Videos

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)