Sounds of a city: A new template for collaboration in Toronto
- Toronto Life – Found Sounds
- Musical Toronto - Toronto school children become engaged composers in Toronto Symphony experiment
- Smart Planet - Q&A: Tod Machover, composer and inventor
- CBC Music - Tod Machover’s music app lets you be part of A Toronto Symphony
- Wired UK - Watch Tod Machover’s full Wired 2012 talk about his Toronto symphony
- PBS MediaShift - How Tod Machover and the City of Toronto Are Creating a Symphony
- The Guardian - The orchestra as mass collaboration
- CBC - Help Tod Machover compose A Toronto Symphony
- CBC Metro Morning – Toronto’s Sound
- Torontoist - Tod Machover Crowdsources a Symphony
- Toronto Life - Guitar Hero brain Tod Machover calls on Torontonians to help compose a musical portrait of the city
- Toronto Standard - What Does Toronto Sound Like?
- Toronto Star - Composer Tod Machover invites Torontonians to create music for the TSO
- Toronto Globe and Mail - TSO to perform a Toronto-made symphony next year
- Toronto Star - Toronto to get its own symphony at the TSO
“Death and the Powers” a Finalist for 2012 Pulitzer Prize in Music
“Death and the Powers doesn’t point the way to a new era of opera. It’s there. Now.” – Philadelphia Inquirer
“Machover is a remarkable composer. [His] technological inventions in giving to sounds, through electronics, new sonorities, new eloquence, have been widely and amply acclaimed. But I’d like to stress what a good opera composer he is, bringing the ‘traditional’, necessary skills to a far from traditional work. Machover has a command of expressive vocal gesture. He sets words sensitively, with a feeling for the natural weight, stress and length of syllables rare today. Voices and instrumental/electronic sound are well balanced. The final duet is a moving modern addition to the great line of father-daughter exchanges: Boccanegra-Amelia, Rigoletto-Gilda, even Wotan- Brünnhilde. This was a grand, rich, deeply serious new opera, presented by a team with manifold coherent accomplishments.” — Opera Magazine 1/11
GENERAL FEATURES
- Fanfare Magazine – Hypercollaborations: An Interview with Tod Machover
- Wired UK - Tod Machover invents instruments, robot operas –- oh, and Guitar Hero
- WBUR – Visionaries: “A Musical Innovator”
- Los Angeles Times Musical therapy is making breakthroughs
- Cannes Lions Seminar on Technology and Creativity (video)
- Prague Quadrennial Magazine – A Composer at the Edge of Sound
- The Guardian (UK) – The MIT factor: celebrating 150 years of maverick genius
- BBC’s Music Matters in Boston – April 23, 2011
- David Harrington of Kronos Quartet speaks about Chomsky-Machover project
- Variety: Smart instruments: Musician’s tools play along with you
- Tod Machover on NPR’s Morning Edition
- TEDx Aldeburgh – a rough guide
- Classical Music Magazine on Aldeburgh project
- Tod’s work at the MIT Media Lab was featured in China’s Lifeweek Magazine
- New York Times Opinionator – On Future Performance
- NewMusicBox – Tod Machover: Technology and the Future of New Music
REVIEWS
- New Creations Festival – Jeux Deux
- Collected reviews of “…but not simpler…”
- Collected reviews of “Hyperstring Trilogy
REVIEWS OF DEATH AND THE POWERS – Selected press quotes Chicago Opera Theater press quotes
- Opera Magazine – Death and the Powers, review by Andrew Porter
- Chicago Tribune – COT’s dazzling ‘robot opera’ poses provocative new questions
- The New York Review of Science Fiction – Death and the Powers
- MAL Music – Death and the Powers
- A tale of two operas: ‘Vincent’ and ‘Death’
- Examiner – Concert Review: Chicago Opera Theater’s Death and the Powers is magnificent
- The Tech – OPERA REVIEW The dawn of the future dramatic art
- The Contrapuntist – Review: DEATH AND THE POWERS, THE ROBOTS’ OPERA by Tod Machover at Chicago Opera Theater
- Chicago Classical Review – COT’s “Death and the Powers” proves a dazzling, thought-provoking multimedia experience
