This just in from Tod: Sorry for the late notice, but I thought you might be interested in a talk I am giving tomorrow evening, June 27, at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. I'll be interviewed by John Hollar, Director of the museum, and we'll cover a range of topics from Hyperinstruments, …
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The "A Toronto Symphony" project is receiving some nice media attention! The CBC's popular morning radio program, Metro Morning, aired an interview with composer and project mastermind Tod Machover on the morning of June 14. Click here to listen. The Toronto Star has invited its readers to send in their "sounds of Toronto" and plans to report …
Wow! What an invigorating and wonderful experience to hear Tod and eight musicians from the Toronto Symphony Orchestra get up on the ideacity stage on Thursday and perform brand-new music, created as the cornerstone for the Concerto for Composer and Orchestra. As Tod explained to the ideacity audience, he composed a chord progression one week ago, …
A Toronto Symphony Composer Tod Machover's project with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, "A Toronto Symphony: Concerto for Composer and City", was officially launched today at the ideacity conference 2012. In the trailer video above, Tod explains that the composition will consist of "Me, You and (H)ours" - music based on what he sends out to …
A one-stop shop for performing organizations interested in Tod Machover's "Another Life," a work for instrumental ensemble and electronics. " This piece revisits some of the musical concerns of [Machover's] own youth with the resources and experience of maturity; it is about personal expression, full of exuberance and regret, nostalgia and celebration." - Richard Dyer, The …
Tod Machover's A Toronto Symphony project will officially launch in Toronto on June 14 at ideacity, billed as "‘Canada’s Premier Meeting of the Minds’...an eclectic gathering of artists, adventurers, authors, cosmologists, doctors, designers, entertainers, filmmakers, inventors, magicians, musicians, scientists and technologists." Joined by musicians from the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Tod will present the overall concept …
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The popular technology blog Gizomodo sent an intrepid reporter to try out the enhanced Sleep No More experience during its beta test run. The result is this rich description of getting lost inside the creepy McKittrick Hotel. Donning a mask that on occasion transmits urgent, mysterious messages to her, she slowly realizes that the set …
We stumbled across another excellent review of Tod Machover's latest CD "...but not simpler..." on AllMusic.com. They totally get what the music is about: ...Machover never loses sight of the emotional side of music that engages the listener naturally, viscerally...For anyone who is tempted to dismiss all modern music as "strange" or inaccessible, this album will prove …
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