Update: Here's a Boston Globe article with additional information about FAST Light: "Illumination of imagination": "“The arts and the way they connect with things on campus are one of the best kept secrets at MIT,’’ says Tod Machover, the composer and professor of music and media at MIT who chairs the FAST steering committee. “These …
Death and the Powers, the animation!
Those fun-loving folks at the Chicago Opera Theater think it's not enough to upload oneself into The System. For a full digital reincarnation these days, you need to get animated. (Just ask Robert Pinsky, who has attained his animated apotheosis on The Simpsons.) So here it is, the Powers family drama, as told by animated …
Tod Machover speaking in Chicago this week
The Chicago Opera Theater, which is presenting performances of Death and the Powers in April at Chicago's Harris Theater, has organized two panel discussions this week in Chicago with the opera's composer Tod Machover. Here's the scoop: Wednesday, March 2, 2011 4:00 p.m. ITW Classroom, Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center 2133 Sheridan Road, Evanston …
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50 years of music and technology at M.I.T.
Yesterday's event, Music|Machines: Celebrating 50 Years of Music & Technology @ MIT, was a great success. The all-day program of talks, discussions and evening concert featured some giants of the past half-century of music and technology and attracted an overflow crowd to the M.I.T. Media Lab. The day-time talks were webcast live. Videos of those …
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Tod Machover on NPR’s Morning Edition
Tod Machover was interviewed today on NPR's Morning Edition. Tod speaks with host Bob Oakes about Music|Machines, an all-day event that will be held tomorrow (February 5, 2011) at the M.I.T. Media Laboratory. The event features lectures and discussions by such electronic music pioneers and thinkers as Max Mathews, Barry Vercoe, Marvin Minsky, Joe Paradiso, …
MIT 150th Anniversary Festival of Art, Science and Technology
Tod Machover emailed us this morning to announce that M.I.T.'s Festival of Art, Science and Technology (FAST) is kicking off next week. The three-month festival s part of the Institute's 150th anniversary celebration and "will highlight MIT's legacy of creative experimentation in fields such as music technology, interactive media and architectural installation, and will …
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Event alert: Pinsky and Machover
I Sing the Body Electric December 7, 7:30 pm Arsenal Center for the Arts in Watertown, MA. Composer Tod Machover and poet Robert Pinsky talk about making art in the age of new technology. Hailed as “America’s most wired composer,” Machover is transforming classical music and opera, mixing cocktails of music, dance, theater, and high-tech …
Photos from Monaco – September 25, 2010
Posted by June Kinoshita What's Monaco without a little bling and glamor? Here are a few random shots from yesterday. There was a Christian Dior fashion show in the morning at the Casino de Monte Carlo for the MIT crowd. I spotted some very sparkly footwear in our hotel corridors. It was fun seeing Media …
Photos from Monaco – September 23, 2010
by June Kinoshita Arrived in Monaco around noon. We were very lucky that our connecting flight from Paris to Nice took off as scheduled. So many people traveling to the premiere of Death and the Powers have been stranded at various airports throughout Europe because of the French general strike. I'm sorry that they missed …
Death and the Powers – Welcome to the blog
Behind every opera is...another opera. This summer, Tod Machover's new work, Death and the Powers, will enter the home stretch as the crew works to complete one of the most technically ambitious and visionary opera sets ever built, and the cast arrives in Boston to rehearse for the world premiere in Monte Carlo on September …
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Opera of the Future 