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://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 …
Interesting "debate" at the MIT Media Lab on Dec.9 that Tod Machover be moderating and speaking at - "The Artist: Means, Meaning and Impact in the 21st Century". Final event of the DeVos Institute series on "Generation Elsewhere: Art in the Age of Distraction". Full info and registration at http://www.devosinstitute.net/GenerationElsewhere. Press release at http://web.media.mit.edu/~tod/media/pdfs/The-Artist_Means-Meaning-Impact_PressRelease.pdf.
If you're in Colorado or Vermont this fall, mark your calendars for these upcoming Tod Machover concerts! Thursday, September 29, 7:30-9:00 PM. Packard Performance Hall, 5 W. Cache La Poudre Street, in Colorado Springs. Machover, performs with Susan Grace and guests. More info here. Friday, October 14, University of Vermont, Burlington. 2:30 PM, talk on “Robotic Operas, …
From Tod Machover's Facebook page: "Speaking tomorrow at Lincoln Center's fascinating Global Exchange event that explores the potential for the arts to raise awareness of - and change behavior towards - some of the world's most intractable problems. Will be presenting information about our City Symphonies past, present and future, as well as giving some …
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Tod Machover will be speaking on "Hyperinstruments, Robotic Operas, and City Symphonies" this Sunday, May 22, at Moogfest 2016. According to the festival's website, "Moogfest is a tribute to Dr. Robert Moog and the profound influence his inventions have had on how we hear the world. Over the last sixty years, Bob Moog and Moog Music have …
Composer Tod Machover will be giving a Keynote Talk called MUSIC, MEDICINE AND MEANING at the Mt.Sinai-Louis Armstrong Center symposium "Turned On, Tuned In" in NYC on May 2. Inspired by Marvin Minsky's seminal paper "Music, Mind and Meaning," Machover will be building on the Opera of The Future group's recent work in music, mind and …
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You may interested in this public discussion - called Boundaries of the Possible - that composer Tod Machover will be having with biologist and new MIT Media Lab faculty member Kevin Esvelt. Part of the Catalyst Conversations series and co-hosted by MIT’s List Visual Arts Center, it will be held at the Media Lab Complex's Bartos Theater, 20 Ames …
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From Tod Machover's Facebook page: "What a remarkable premiere yesterday of A SYMPHONY FOR LUCERNE at the LUCERNE FESTIVAL. We gave a pre-intermission "Making Of..." presentation and then played the new work. Matthias Pintscher and theLUCERNE FESTIVAL Academy Orchestra played brilliantly, beautifully. All of the Lucerne performers who we invited to participate - Der Chor …
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The Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra with Matthias Pintscher Terrific review of the Lucerne Festival's "Day for Pierre Boulez" celebration in the Financial Times. Tod Machover's Re-Structures for two pianos and electronics received its world premiere and was praised as "lush and playful." Seldom have all aspects of the Lucerne Festival, from its educational initiatives to its …
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Opera of the Future 