From Click On Detroit The Detroit Symphony Orchestra (DSO), in partnership with Tod Machover at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, released two free apps that allow citizens of Detroit and metropolitan locals to submit sounds and personalized mixes to the Symphony in D …
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From the Knight Blog: A new, collaborative symphony, led by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and Tod Machover of the MIT Media Lab and funded by Knight, is taking shape in the Motor City. Below, Machover, who is gathering sounds from the people of Detroit to shape the piece, writes about his work. A version of this post …
Postings by Tod Machover from Lucerne, Switzerland February 16, 2015. Here's my full Fasnacht costume - provided by friends at the LUCERNE FESTIVAL, as well as the (very loud) scene right outside my hotel window - at 12:30 pm. People told me that this medieval, super-quiet and discrete hotel would become one of the epicenters of Fasnacht...and …
Tod Machover posted: Just back from a couple of days in Detroit for the next installment of workshops, meetings, presentations, and generally-intense-and-beautiful-experiences that are all part of the crazy mix that will become SYMPHONY IN D with the Detroit Symphony in November (2015). What a powerful city, full of vivid and passionate people, architectural richness …
Check out this terrific interview Barbara Seisel did with Tod Machover about his recently premiered flute concerto, "Breathless." The article, temporarily available online to nonsubscribers, provides an in-depth look at how the piece was created. Tod talks about how he collaborated with flutist Carol Wincenc, and how he thought about using electronics, how the three-movement …
Tod's third post on the I Hear Lucerne blog is up! He brings you inside his journey to explore the Swiss city of Lucerne. From his visit, several themes begin to emerge. Tod also describes an extraordinary workshop involving the people of Lucerne and three very different artists: That same afternoon, we presented a workshop at the …
Filmmaker Roxana Spicer followed the Opera of the Future team around for the months leading up to the premiere of "A Symphony for Toronto," in March 2013. She documented the process of creating the team's first collaborative symphony orchestra piece, which can be seen in her film Urban Symphony. The idea has captured the imaginations of communities around …
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From Tod Machover's Facebook page: Was in Detroit yesterday and today to discuss a new project, and continued to meet people and discover new things about that amazing city, currently on a precipice between past and future, blight and beauty. Among the astonishing experiences was the discovery of "Hamtramck Disneyland", an urban vision built by …
Excellent TV piece on the LUCERNE FESTIVAL by Deutsche Welle, Germany's equivalent of the BBC World Service. A segment on the SYMPHONY FOR LUCERNE project starts at 3:40. Check it out - and practice your German - at http://www.dw.de/take-five-folge-4-lucerne-festival/av-17890526
Tod Machover is in Lucerne, Switzerland, for ten days to begin work on "A Symphony for Lucerne." He's running around meeting many different groups in the city, auditioning musicians and recording the "sounds of Lucerne." There was a nice notice in the New York Times about Tod's residency for the 2015 Lucerne Festival.
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