Friends sent Tod this video of the explosive opening of "Fasnacht" in Lucerne yesterday. "Can't wait to get there on Monday," Tod posted on his Facebook page. "ope I can make it." He has good reason to worry. The meteorologists are predicting another 13-16 inches of snow in Boston over the weekend. Do you have …
February notes: Back from Detroit
Tod Machover posted: Just back from a couple of days in Detroit for the next installment of workshops, meetings, presentations, and generally-intense-and-beautiful-experiences that are all part of the crazy mix that will become SYMPHONY IN D with the Detroit Symphony in November (2015). What a powerful city, full of vivid and passionate people, architectural richness …
Livestream from Davos
Tod Machover will be presenting the Closing Concert at this year's World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The concert will be livestreamed at 17:45PM Central European Time (11:45AM U.S. EST). Watch here.
Teaser for final concert at World Economic Forum
Composer Tod Machover and creative studio Artisan will close the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum with a powerful multimedia performance celebrating the spirit of dialogue and reminding us of our collective responsibility. Here's a teaser to whet your appetite:
Machover to lead closing concert at World Economic Forum
Tod Machover will be presenting the Closing Performance at the World Economic Forum in Davos on January 24, and giving several other presentations and demonstrations about CITY SYMPHONIES and VOCAL VIBRATIONS. Full info on the WEF Arts Program here.
Great interview with The Flute View
Check out this terrific interview Barbara Seisel did with Tod Machover about his recently premiered flute concerto, "Breathless." The article, temporarily available online to nonsubscribers, provides an in-depth look at how the piece was created. Tod talks about how he collaborated with flutist Carol Wincenc, and how he thought about using electronics, how the three-movement …
“Death and the Powers” makes Top 10 list!
The Dallas Morning News has ranked the Dallas Opera's February 2014 production of "Death and the Powers" one of its "Classical music: Top 10 performances of 2014." Reviewer Scott Cantrell writes: Tod Machover’s sci-fi opera, dividing a cast of characters between known reality and some sort of parallel existence, was quite a stretch for a company …
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I hear Lucerne – Episode 3
Tod's third post on the I Hear Lucerne blog is up! He brings you inside his journey to explore the Swiss city of Lucerne. From his visit, several themes begin to emerge. Tod also describes an extraordinary workshop involving the people of Lucerne and three very different artists: That same afternoon, we presented a workshop at the …
WKAR interviews Tod Machover on Detroit project
Excellent interview today on Michigan State's NPR radio station. Thoughtful questions by host Scott Pohl about our SYMPHONY IN D project for Detroit. Listen here: "Symphony in D" to feature the sounds of the Motor City
Xploration Earth segment features Opera of the Future
Fun TV segment about the Opera of the Future group's work on FOX TV's "Exploration Earth 2050", which aired this past Saturday and is now available on Hulu. The second half of the show - starting at ca. 10:00 - is about DEATH AND THE POWERS, the new Sensor Chair, and other music, technology, and …
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