Project Toronto – Genesis (Interview with Gary Kulesha)

Interview by Jennifer Green, Project Manager for the 2013 New Creation’s Festival A Toronto Symphony project. Every March the Toronto Symphony Orchestra presents the New Creations Festival. Season curator and composer, Tod Machover, will create a new work that will be premiered by the orchestra in Roy Thomson Hall on March 9, 2013. The work will be …

Notes from Ithaca

A couple of weeks ago, Tod gave a keynote at the "Music: Cognition, Technology Society" conference at Cornell University. Tyran Grillo just posted this thorough summary at Sequenza 21, a blog devoted to contemporary classical music. He write: "Music: Cognition, Technology, Society set a formidable intellectual task before participants of the selfsame conference at semester’s end on the quieting …

Gramophone Reviews Tod Machover’s latest CD

The venerable Gramophone, which bills itself "The world's unrivalled authority on classical music since 1923," just came out with an excellent review of Tod Machover's most recent CD, "...but not simpler..." The review notes that Machover's technological innovations, such as Hyperinstruments and Hyperorchestra, "have crucial and winning impacts on the expressive possibilities of Machover's music, as can …

Singapore Photojournal

Tod is currently attending Music Matters, part of the All That Matters conference going on this week in Singapore. Top executives and creatives from major players in the global music industry get to mingle over five days at what conference organizers describe as a gathering of "all that matters in music, entertainment, technology and media." …

Performer’s Guide to “Sparkler”

A one-stop-shop for performing organizations interested in Tod Machover's "Sparkler", a work for orchestra and electronics. "Machover’s controlled venturesomeness in terms of rhythm, tempo, and dynamics makes the music so scintillating that “Fireworks” would have been a likelier title for this work..." - Phil Muse “Sparkler (2007) sparkles. There’s a wealth of color-drenched details: virtuosic wind passages juxtaposed …

A Visit from musikFabrik

The delightful folks from Germany's musikFabrik dropped by the MIT Media Lab yesterday for a chat with Tod Machover and a chance to see some of the music technology developed there. The Cologne-based ensemble was in town to rehearse for tomorrow night's concert at Harvard's Paine Hall, where they will perform six new works by …