From Tod Machover - Just read the news that Elliott Carter passed away today, a month short of his 104th birthday. What a big loss, what an inspiring life. I was lucky enough to study with Elliott at Juilliard and have always considered him my mentor. He remained imaginative, brilliant, searching and expanding to the …
Inside the technology for “Death and the Powers”
M.I.T. Media Lab graduate student Peter Torpey, a key collaborator in Tod Machover's opera "Death and the Powers," has published an in-depth paper detailing the opera's groundbreaking technology in the International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media. It's a must-read for anyone interested in interactive performance technology for live theater and music. You can …
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Tod Machover at Wired 2012
Tod spoke yesterday at Wired 2012, a conference curated by Wired UK magazine to "explore the ideas, innovations and people that are reshaping our world." The magazine's write-up about Tod's presentation is now available online and quotes some remarks about the current project in Toronto: "When Toronto Symphony Orchestra asked me to write a symphony, I …
Fanfare Review of “…but not simpler…”
"...But Not Simpler..." is on the cover of the current issue of Fanfare magazine. Fanfare also houses a collection of articles about Tod Machover's music. Here's a terrific interview by Carson Cooman that provides excellent background on Tod's work along with some interesting observations. We like this: Whatever the next directions his work takes, there’s no …
Music and Media at U Missouri (Photos)
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Vocal Vibrations (Video)
Post by Elly Jessop and Rebecca Kleinberger As part of the Dalai Lama’s visit to MIT, the Opera of the Future Group performed an experiment in collaboration with the vocal ensemble Blue Heron, Affectiva, Elliott Hedman, and Tenzin Priyadarshi, director of the Dalai Lama Center at MIT. During Blue Heron’s stunning performance of early choral …
Opera of the Future Meets the Dalai Lama
The Dalai Lama visited M.I.T. earlier this week to give a series of talks hosted by the Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values. The Opera of the Future group in collaboration with Tenzin Priyadarshi, MIT's Buddhist Chaplain and Director of the Dalai Lama Center at MIT, and the Blue Heron vocal ensemble, produced a …
Music + Media Mash-up!!
Music and media are two worlds that are evolving technologically at a head-spinning pace today. How is technology helping or hindering? How has technology itself become the subject for musical and media investigation? And if you want to get really meta, how is technology altering the very profession of being a media commentator about the …
Tod Machover at the Dallas Opera (Video)
Tod returns by popular demand to speak with opera lovers at the Dallas Opera on September 18. He's joined by Sara Heaton, who performed in "Death and the Powers" in the role of Miranda. Here they are in "Composing Conversations":
From Glenn Gould to Hip Hop (photos)
Tod's weekend in Toronto. Photos from Tod Machover's Facebook. Click on image to see full size.
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