From Tod Machover's Facebook: Just did a live interview on BBC Scotland for my FESTIVAL CITY project for the Edinburgh International Festival. We talked about the idea of collecting sounds of the city, mixing those with music, and the hosts had even made their own collage of Edinburgh sounds for me to listen to. You …
Things are heating up in Edinburgh!
Tod was in Edinburgh at the end of May to launch 'Cauldron', the latest app for his collaborative symphony orchestra project commissioned by the Edinburgh International Festival. He met with hundreds of school kids, was serenaded by bagpipes (which he now professes a new fondness for), and explored the vast network of subterranean tunnels underneath …
Tod Machover to speak at University of Toronto
Tod Machover will be back in Toronto on Thursday, May 9, to give a talk at the Jackman Humanities Institute of the University of Toronto at 5pm. He will be speaking about A TORONTO SYMPHONY, related projects, and the future (!). If you're in town that day, go and check it out! For details, see Mediated …
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Tod Machover to speak on “Democratic Excellence”
MIT Media Lab professor and composer Tod Machover will be delivering a public lecture on Saturday, April 27th, at the American Philosophical Society's meeting in Philadelphia. Scheduled for the morning session, chaired by Linda Greenhouse, the talk is titled "Democratic Excellence: New Models of Musical Collaboration." For the full program, click here. Remaining true to the …
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Global TV documentary on “A Toronto Symphony”
The Global TV documentary on A Toronto Symphony aired last week. It shows many pivotal behind-the-scenes moments in the creation of the piece. We hear Tod is working on a video compilation that will include more music. In the meantime, you can watch this documentary by clicking here. (Correction: We have replaced the incorrect link …
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The Other Festival at the MIT Media Lab – April 20, 2013
Coming next Saturday at the MIT Media Lab! Open to the community. Download the flyer here: The Other Festival.
Interview on BBC Scotland (AUDIO)
From Tod Machover's Facebook page: Did a fun live interview today on BBC Radio Scotland about my new Edinburgh "Festival City" collaborative symphony project. It was for a brand new show - The Culture Studio with Janice Forsyth - that premiered...today! My segment starts at 1:34:00 and runs to the end of the show http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01rlrmh. There is also a …
Chamber Music America Keynote (VIDEO)
Tod Machover's keynote lecture from the annual Chamber Music America Conference (January 18, 2013) has just been posted online. Among other things, he discusses chamber music as an ideal context to imagine and create a subtle, intimate, human-scaled future for technology, in the arts and beyond.
Festival City blog
The official blog for Tod Machover's newest project, "Festival City", has just been launched. Please visit and sign up for updates! "Festival City" is an orchestral work commissioned by the 2013 Edinburgh International Festival. It will receive its world premiere on August 27, 2013, by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra.
The Daily Planet discovers “A Toronto Symphony”
The Discovery Channel's Daily Planet program visits Toronto for an inside look at "A Toronto Symphony". Watch the video here (between 3:00-6:00, roughly)!
Opera of the Future 