Critic Andrew Violette reviews Tod Machover's latest CD "...but not simpler..." in the current (Fall/Winter 2011) issue of New Music Connoisseur. The full review is available here. We especially appreciate that Mr. Violette sees past the technology to the essence of the music. For Tod, technology is part Muse, part means, but never the end …
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TOD MACHOVER: ‘…but not simpler…’ & other works – Bridge Records - by Daniel Coombs "...I knew just enough about the work of Tod Machover to have a generally positive opinion and to think that I knew his “style” with its heavy reliance on electronics (as one writer declared him to be “America’s most wired composer.”) …
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From PRWeb Cambridge, MA and Yerevan, Armenia. The opulent Armenian Opera Theater in the heart of Armenia’s capital Yerevan will reverberate with some truly fresh sounds on the evening of February 25, 2012, as two of Armenia’s elite musical ensembles dig into new pieces composed entirely by children from Armenia and the United States. The concert, “A-to-A: …
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NPR's classical music reviewer Tom Huizenga featured Tod Machover's concerto for hyperpiano, "Jeux Deux" on the February 12th broadcast of Weekend Edition. Listen to the podcast to hear what Huizenga had to say, and catch a snippet from the recording. "Jeux Deux" is now available on Tod's new CD "...but not simpler...", at Bridge Records. …
by Phil Muse for Atlanta Audio Video Club, reproduced here with permission “…but not simpler,” music of Tod Machover The iO String quartet; Michael Chertock, hyperpiano Paul Mann, Odense Symphony Orchestra Bridge Records I know I’m getting along in years when I start encountering composers that I’m old enough to beat up. In the case …
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Los Angeles Times music critic Mark Swed made the 90-minute drive up to Santa Barbara last week to attend Tod Machover's talk on "Music, Mind and Health: Diagnosis, Treatment, and Well-being through Active Sound," one of four lectures he gave recently at the university's Sage Center for the Study of the Mind. In today's issue, Swed …
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The M.I.T. Media Lab attracts people whose quirky passions and eclectic skill make them misfits in traditional academic departments. Founding director Nicholas Negroponte likes to call the lab a salon de refusés, a roomful of rejects. One such refusé was Ben Bloomberg, an undergraduate who loves pop music and entertainment technology. In the current issue of …
This is a lovely holiday surprise!! Chicago Classical Review named Death and the Powers among The Top 10 Performances of 2011. The review states: "Tod Machover’s envelope-pushing Death and the Powers was the undisputed opera highlight of the year in Chicago." That's humbling considering the vibrant, outstanding opera scene for which the Windy City has long been known. Read the rest of …
Here's a cool article and video from Adam Boulanger's visit last week to Lincoln Park Performing Arts Charter School in Midland, PA. Twenty-one students from the school are being trained to teach Alzheimer's patients to use a music composition tool. They are part of a collaborative research study with the M.I.T. Media Lab, the Cleveland Clinic and …
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Kudos to Jen Gunnels of The New York Review of Science Fiction for her outstanding article about Death and the Powers. This is a comprehensive review that discusses, with knowledge and insight, every aspect of the production, from the libretto, music and performances, to the art direction, stage technology, lighting and sound. Reading it made us want …
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