Check out Tod Machover's letter to the editor of the Boston Globe, in response to a recent Globe article "Boston overdue for a proper opera house": With a clean slate, with the leadership of BLO and others, and with the participation of the area’s vital artistic and academic communities, Boston could design and build the …
Brazilian TV spot on Lucerne Symphony project
This clip just appeared on Brazilian TV (Cultura TV, São Paulo) about Tod Machover's LUCERNE SYMPHONY project. They interviewed Tod a few weeks ago when he was at the LUCERNE FESTIVAL, and this has some nice footage and sound of what the team did (and are doing) over there. So check it out and practice your Portugese!!!
Slide show from REMIX Summit
From Tod Machover's Facebook page: Gave a Keynote yesterday at the REMIX Summit in NYC, hosted by Bloomberg. Heard some great presentations from the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, Jake Barton of Local Projects, Cindy Gallop of IfWeRanTheWorld, and many others. Saw many old friends and met new ones. And was astonished at the exciting, fresh Bloomberg HQs …
Deutsche Welle on Lucerne Festival (Video)
Excellent TV piece on the LUCERNE FESTIVAL by Deutsche Welle, Germany's equivalent of the BBC World Service. A segment on the SYMPHONY FOR LUCERNE project starts at 3:40. Check it out - and practice your German - at http://www.dw.de/take-five-folge-4-lucerne-festival/av-17890526
Pictures from Lucerne
Tod Machover is in Lucerne, Switzerland, for ten days to begin work on "A Symphony for Lucerne." He's running around meeting many different groups in the city, auditioning musicians and recording the "sounds of Lucerne." There was a nice notice in the New York Times about Tod's residency for the 2015 Lucerne Festival.
Tod Machover named Composer in Residence for 2015 Lucerne Festival
Via Kirshbaum Demler and Associates Tod Machover, composer, inventor and MIT Media Lab Professor, has been named Lucerne Festival’s 2015 Composer in Residence. As he has done for the cities of Perth, Edinburgh and Toronto, Machover will compose a collaborative symphony for the city of Lucerne to capture its life, spirit and culture in music. Beginning …
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Packing up for Lucerne
In a couple of days Tod Machover will be flying to Lucerne Switzerland to dig into his next "City Symphony" project, a new orchestral work commissioned by the Lucerne Festival. "A Symphony for Lucerne" will premiere on 5 September 2015, performed by the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY Orchestra, conducted by Matthias Pintscher. Please visit the project …
“Vocal Vibrations” Excerpt
Images and music excerpts from the Paris premiere of "Vocal Vibrations," by Tod Machover and Neri Oxman.
A Symphony for Perth
Between the Desert and the Deep Blue Sea: A Symphony for Perth was composed from October 2013 to February 2014 for Carolyn Kuan and the West Australian Symphony Orchestra, on commission from the Perth International Arts Festival. The 25-minute work is a musical, sonic portrait of Perth and surrounding areas, and was created in collaboration …
LOFT on Opera Simulcast
Here's a preview of this handsome article and interview published by the Swedish design magazine LOFT: DALLAS OPERA’s SIMULCAST – Tod Machover’s Death and the Powers Slowly another part of me emerges and takes in the theatre, the darkness, and the spectators’ faces dimly lit from screens on their laps. I tap my screen and a graphical …
