Tod Machover – composer, inventor and professor at the MIT Media Lab – began his career as the first Director of Musical Research at Pierre Boulez’s IRCAM institute in Paris. His Re-Structures for 2 Pianos and Electronics was commissioned in 2015 by the Lucerne Festival, and was premiered there to celebrate Boulez’s 90th birthday. Mark …
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q63Tgd5HJIA Wonderful interview with Tonya Matthews - director of the Michigan Science Center, PhD in biology, and truly brilliant poet and performance artist - on the occasion of the PBS premiere of the Dennis Scholl/Marlin Johnson documentary on the SYMPHONY IN D project. Tonya speaks beautifully about her work and about describing Detroit in words …
Be sure to read--and subscribe to--the City Symphonies blog, which has been posting some captivating stories about the Philadelphia Voices project. Here's an excerpt from the most recent post, Jam Session with Sister Cities Girlchoir: I gave the girls a challenge of helping to create Philadelphia Voices by thinking of words and phrases that convey the …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=RFjSh6uDolo The Emmy-award-winning "Symphony in D" documentary, directed by Dennis Scholl and Marlon Johnson,aired at 8pm October 13 on Detroit's DPTV. In an article in Broadway World, the Tod Machover symphony is described as an "audacious project...It received an awe-inspiring world premiere, led by DSO Music Director Leonard Slatkin, at Orchestra Hall, playing to an enthusiast …
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From Tod Machover's Facebook A new City Symphony—based on the model that we created over the past several years and mentored, but not created, by our team at the MIT Media Lab—premieres in Miami on October 21. Called Project 305, the new collaborative work has been organized by the New World Symphony with support from …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSbJd982q-Q Composer Tod Machover visits the National Constitution Center on Constitution Day, September 17, 2017, for his newest city symphony project, "Philadelphia Voices." His objective: to collect sounds that capture the spirit of the place that gave birth to American democracy. Add your voice to the project by downloading the Philadelphia Voices app! Download in …
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From Tod Machover's Facebook page: "I am flying out to San Francisco for the day tomorrow to give the closing performance for Ford's City of Tomorrow symposium. Anita Schaufelberger is coming over from Switzerland to play a new version of the City Symphony performance we gave two years ago at the World Economic Forum, and …
https://vimeo.com/144788502 Congratulations to Dennis Scholl, Marlon Johnson and Tod Machover for taking home an Emmy for Best Cultural Documentary for the film of SYMPHONY IN D at the Michigan Emmy Awards last night! Check out the trailer above. Dennis Scholl and Marlon Johnson picked up the awards in Detroit (photo below). Tod had to stay home to …
Check out the new website for the latest Tod Machover City Symphony project, Philadelphia Voices. "Tod Machover and Opera of the Future launched the Collaborative City Symphony project in 2012, and since then have created collaborative symphonies with the cities of Toronto (Toronto Symphony Orchestra, 2013), Edinburgh (Edinburgh International Festival, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, 2013), …
From Tod Machover's Facebook page: Arrived in DC yesterday afternoon by train from Philly, into Union Station - grungy and dilapidated in the back, splendid in the front...a metaphor for something, perhaps??? Went to the speaker's dinner for today's Kennedy Center "Arts Summit", hosted by Yo-Yo Ma. Was wonderful to see many old friends from …
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