From Tod Machover's Facebook page: "I am excited to be going to Korea in a few weeks to participate in the Lindenbaum Music Festival. Invited by Festival director and violinist Hyung Joon Won, and collaborating with conductor Toshi Shimada of Yale and grad student Hane Lee from the MIT Media Lab, we will be presenting a glimpse of …
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Tod Machover's newest symphonic work, "Philadelphia Voices", is both a sonic portrait of the city and a message from the city to the world, the composer explains in this Q&A interview with the MIT News Office. Machover discusses the germination of the piece, its evolution as he spoke to hundreds of Philadelphians, and how the …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BllQ35nDqAY Check out this cool reel compiled by the MIT Media Lab! This will soon need to be updated with "Schoenberg in Hollywood"!
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 …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSbJd982q-Q Composer Tod Machover visits the National Constitution Center on Constitution Day, September 17, 2017, for his newest city symphony project, "Philadelphia Voices." His objective: to collect sounds that capture the spirit of the place that gave birth to American democracy. Add your voice to the project by downloading the Philadelphia Voices app! Download in …
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The Boston Lyric Opera just announced the commission for Tod Machover's next opera, called "Schoenberg in Hollywood". The premiere will be in November 2018. Machover is taking a sabbatical from the MIT Media Lab to work on the opera. Read about the basics at tinyurl.com/TodBLOrelease. More to come!!!
For your listening pleasure, here's an excellent version of the "Symphony in D" recording. And here's a new press release just out about the symphony and Tod Machover's "Composer of the Year" award. "Imagination is the strongest tool we have. The reason that we make music is of course to reach our audiences, but also …
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Reposted from the Lucerne Festival website Contemporary music: something meant only for the “happy few”? Tod Machover provides evidence to the contrary. In his Symphony for Lucerne, which will be premiered by the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY Orchestra, he has created a sonic portrait of the city from the sounds and noises of Lucerne – while …
Michigan Radio's Emily Fox chats with Tod Machover about the "Symphony in D" project. You can listen here to How to create a symphony of Detroit. In the interview, Tod explains how he is working with people from all over Detroit to convey the story of the city's vibrant history and diverse communities through sound, which …
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Two MIT undergrads, Chantine Akiyama and Sue Liang, did this interview with Tod Machover about his SYMPHONY IN D project. It's fun and refreshing, and conveys their perspective on the project. Tod speaks about the main goals for the project. They include: First, the music that emerges as the Symphony must be a piece that can stand …
