In case you are wondering why Tod didn't emerge from his barn-studio for the past two months, he was busy orchestrating "A Toronto Symphony." In this new SoundNotion interview, Tod explains his work process, along with sundry other hot topics from the Media Lab and Opera of the Future. (The interview was recorded over Skype, and you …
This week: KQED Interviews with Tod Machover
Mark your calendars! San Francisco's public radio TV station KQED will be airing a one-hour-long interview with Tod Machover this week. Here's the scoop: Transforming Music Meet musician and inventor Tod Machover, the creator of technologies behind "Guitar Hero" and "Rock Band." Computer History Museum's John Hollar speaks to the influential composer, whose work has been performed internationally, …
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In-depth article on Toronto Symphony project
Tod Machover is on the cover of this month's International Arts Manager magazine (London-based), which also has a really good feature article about the "A Toronto Symphony" project and its implications: According to Machover the Internet has opened up participation on a scale that at the moment we can’t fully appreciate. ‘We have a voice through …
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Missing Operabot found!!
One of the operabots from the cast of Death and the Powers went AWOL a few days ago from the Media Lab. It turned up yesterday in, of all places, the Dallas Cowboys Stadium! Apparently it was invited there to help publicize the Dallas Opera's 2013-2014 season, which will include a simulcast of Turandot this …
Toronto Life spotlights “A Toronto Symphony”
With less than a month (!) to go until the world premiere of "A Toronto Symphony", we're starting to see some press coverage. Check out this excellent feature story in the city's leading general circulation magazine, Toronto Life. To order tickets for the March 9 premiere, click here. It's both fabulous and quite insane," [conductor …
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Hot off the press! “A Toronto Symphony”
Woo hoo! "A Toronto Symphony" is finished!! Here's the first page of the score. Tod worked non-stop orchestrating it over the past month, with a major push in the middle of the weekend blizzard to assemble the complete score. He received invaluable help from a hardy band of Media Lab students and producers who trekked through thigh-deep snow …
From Snowbound Waltham…
Big news! Tod emerged from his barn (amid accumulating drifts of snow from the Big Blizzard of '13) with the just-completed manuscript for "A Toronto Symphony". With that behemoth off his plate, looks like he found a free moment to Google around and post on his Facebook page: I just came across this hilarious drawing …
Machover’s Toronto project attracts global attention
Over the past year, composer Tod Machover and the Opera of the Future group have intrigued Toronto's citizenry with their ambitious symphony orchestra project. Titled "A Toronto Symphony: Concerto for Composer and City," the project invites everyone in the city to help create the work in ways that Machover hopes will break fresh ground in …
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Machover giving Chamber Music America Keynote
Chamber Music America's National Conference is coming to New York City this week, from January 17-20. This year's conference is packed with sessions about building audiences, exploring fresh musical territory and navigating the technologies for sustaining music. Tod Machover will be giving the opening Keynote on Friday, January 15, 10:30 AM, on "High Tech Music: …
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Musing on a Boston Symphony Orchestra concert
From Tod Machover's Facebook post today: From DJ Poet to the BSO:) Went to Symphony Hall last night to hear the Boston Symphony play a French-Russian program of Dutilleux, Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky and Ravel, conducted by Alan Gilbert. The revelation for me was "La Valse" by Ravel, well-known of course, but ear-expanding after all my current …
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