Wired UK posted this excellent article today that provides an in-depth look at the Festival City project. Included are detailed descriptions of how the music apps work. We loved this: To compose Festival City, which Machover hopes will bring out the contrasts of the city, Machover first invited people to submit raw material that reminded of …
New York Times features Opera of the Future
The M.I.T. Media Lab Opera of the Future group's work is the subject of a full-page article by Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim in the August 16th issue of the New York Times. It's an engagingly written piece that covers the history of Tod Machover's work in music composition and technology, from hyperinstruments to "Death and the …
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Repertoire Remix (VIDEO)
Last month, composer Tod Machover joined an online audience together with pianist Tae Kim in an experience that fused Web-based interaction with a live piano performance. This demo centered on the Cauldron app built at the Media Lab for the "Festival City" project commissioned by the Edinburgh International Festival. The app is populated with the sounds of …
What to see in Edinburgh
This guide from The Scotsman and WOW247 highlights its top 13 picks from the Edinburgh International Festival. "Festival City" gets a nice shout out... Yay! 13 stand-out shows at the Edinburgh International Festival The RSNO perform a suite of works inspired by “film noir, big-band jazz and the movies of David Lynch”, which includes a world premiere …
Festival City is on its way…
Tod has finished the score to FESTIVAL CITY and sent it to the Edinburgh International Festival. Read notes on the piece here. Information about the August 27th premiere is available here. Now he just has to finish all the electronics!!! Cover, first and last pages show below!
Warming up for Dallas
A photo from Death and the Powers is featured this Sunday in the Arts & Leisure section of The New York Times, in an article about technology and opera in composer David Lang's new work. Great way to spark interest in the performance coming up at the Dallas Opera (which will be streamed worldwide) in …
Festival City just went out the door!
Tod shipped off the score for "Festival City" yesterday!! Not that he can head to the beach just yet. There's still "lots of electronics to make, stuff to tweak, rehearsals to do before then! Exciting though...", he posted on his Facebook page. His latest collaborative orchestral work premieres at the Edinburgh International Festival on August …
Join our interactive live-stream event Tuesday, July 9th!!
REPERTOIRE REMIX Special Interactive Improvisation Session for Tod Machover's Festival City Commissioned by the Edinburgh International Festival Created at the MIT Media Lab Hosted by The Guardian Composer Tod Machover is in the midst of creating a "collaborative symphony" called Festival City, to be premiered on August 27th at the Edinburgh International Festival. The work is a sonic portrait …
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St. Louis Gateway Arch
From Tod Machover's Facebook page: Perhaps the most perfect public monument I have ever seen, far more impressive and indelible in person - because of the site, subtleties and significance - than in iconography. It was Eero Saarinen's first independent commission; he had worked in tandem with his father before that, and he beat out his dad for this …
Tod Machover on the role of the artist in today’s hyperconnected world
Tod Machover spoke at the end of May to an audience of art students at ArtEZ studium in the Netherlands. Here's an excerpt of a conversation he had with the moderator: "Part of role of an artist is to think about your connections to other people."
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