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 …
Multimedia opera on NPR
Fun NPR Morning Edition piece this past weekend on Yuval Sharon's multimedia production of "Cunning Little Vixen" with the Cleveland Orchestra, including some comments by our own Tod Machover about DEATH AND THE POWERS and opera+technology in general. Great food for thought! Listen to the program here: 'The Cunning Little Vixen' Pokes Her Head Into An Animated Forest
“A big work with big ideas” – Opera News review
A pleasant surprise arrived in the mail this week: Opera News in its May 2014 issue gives the Dallas Opera's production of Tod Machover's "Death and the Powers" a glowing review. Writer Andrew Sigler praises the opera as "a big work with big ideas," and notes that "Machover brings to bear his considerable technical prowess …
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Simulcast gets thumbs up from Opera
Opera magazine reviewed the interactive simulcast of "Death and the Powers" and pronounced that this experiment in using smartphone technology to enhance the cinematic viewing experience has "huge potential for the technologically engaged operatic culture that Machover continues to pioneer." Read the full review here.
Bowers & Wilkins on Vocal Vibrations
Bowers & Wilkins has posted a blog article that details the role of their technology in "Vocal Vibrations". The immersive installation featuring music by composer Tod Machover and design by Neri Oxman opened on March 27th at Le Laboratoire in Paris. The project examines the relationship between human physiology and the resonant vibrations of voice. Vocal …
Opera of the Future 