Some music enthusiast ripped this footage from an episode of Scientific American Frontiers (around 2002) and posted it on YouTube. Host Alan Alda narrates (and sings!), while violinist Joshua Bell jams on a hyperviolin developed for Tod Machover's Toy Symphony project. Enjoy!
LOFT Interview with Tod Machover
The current issue of the Swedish design journal LOFT carries a lavishly illustrated interview with composer Tod Machover. The interview focuses on the creative process and covers a lot of ground, from early childhood experiences with music to the ongoing project to compose a Concerto for Composer and City that calls upon the residents of Toronto …
Prelude to Toronto – Crowdsourced piano improv
Last week's experiment at the MIT Media Lab tested out a new system to allow the listening public to express musical preferences to a pianist who responded in real time. Tae Kim's tour de force of improvisation drew a highly engaged crowd both at the Media Lab and online, as well as some media attention. …
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Reviews of “Yesterday Happened”
Reviews are starting to pop up for "Yesterday Happened: Remembering HM." The music is receiving favorable comments! The play runs through May 13. Go and see it! Boston Globe - Investigating the absence of memory "...the most inspired element of “Yesterday Happened” happens in the five minutes before the play starts. Pianist Tae Kim rambles from one …
“Death and the Powers” a Finalist for 2012 Pulitzer Prize
A wonderful bit of news today! We learned that "Death and the Powers" was one of three finalists for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize in Music. The prize recognizes a distinguished musical composition by an American that has had its first performance or recording in the United States during the previous year (2011). The award was presented …
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Reviews: Hyperstring Trilogy
We set up this page to index reviews of Tod Machover's "Hyperstring Trilogy" CD. Please let us know if you come across additional reviews. Thanks! "It's very imaginative and compelling music and a thrill to play for the performer." - Matt Haimovitz in an interview, speaking about "Begin Again Again" Boston Globe - Review of …
WBUR Visionaries (Video)
WBUR (90.9FM) launched its "Visionaries" series today with a feature about Tod Machover. The program airs one more time today, at 5:50PM EST, and should be available later on as a podcast. The transcript of the story is available online, together with this new video showing some of the projects at the MIT Media Lab's …
Reviews: “…but not simpler…”
We set up this page to index reviews of Tod Machover's CD "...but not simpler...". Please let us know if you come across others. Thank you! Machover CD an "absolutely stunning experience" - "Machover’s exquisite attention to line and form is most evident in the trio of splendid short works for string quartet..." In "Jeux Deux", …
On WBUR Tuesday – Boston Visionaries
Listen for Tod Machover on WBUR (90.9FM) series on Boston Visionaries this Tuesday, April 10. The program airs during Morning Edition at 6:35 a.m. and 8:35 a.m., and All Things Considered, at 5:50 p.m. Reporter Bianca Vázquez Toness visited Tod in his 18th-century barn-studio for a wide-ranging conversation, met the chickens, goats and cats, and even asked …
100 Minds – Tod Machover on Creative Collaborations
To mark its 100th anniversary, Steelcase asked author and journalist John Hockenberry to curate a collection of 100 "dreamers" to envision what the next century might be like. Tod Machover shares his ideas about a future for creativity that involves new ways for experts and everyone else to collaborate. Today's technology has tended to widen, …
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Opera of the Future 