Be sure to read--and subscribe to--the City Symphonies blog, which has been posting some captivating stories about the Philadelphia Voices project. Here's an excerpt from the most recent post, Jam Session with Sister Cities Girlchoir: I gave the girls a challenge of helping to create Philadelphia Voices by thinking of words and phrases that convey the …
Hyperscore in Detroit
Chantine Akiyama reports on the Opera of the Future team's visit to Detroit in July. Akito, who is an expert at our Hyperscore software, conducted a couple of Hyperscore workshops while he was there, one at the Detroit Academy of Arts and Sciences (DAAS), and another at Crescendo Detroit. We also checked in on our Hyperscore …
Plunging into “Fensadense”
From Tod Machover's Facebook page: Straight off the plane yesterday from Dubai into an intensive rehearsal at the LUCERNE FESTIVAL for our new FENSADENSE project. What a pleasure to explore the relationships of improvisation-to-composition and acoustics-to-electronics with 10 amazing young musicians from around the world. Bach is already being transmuted into something new and surprising, …
Xploration Earth segment features Opera of the Future
Fun TV segment about the Opera of the Future group's work on FOX TV's "Exploration Earth 2050", which aired this past Saturday and is now available on Hulu. The second half of the show - starting at ca. 10:00 - is about DEATH AND THE POWERS, the new Sensor Chair, and other music, technology, and …
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Paris: Meet the Vocal Vibrations Team
From Tod Machover's Facebook page (posted March 27, 2014) "Here's a picture from yesterday of my terrific team from the MIT Media Lab that has been working on the VOCAL VIBRATIONS project, showing the specially designed "oRb" that lets you hold the vibrations from your voice in your hands. Yes, it's an unusual experience! Press …
PBS Newshour on Opera of the Future
PBS Newshour featured the Opera of the Future group tonight. If you missed the broadcast, you can watch it here: Singing robots reflect tech’s humanity in opera of the future
Tod Machover at TEDxMunich (video)
This talk occurred earlier this year and just showed up on YouTube. It provides an excellent overview of the work by Tod Machover's Hyperinstruments and Opera of the Future groups at the MIT Media Lab. Speaking from the Media Lab to the Munich audience via a video conferencing system, Tod and his students demonstrate the …
WGBH interviews Diane Paulus
Here's an in-depth interview on Boston's WGBH with Death and the Powers director Diane Paulus. She also speaks about her work on the Tony-nominated Broadway revival of Hair and the immersive rock musical Prometheus Bound, currently at Club Oberon in Cambridge. We haven't had a chance to hear much directly from Diane (little wonder, she …
Designing Operabots
Alex McDowell, production designer for Death and the Powers, shared these notes with us detailing his experience working on the production design of Death and the Powers. We thought they were worth sharing. Thanks Alex! DEATH & THE POWERS - designing operabots Alex McDowell, March 9 2011 Death and the Powers was my first experience …
Meet the Team – Peter Torpey (Visual Design)
Post by Peter Torpey, M.I.T. Media Laboratory Over the past three years, I’ve played several roles throughout the production of Death and the Powers, working closely with Tod Machover and Alex McDowell to figure out what is necessary and possible to present the story of Simon Powers. From thinking about how to tell the story, …
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