"...this CD provides an ideal opportunity to savor the richness, subtlety, variety and originality of Machover’s music..." The world premiere recording of Tod Machover’s large-scale and highly acclaimed “robotic” opera, Death and the Powers, set to a libretto by U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky, is being released today by the Grammy Award-winning BMOP/sound, known as …
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The Volksoper Wien has confirmed that its production of Tod Machover's Schoenberg in Hollywood, originally scheduled for April 2020 but postponed because of the COVID-19 pandemic, is on the calendar for its 2022 season. This will be the European premier of Machover's 2018 work, in a new production in the heart of Vienna, the city …
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Sorta Voce was commissioned by cellist Matt Haimovitz as part of his new “Primavera Project,” and will appear on the first CD release of the project on the PENTATONE label in June 2021. Haimovitz’s project is a collaboration of music and art inspired by one of the most widely admired and enigmatic paintings of the Renaissance, Botticelli’s Primavera (ca 1480), …
We are pleased to announce that the legendary soprano, Renée Fleming, will be premiering Tod Machover's new work, VocaGammified, at a Cal Performances recital on April 29th. The piece - written especially for Renée - is for voice, string quartet and electronics, and is based on Gamma research from MIT showing that certain forms of …
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https://youtu.be/koBcB9mhon0 The Kronos Quartet has posted a special website featuring Tod Machover's composition "Gammified," which they commissioned in 2019 as part of their "Fifty for the Future" series. The composition is based on Media Lab research into the reparative effects of 40 Hz. audio signals on the brain. The site includes a new Kronos recording for string quartet and electronics; the …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDGHHqnFNq0 Check out this new interview with Tod Machover from Musical America's "unscripted series. It's a light-hearted, informal chat about musical influences, unusual projects, and behind-the-scenes stories.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXfXy771K8w Chomsky Suite (2011) was composed by Tod Machover for Noam Chomsky and the Kronos Quartet as part of the FAST Festival in celebration of MIT’s 150th anniversary. It was premiered at MIT’s Kresge Auditorium on April 11, 2011 during the Festival’s New Music Marathon, curated by Evan Ziporyn. Machover says of the work: “I …
Three major pieces by Tod Machover will be streamed internationally over the next week: CHOMSKY SUITE on May 8 at 7PM, A TORONTO SYMPHONY on May 9 at 7PM, and PHILADELPHIA VOICES on May 16 at 8PM (all US EDT).
The April 2020 performances of Schoenberg in Hollywood have been cancelled because Vienna is on lockdown and all theaters, museums, and public venues are closed until further notice. However, the great news is that the Vienna Volksoper informed us yesterday that the new production has been rescheduled for the beginning of the 2021/2022 season. We …
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Here's a fascinating article published by American Cinematographer in March, 1995, covering a Media Lab symposium on "Digital Expression." A star-studded panel, including Quincy Jones, Peter Sellars, Peter Gabriel, Jane Alexander, and Laurie Anderson, discussed how interactive digital technology might transform the arts, break down barriers, and transform the relationship between artists and audiences. Many …
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