- New City Stage - Review: Death and the Powers/Chicago Opera Theater
- Chicago Critic - Death and the Powers
- Chicago Sun-Times – “Robot opera less than meets the eye”
- Chicago Now – Review “Death and The Powers”: Life-Altering Experience
- Beyond Words – No Dearth of Power (Part 1), Part 2, Part 3
- Media Tech Connection – High tech Chicago opera takes a unique futuristic approach
- Philadelphia Inquirer – Monsters & immortals – seriously
- Wall Street Journal – Full-Bodied Arias in a Postorganic World
- Financial Times - Death and the Powers, Cutler Majestic Theatre, Boston
- Boston Phoenix – Tod Machover’s Death and the Powers
- Cambridge Community TV – Death and the Powers: the Robots’ Opera
- Time Out Boston – Review: Death and the Powers: The Robots’ Opera
- Variety Reviews – Death and the Powers: The Robots’ Opera
- Boston Globe – Second Life: ‘Death and the Powers’ from ART
- Boston Herald -Machover’s ‘Death’ is to die for
- Cape Cod Times – ‘Robots Opera’ brought to life through lights, sound
- Opera News – Review of Death and the Powers
- Opéra Magazine (France) – Review of Death and the Powers (pdf)
- Musical America – “An Unlikely Confluence of Powers”
- International Herald Tribune – “Opera With Atmosphere of Brave New World”
- Le Monde -Des robots et des hommes dans le dernier opéra de Tod Machover
- Ventimiglia: Death & the Powers: Flash d’Immagini dal Futuro
FEATURE COVERAGE OF DEATH AND THE POWERS
- Technology Review - Opera, Remixed: My UROP in the Opera of the Future lab
- BBC World Service – The Strand March 15, 2011
- Discovery Channel Canada – Daily Planet feature on Death and the Powers
- Chicago Tonight – WTTW – March 31, 2011
- Chicago Tribune -Cue the robots – opera for the digital era arrives at COT
- Chicago Classical Review – Machover’s “robot opera” to kick off Chicago Opera Theater’s season
- StyleBoston WCVB-TV Plugged In: Feature on Death and the Powers
- The Boston Musical Intelligencer – Machover, Touching with Sound
- The Boston Phoenix - Preview: Love and Robots in Death and the Powers: The Robots’ Opera
- Boston Globe -Powered up and programmed to perform: Chorus of robots in a starring role
- Variety – Opera of the future: Robotic and music combo gives audience something new
- NPR Science Friday – High-Tech Opera Features Robots as Stars
- The Atlantic – “Guitar Hero Goes to the Opera: How the video game’s godfather plans to democratize one of the oldest musical art forms”
- NPR On Point with Tom Ashbrook - “Robot Opera and Immortality”
- Christian Science Monitor – “A thoroughly modern opera: Robots enter a new frontier“
- New Vilna Review – “Music, Technology and Immortality: an Interview with Composer and MIT Professor, Tod Machover”
- The Economist video: Inventing the Opera of the Future
- The Economist – “A Technology maestro”
- PlumTV – “Masters of Innovation: Creativity Wired”
- New Scientist – Musical inventor: The robotic set of my opera emotes
- Buhnen Technische Rundschau – Death and the Powers: A Robot Opera (in German)
- New Vilna Review - “Pinsky and Machover Bring Shadow and Light to NCAC Event”
- Jewish Advocate – “A meeting of mavericks of poetry and music“
- l’Ordinateur individuel-SVM – “Tod Machover: Créateur d’Hyperinstruments“
- Revista Galileu (Brazil) – “Opéra Hero” (pdf)
- The Sunday Times (London) – “Opera gets a Machover”
- NPR – “Back Stage at A High-Tech Opera”
- WBUR – “Q&A: Opera Of The Future, Starring (What Else?) Robots!”
- MIT News – “Disembodied performance”
- Popular Science - MIT’s Opera of the Future Features Singing Walls and Dancing Robots
- Playboy – “2010 Honor Roll List”
- Bowers & Wilkins – “The future of surround sound”
- Big Think – A First in Theater: Robots Performing Opera
- Wired – “Orchestral manoeuvres with ‘Death and the Powers’”
- La Gazette de Monaco – Monaco et le MIT
- BU Today – “Robot, of Thee I Sing: Pinsky’s words help put technology in innovative opera.”
