No rest for the weary! This just in from the Edinburgh Festival: A crowd sourced orchestral work by boundary breaker Tod Machover is just one of the many highlights of this year’s Edinburgh International Festival programme. Set over three weeks this August, the EIF’s line-up includes an homage to Allen Ginsberg with Philip Glass and Patti Smith; a new commission from experimental …
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Check out this wonderful interview with David Almond on the BBC's Desert Island Discs series. David discusses children's literature and the music he'd want if he were a castaway. Thirty minutes into the interview he talks about the opera version of Skellig, on which he collaborated with composer Tod Machover. Here's what BBC program says about …
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Saturday evening saw the successful debut of Tod Machover's "A Toronto Symphony", described aptly by conductor Peter Oundjian in this BBC News interview as "the most collaborative piece of music that has ever been written." Nearly a year in the making, the new work was commissioned by the Toronto Symphony for its New Creations Festival. …
Check out the CBC's MetroMorning interview with Tod Machover. Click here. Toronto Symphony Orchestra conductor Peter Oundjian and composer Tod Machover talk about the genesis of Toronto's new "crowdsourced" symphony. Sneak preview of "A Toronto Symphony" in rehearsal. Read the story and watch the video by clicking here -> A Toronto Symphony: CN Tower light show …
The Opera of the Future team has been sleepless in Toronto, frantically finishing the audio and visuals that will accompany the world premiere of "A Toronto Symphony" whilst squeezing in rehearsals in between New Creations Festival performances. Tickets are available here. The spectacle will spill out beyond the confines of Roy Thomson Hall to take …
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From Tod Machover's Facebook profile: Terrific launch to the New Creations Festival at the Toronto Symphony last evening. Great crowd (with lots of young people), fun pre-show with Youth Symphony giving excerpts of my A TORONTO SYMPHONY, varied show with my "Jeux Deux", Nicole Lizee's classic videogame-inspired "Arcadiac", and Mason Bates' rocking, resonant "Alternative Energy." …
The Toronto Symphony's New Creations Festival opens today! With Machover as guest-curator, the 2013 New Creations Festival takes a suitably technology-driven perspective, exploring the evolution of music from past to future with a selection of boundary-bending works which bring the past to the present and redefines the instruments of an orchestra. The Festival opens with the …
In case you are wondering why Tod didn't emerge from his barn-studio for the past two months, he was busy orchestrating "A Toronto Symphony." In this new SoundNotion interview, Tod explains his work process, along with sundry other hot topics from the Media Lab and Opera of the Future. (The interview was recorded over Skype, and you …
Mark your calendars! San Francisco's public radio TV station KQED will be airing a one-hour-long interview with Tod Machover this week. Here's the scoop: Transforming Music Meet musician and inventor Tod Machover, the creator of technologies behind "Guitar Hero" and "Rock Band." Computer History Museum's John Hollar speaks to the influential composer, whose work has been performed internationally, …
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