Here's an insightful article about Tod Machover in the October issue of Opera News. Written by Philip Kennicott, Pulitzer prize-winning critic for the Washington Post, the article delves into the evolution of the music and gets to the heart of what the operas are about. Refreshing! Some great quotes: "…Machover, voluble and friendly in person, confounds expectations. Valis, …
Repertoire Remix: Q&A
The MIT Media Lab has posted a terrific interview with Tod Machover and pianist Tae Kim that takes us deeper inside the collaborative process of creating "Festival City". In the interview, Tod also speaks about how the experience is changing him: For Festival City, I have taken a big risk by opening up the compositional process to …
BBC Scotland interview with Tod Machover
From Tod Machover's Facebook: Just did a live interview on BBC Scotland for my FESTIVAL CITY project for the Edinburgh International Festival. We talked about the idea of collecting sounds of the city, mixing those with music, and the hosts had even made their own collage of Edinburgh sounds for me to listen to. You …
Interview on BBC Scotland (AUDIO)
From Tod Machover's Facebook page: Did a fun live interview today on BBC Radio Scotland about my new Edinburgh "Festival City" collaborative symphony project. It was for a brand new show - The Culture Studio with Janice Forsyth - that premiered...today! My segment starts at 1:34:00 and runs to the end of the show http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01rlrmh. There is also a …
David Almond on BBC’s Desert Island Discs
Check out this wonderful interview with David Almond on the BBC's Desert Island Discs series. David discusses children's literature and the music he'd want if he were a castaway. Thirty minutes into the interview he talks about the opera version of Skellig, on which he collaborated with composer Tod Machover. Here's what BBC program says about …
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Tod Machover new interviews (VIDEO)
Check out the CBC's MetroMorning interview with Tod Machover. Click here. Toronto Symphony Orchestra conductor Peter Oundjian and composer Tod Machover talk about the genesis of Toronto's new "crowdsourced" symphony. Sneak preview of "A Toronto Symphony" in rehearsal. Read the story and watch the video by clicking here -> A Toronto Symphony: CN Tower light show …
Maestro Peter Oundjian on “A Toronto Symphony”
Instrumentation for “A Toronto Symphony”
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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Smartplanet Q&A with Tod Machover
"In 50 years, and probably well before that, every piece of music will be some kind of collaboration." As the ambitious "A Toronto Symphony" project heads into its final phase, journalist Molly Petrilla checked in with composer Tod Machover for an update. In this excellent Smartplanet interview, Tod describes his motivation and vision for this unprecedented …
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