- BBC News – “Is music going back to its roots?“
- Nature – Interview with Tod Machover
- Boston Magazine – “Genius Composition: How professor Tod Machover and a group of MIT scientists are creating the future of music. “
- Smithsonian – “Tod Machover on Composing Music by Computer“
- Scienceline – Echoes from the Future of Opera
- NPR - Tod Machover’s New Opera
MEDIA RELEASES
- PRWeb – Robotic Opera Wrestles with Love and Death
- PRWeb – “New Robot Opera Explodes Boundaries”
- Promotional Trailer
- Kirshbaum Demler – Death and the Powers: The Latest Opera from Tod Machover
MORE COVERAGE OF DEATH AND THE POWERS
- Chicago Tribune - Adventurous times for classical music lover
- Chicago Classical Review - The Top 10 Performances of 2011
- high SCORE New Music Center - The medium is the message in Tod Machover’s opera ‘Death and the Powers
- Eternal Arigato, Mr. Roboto
- Medill Reports – ‘Death and the Powers’ takes operatic look at immortality
- Examiner – ‘Operabots’ spice up MIT’s ‘Death and the Powers’ opera
- Blast – Stage Review: “Death and the Powers: The Robots’ Opera” from the A.R.T.
- Metro – ‘Death and the Powers’: Farewell to conventional theater
- PC World – MIT Robots Take Stage In New Opera
- City’s Best Boston – ‘Death and the Powers’: A Robot Opera By Tod Machover
- Robot Living – Death And The Powers: The Robots’ Opera
- Wicked Local – Waltham resident’s opera has tech in tune
- Chicago Journal – “Musical Machinery: Will machines get smarter than people? New opera sings the question”
- Stuff at Night – “Robo Roles”
- Musical America Yearly Directory
- New Vilna Review – An Interview with Robert Pinsky
- Duran Audio – Death and the Powers Monaco: MIT teams up with AXYS for a Royal Premiere in Monaco
- Animation World Network – A Night at the High-Tech Opera
- Bowers & Wilkins – Tod Machover’s robotic opera premieres in Monte Carlo
- Boosey & Hawkes – Machover: Death and the Powers premiere in Monte Carlo
- Vimeo – iPad Opera live mix “Death and the Powers”
- David V. Lu’s blog – Operabots are Go: Death and the Powers
- Post Position/Nick Monfort – Death and the Powers arrives
- TED Blog - Tod Machover talks about his new robotic opera, Death and the Powers
- GearLog – The Singularity. In Opera Form. With Robots.
- Cool-O-Rama -Death and the Powers World Premiere
- Slice of MIT - Death and the Powers: The Future of Music
- Monaco City Out – Death and the Powers to premiere in Monte Carlo
- Consulate General of Monaco - Monaco’s Fall Energy Summit with M.I.T. to Focus on the Future
- World Science Festival - Death and the Powers is here
- Gizmodo - Robot Opera Is Less Madame Butterfly, More “Oops I Dropped a Butterfly Screw”
- Playbill – Diane Paulus and Karole Armitage Collaborating on Death and the Powers Opera
- Brian Dickie’s blog: More about Death and the Powers
- Fast Company – 5 High-Tech Operas that Radically Transform the Stage
- Chicago Tribune -Opera Theater puts innovation on calendar
- A.R.T. – Death and the Powers Workshop
- Aspen Institute (video) – Transforming Music: Tod Machover
- Networked Music -Hyperinstruments, Sonitronics, and Musical Propulsion
TWITTER BUZZ!
SallaSavolainen: anyone in america, go see an opera called “Death and the Powers” !!! i was in the world premiere in monaco. just fyi. GO !
carolbeggy: Chicago Opera Theater’s Brian Dickie is still beaming from Death And the Powers premiere in Monaco. See you in March:
cacestlamusique: DEATH and the POWERS in Monte Carlo, Monaco: An outstanding and robotic world premiere!
SELECTED ARTICLES ABOUT TOY SYMPHONY
October 30th, 2010 at 1:10 pm
Not much buzz.
October 31st, 2010 at 4:31 pm
Ha ha ha Jim! There’s a big review coming out soon. So far it’s been the Intl Herald Tribune, Musical America and Le Monde articles and a couple meaty features about the technology and design, and a bit of action on Twitter.
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