VIDEOS
Interviews and talks
- Creative Composer Tod Machover, Arirang News, March 2023
- Tod Machover at World Frontier Forum, Berlin, November 2019
- Tod Machover at CityLab Detroit (The Atlantic), October 2018
City Symphonies
- A Toronto Symphony (excerpts).
- Urban Symphony (2013) – by Roxana Spicer. Documentary about the creation of “A Symphony for Toronto.”
- “Between the Desert and the Deep Blue Sea” (2014) – World premiere at Perth International Arts Festival.
- “A Symphony for Our Times” (2015) – Closing concert at the World Economic Forum.
- “A Symphony for Lucerne” (2015) – World premiere performed by Lucerne Academy Orchestra.
- “Symphony in D” (2015) – World premiere performed by Detroit Symphony Orchestra with Leonard Slatkin. Excerpt.
- “Symphony in D” (2015) – Video trailer of a new work created with the people of Detroit.
- “Philadelphia Voices” (2018) – Video excerpts from the world premier performance by the Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin: Opening; Cheese steak solo; Block Party.
Schoenberg in Hollywood Trailer
Death and the Powers Preview Series
Video Trailer for Death and the Powers
- Series intro and prologue
- Memory Download
- Scene 1: Simon and the System
- Scene 2: System Soliloquy
- Scene 3: Getting to Know You
- Scene 4: Evvy’s Touch
- Scene 5: Nicholas and the Robots
- Scene 6: The World Reacts
- Scene 7: Into the System
- Scene 8: Miseries, Memory and Miranda
Resurrection video series
- Introduction and Act 1 Scene 1, “May Day”
- Act 1 Scene 1, “Is this a dream?”
- Act 1 Scene 1, The Verdict
- Act 1 Scene 2 – Dinner at the Korchagins
- Act 1 Scene 3 – The Prison
- Act 1 Scene 5 – “Look at me”
- Act 2 Scene 1, Siberian March
- Act 2 Scene 1, Maslova’s Lullaby
- Act 2 Scene 1, “Do I love her?”
- Act 2 Scene 2, “Katusha, you are free”
- Act 2 Scene 2 – Finale
A Symphony for Lucerne
“I Hear Lucerne” series – produced and disseminated during the project, to stimulate public interest and participation.
- Video trailer for A Symphony for Lucerne (inviting public to participate)
- I Hear Lucerne – Episode 1
- I Hear Lucerne – Episode 2
- I Hear Lucerne – Episode 3
- I Hear Lucerne – Episode 4
- I Hear Lucerne – Episode 5
- I Hear Lucerne – Episode 6
- I Hear Lucerne – Episode 7
Features
- BBC News – Tod Machover: composer’s social media symphony for Toronto (VIDEO)
- CBC – A Toronto Symphony (AUDIO)
- NPR – Scott Simon – Sounds Of Toronto’s Streets Liven Symphony (AUDIO)
- Global News – Full Story – An Urban Symphony (VIDEO)
- WBUR – Visionaries: “A Musical Innovator”
- Cannes Lions Technology and Creativity Seminar
- Discovery Channel Canada – Daily Planet feature on Death and the Powers
- Chicago Tonight – WTTW – March 31, 2011
- StyleBoston WCVB-TV Plugged In: Feature on Death and the Powers
- Boston Globe –Powered up and programmed to perform: Chorus of robots in a starring role
- The Economist – Inventing the opera of the future
- PlumTV – “Masters of Innovation: Creativity Wired”
Cast Interviews
- Interview with Tod Machover Part 1: The idea behind Death and the Powers
- Interview with Tod Machover 2: Assembling the Creative Team
- Interview with Tod Machover Part 3: Day before the world premiere
- Interview with Karole Armitage, Choreographer
- Interview with Patricia Risley (Evvy)
- Interview with Hal Cazalet (Nicholas)
- Interview with Tom McNichols, David Kravitz, and Frank Kelley (The Administration)
- Interview with David Woolard, Costume Designer
- Interview with the Miseries
Audience Reaction
- Audience Reactions at the Chicago Opera Theater
- A rock musician reacts to Death and the Powers
- Opening night in Monaco, September 24, 2010
- Death and the Powers Premiere – Video
- After the premiere: Gala at the Hotel de Paris
- Opening Night
Rehearsals
- Final Dress Rehearsal in Monaco
- Rehearsal Photos from Monaco
- September 21, 2010 Rehearsal Photos
- Rehearsal Photos – Monday, August 2, 2010
- Sunday Rehearsal at Cutler Majestic
- First Rehearsals – Slide Show!
- Photos from Monaco – September 25, 2010
- Photos from Monaco – September 23, 2010
- Through Tod’s camera lens – September 15, 2010
- Monaco: Day 1
- Shipping off to Monaco
- Rehearsal at the Cutler Majestic, August 2010
- Gallery – photos of the team and cast
Development Phase
- MIT News – “Disembodied performance”
- Video – Overview from American Repertory Theater workshop
- Karole Armitage at work with Miseries
- Memory Download Sequence Shoot
- Lunch at the Consulate General of Monaco in New York
- Rehearsals Inspire Some Drawings
- Open House at the Media Lab – intro to some technology
- A few questions
OTHER PROJECTS
- MIT 150th FAST Festival (video) – Tod Machover Festival Director
- MIT FAST Light (photos)
- Vocal Vibrations (photo and videos)
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