Composer Tod Machover addressed the class of 2016 at the Bienen School of Music convocation June 18. Recently named 2016 Composer of the Year by Musical America, Machover has been called “America’s most wired composer” by The Los Angeles Times and a “musical visionary” by The New York Times. He is widely recognized as one …
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The music world has been abuzz with news about Yannick Nézet-Séguin's appointment as music director of the Metropolitan Opera. He will succeed James Levine, who has served in that role for four decades. Simultaneously, the 41-year-old Québécois conductor has also renewed his contract as music director for the Philadelphia Orchestra. In its press release, the Philadelphia Orchestra …
Tod Machover will be speaking on "Hyperinstruments, Robotic Operas, and City Symphonies" this Sunday, May 22, at Moogfest 2016. According to the festival's website, "Moogfest is a tribute to Dr. Robert Moog and the profound influence his inventions have had on how we hear the world. Over the last sixty years, Bob Moog and Moog Music have …
Composer Tod Machover will be giving a Keynote Talk called MUSIC, MEDICINE AND MEANING at the Mt.Sinai-Louis Armstrong Center symposium "Turned On, Tuned In" in NYC on May 2. Inspired by Marvin Minsky's seminal paper "Music, Mind and Meaning," Machover will be building on the Opera of The Future group's recent work in music, mind and …
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You may interested in this public discussion - called Boundaries of the Possible - that composer Tod Machover will be having with biologist and new MIT Media Lab faculty member Kevin Esvelt. Part of the Catalyst Conversations series and co-hosted by MIT’s List Visual Arts Center, it will be held at the Media Lab Complex's Bartos Theater, 20 Ames …
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From Remembering Marvin Minsky: Marvin loved music and it was a central part of his life. He grew up as a piano prodigy, but especially as a “thinker” about music. He understood music’s great pull on our emotions, and this made him curious, even suspicious. (He once asked me: “What right does Schumann have to order …
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From Tod Machover's Facebook page: Pierre Boulez - the great French composer, conductor and visionary (both imaginary and institutional) - died yesterday at the age of 90. Here is Paul Griffiths' excellent obituary in The New York Times, which covers a great deal of Boulez's career but does not mention his singular association with the …
For your listening pleasure, here's an excellent version of the "Symphony in D" recording. And here's a new press release just out about the symphony and Tod Machover's "Composer of the Year" award. "Imagination is the strongest tool we have. The reason that we make music is of course to reach our audiences, but also …
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Tod Machover was honored last night as Composer of the Year by Musical America in a ceremony at Carnegie Hall. In his article on Machover's award, music critic Mark Swed wrote, "A true futurist understands the past and thinks about things to come, but the real work is to make the moment matter. At Lucerne, Machover …
Here's a 5-minute audio clip just released from the BBC World Service that presents the highlights from the full 12-minute interview about SYMPHONY IN D - recently premiered with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra - that was broadcast last weekend. Good way to hear a discussion about (and sounds from) the project without scrolling through a …
