The Improper Bostonian caught up with Tod Machover recently, in advance of the opening of “Vocal Vibrations” at Le Laboratoire Cambridge: Q. COOLEST TECHNOLOGY YOU WANT BUT DON’T HAVE? The thing we’re trying to invent now, the technology goes back to the Yo-Yo story. An instrument that becomes part of the performer and sort of …
From Tod Machover’s Facebook page: Was in Detroit yesterday and today to discuss a new project, and continued to meet people and discover new things about that amazing city, currently on a precipice between past and future, blight and beauty. Among the astonishing experiences was the discovery of “Hamtramck Disneyland”, an urban vision built by …
From Tod Machover’s Facebook page: Had dinner with David Harrington of the Kronos Quartet on Sunday, and afterwards came across this lovely photo from our “Chomsky Suite” project from a few years ago. Unforgettable! — with Jeffrey Zeigler and Noam Chomsky at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Here are movements 2+3 (out of 5) of Tod …
From Tod Machover’s Facebook page: Incredible photo just sent to me by Margaret Minsky, of me with Yoichiro Kawaguchi and Marvin Minsky, at the MIT Media Lab around the time of the premiere of FLORA in 1990. Marvin introduced the two of us, and we collaborated on this computer music/video piece via Fax between Cambridge …
From PRNewswire CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Oct. 14, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Le Laboratoire Cambridge, a one-of-a-kind art and design center for creativity, invention and discovery, will open in Cambridge on October 31 with Vocal Vibrations, an exhibit in which carefully crafted music and specially designed objects promote new ways of exploring vocal vibrations in health and meditation. Le …
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Check out Tod Machover’s letter to the editor of the Boston Globe, in response to a recent Globe article “Boston overdue for a proper opera house“: With a clean slate, with the leadership of BLO and others, and with the participation of the area’s vital artistic and academic communities, Boston could design and build the …
Excellent TV piece on the LUCERNE FESTIVAL by Deutsche Welle, Germany’s equivalent of the BBC World Service. A segment on the SYMPHONY FOR LUCERNE project starts at 3:40. Check it out – and practice your German – at http://www.dw.de/take-five-folge-4-lucerne-festival/av-17890526
Fun NPR Morning Edition piece this past weekend on Yuval Sharon‘s multimedia production of “Cunning Little Vixen” with the Cleveland Orchestra, including some comments by our own Tod Machover about DEATH AND THE POWERS and opera+technology in general. Great food for thought! Listen to the program here: ‘The Cunning Little Vixen’ Pokes Her Head Into An Animated Forest
A pleasant surprise arrived in the mail this week: Opera News in its May 2014 issue gives the Dallas Opera’s production of Tod Machover’s “Death and the Powers” a glowing review. Writer Andrew Sigler praises the opera as “a big work with big ideas,” and notes that “Machover brings to bear his considerable technical prowess …
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Opera magazine reviewed the interactive simulcast of “Death and the Powers” and pronounced that this experiment in using smartphone technology to enhance the cinematic viewing experience has “huge potential for the technologically engaged operatic culture that Machover continues to pioneer.” Read the full review here.
Opera of the Future 