How does one go about composing a symphony with the citizenry of an entire city? Composer Tod Machover and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra are venturing into uncharted territory! To get going, they have conceived of the process as a Journey, with weekly activities to inspire participants to contribute raw material - stories, memories, ideas and …
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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Toronto Symphony project – Sign up for updates
The website has launched for the Toronto Symphony Orchestra's project with composer Tod Machover to create a new work with participation by the people of Toronto. The website features a welcome message from Tod along with an invitation to sign up to participate. Anyone can sign up to receive email updates. The website also asks …
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New Music Connoisseur reviews “…but not simpler…”
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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From the U.S. to Armenia, Kids Build a Musical Bridge
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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Tod Machover to create symphony with city of Toronto
From Tod's Facebook - "Next "unusual" project: I've invited the whole city of Toronto to join me to compose an orchestra piece, on commission from the Toronto Symphony. I'll be curating their New Creations festival next season, and this will be a centerpiece. Premiere in March 2013; more info soon. The project was announced today …
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Los Angeles Times on Tod Machover’s vision for personalized music
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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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 …
All about the CD “…but not simpler…”
"Machover’s controlled venturesomeness in terms of rhythm, tempo, and dynamics makes the music so scintillating that “Fireworks” would have been a likelier title for this work..." - Phil Muse This is your one-stop-shop for performing organizations interested in Tod Machover's music on the CD "...but not simpler..." (Bridge Records 2011). This collection of Tod Machover's music …
Collaborating for a more creative society
The new movie "Anonymous" shows that our culture is more obsessed than ever with celebrity and genius, and that we look for transcendent heroes capable of leading us through the darkness. On the other end, masses of people meet online as "friends" to share intimacies or to solve problems collectively. The truth is that the …
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Opera of the Future 