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Hailed as a “musical visionary” and “America’s most wired composer,” inventor, composer, professor, and Faculty Director of the MIT Media Lab Tod Machover will deliver the address for the Peabody Conservatory’s 2026 Graduation ceremonies on Wednesday, May 20. Machover will attend both the morning ceremony for undergraduates and the afternoon ceremony for graduate students, and will receive the George Peabody Medal for Outstanding Contributions to Music and Dance in America, the highest honor bestowed by the Peabody …

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We're sharing a pair for great recent interviews about Tod Machover's "Schoenberg in Hollywood" in the lead-up to the opera's upcoming premiere in Los Angeles – an artistic homecoming for the revolutionary Viennese composer who found refuge there from World War II Europe. The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music has posted Walking that Line …

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If you're in the Boston area on March 13, come check out Moving Music, a presentation of two unusual premieres created at – and performed in – the MIT Media Lab. Here...NOW by Ana Schon invites audiences to voyage through the Media Lab building, exploring the relationship between space-and-sound. MAICE by Tod Machover is an exploration of the power and limits …

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Professor Tod Machover Honored by the French Culture Ministry as Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters (from MIT Media Lab). Professor Tod Machover, head of the Opera of the Future group, has been awarded the rank of Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters by the Cultural Ministry of France. In the …

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Commissioned and Performed by Sejong Soloists Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea August 24, 2024Information about the performance HERE.

Follow the creation of "Every Thing Has Its Limits for/with Glass Cymbals." on CONFLUENCE, premiering this month on PBS. Watch the CONFLUENCE trailer. Tod Machover's process of experimentation with "glass cymbals" was designed especially for the new three-part series CONFLUENCE, which  explores the enduring and surprising connections between the arts and the fields of science, …

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On Friday, March 8 at 7:30 pm, Tod Machover will be presenting a concert/lecture at Concord (MA) Conservatory of Music on Music & Invention. Curated to explore diverse aspects of invention in music - technological, compositional and conceptual - the program will demonstrate how different composers have changed the way we listen as well as reconsidered who creates music and how. The concert features works …

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