https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXfXy771K8w Chomsky Suite (2011) was composed by Tod Machover for Noam Chomsky and the Kronos Quartet as part of the FAST Festival in celebration of MIT’s 150th anniversary. It was premiered at MIT’s Kresge Auditorium on April 11, 2011 during the Festival’s New Music Marathon, curated by Evan Ziporyn. Machover says of the work: “I …
Machover streaming
Three major pieces by Tod Machover will be streamed internationally over the next week: CHOMSKY SUITE on May 8 at 7PM, A TORONTO SYMPHONY on May 9 at 7PM, and PHILADELPHIA VOICES on May 16 at 8PM (all US EDT).
Schoenberg in Hollywood in Vienna rescheduled
The April 2020 performances of Schoenberg in Hollywood have been cancelled because Vienna is on lockdown and all theaters, museums, and public venues are closed until further notice. However, the great news is that the Vienna Volksoper informed us yesterday that the new production has been rescheduled for the beginning of the 2021/2022 season. We …
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25 years ago, predicting the digital revolution
Here's a fascinating article published by American Cinematographer in March, 1995, covering a Media Lab symposium on "Digital Expression." A star-studded panel, including Quincy Jones, Peter Sellars, Peter Gabriel, Jane Alexander, and Laurie Anderson, discussed how interactive digital technology might transform the arts, break down barriers, and transform the relationship between artists and audiences. Many …
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Notes from Jeju Island, Korea
Tod Machover was visiting Jeju Island, South Korea, last week to participate in the Peace Workshop and Concert, a landmark in music-for-peace activities, and a major step forward for our SYMPHONY FOR THE KOREAS project (a collaboration with Hyung Joon Won and the Lindenbaum Organization).....plus a wonderful opportunity to perform both Flora and Gammified, back-to-back. …
Opera of the Future on NPR Music
New article written by Tod Machover and PhD student Charles Holbrow, posted on the NPR website, commissioned to cap off their series on the future of music streaming. Based on current work at the MIT Media Lab, they wrote about a radically different view of future music, with intrinsic features of the Internet leading to compositions …
“Symphony in D” documentary now showing
The documentary film about our epic "City Symphony" for Detroit - SYMPHONY IN D - has just hit public television. It is being distributed by American Public Television, and should be available on local public television stations around the country over the next couple of years. Directed by Marlon Johnson and produced by Dennis Scholl, …
“Schoenberg” in Vienna
Volksoper Wien has announced that Tod Machover’s “Schoenberg in Hollywood” will be receiving its European premier in April of 2020 in a new production by Helen Malkowsky with a cast that includes Lauren Urquhart and Jeffrey Treganza. Gerrit Prießnitz conducts the chamber work. It will be fascinating to see the opera in this legendary house interpreted by artists …
Kronos Quartet to premier Tod Machover’s “GAMMIFIED”
As a part of its important initiative to support the future of the string quartet, the globally-renowned Kronos Quartet will perform the first public performance of GAMMIFIED by American composer Tod Machover, through the expansive 50 for the Future: The Kronos Learning Repertoire commissioning and education project in partnership with Carnegie Hall and others. Utilizing cutting-edge research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, …
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Music for the Koreas
Tod Machover just returned from a five-day visit to South Korea to meet with violinist Won Hyung-joon, director of the Lindenbaum Festival Orchestra. Won has been trying for two decades to bring together musicians from South and North Korea as a way to promote peaceful reunification between the two countries. After seeing a documentary about …
