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 …
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"I have just come to the end of two of the most exciting (and longest) weeks of my career," writes Peter Higgin, enrichment director at Punchdrunk. Writing in The Guardian, Higgin describes the culmination of the U.K. theater group's collaboration with our team at the MIT Media Lab to create an online enhancement for the hit New York …
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Tod has been attending Music Matters, part of the All That Matters conference that just wrapped up 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." We previously posted …
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 …
At last the story can be told! For the past several months, the Opera of the Future team has been cranking away on a top-secret project to create an enhanced version of Sleep No More, the runaway hit theater experience currently playing in New York City. Last week, they beta tested the system with live …
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 …
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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." …
The Opera of the Future group at the M.I.T. Media Lab attracts a diverse and highly creative bunch of young innovators. The common thread binding them is music and technology. Beyond that, their interests radiate out to touch on just about any aspect of life one can imagine, from health to games, education and even …
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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 …
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 …
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