From Tod Machover’s Facebook page: My recent song composed for the opening of the National Opera Center in New York – “Open Up the House” – is now available via iTunes. Brilliant text by Letha Hafferkamp Kiddie, and beautiful performances by Merrin Lazyan and Tae Kim (all Facebook – and real-life – dear friends). Read …
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Several hundred school children in Toronto have been giving their Hyperscore programs a good workout, composing music about their city for composer Tod Machover’s collaborative “A Toronto Symphony” project. Some of it may end up in the new work, to be premiered in March 2013 by the Toronto Symphony. Take a listen to some of the …
Check out this post on PBS’s MediaShift blog about Tod Machover’s project for the Toronto Symphony. The interview focuses on how the project is exploring and extending what it means to engage in a creative collaboration, and the role technology plays in mediating that interaction. There’s fresh interview material, a nice collection of videos and …
Here’s a feature in the UK’s The Guardian about the Toronto Symphony project. Good to see that word has made it across the pond. Check out: The orchestra as mass collaboration
The November issue of Wired UK is devoted to the M.I.T. Media Lab. Fun to see so many friends and colleagues profiled in it! The article on Tod Machover provides a grand sweep of his career, from Tod’s first encounter with the 4X synthesizer at IRCAM to his current work on “A Toronto Symphony” and …
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Starting at midnight November 13, New York City’s classical music station WQXR will be airing a 24-hour marathon in honor of the late Elliott Carter. Listen to the Elliott Carter marathon here Tod Machover pays tribute to his most important mentor in a series of interviews with a diverse group of people, including Fred Sherry, …
From Tod Machover – Just read the news that Elliott Carter passed away today, a month short of his 104th birthday. What a big loss, what an inspiring life. I was lucky enough to study with Elliott at Juilliard and have always considered him my mentor. He remained imaginative, brilliant, searching and expanding to the …
M.I.T. Media Lab graduate student Peter Torpey, a key collaborator in Tod Machover’s opera “Death and the Powers,” has published an in-depth paper detailing the opera’s groundbreaking technology in the International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media. It’s a must-read for anyone interested in interactive performance technology for live theater and music. You can …
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Tod spoke yesterday at Wired 2012, a conference curated by Wired UK magazine to “explore the ideas, innovations and people that are reshaping our world.” The magazine’s write-up about Tod’s presentation is now available online and quotes some remarks about the current project in Toronto: “When Toronto Symphony Orchestra asked me to write a symphony, I …
“…But Not Simpler…” is on the cover of the current issue of Fanfare magazine. Fanfare also houses a collection of articles about Tod Machover’s music. Here’s a terrific interview by Carson Cooman that provides excellent background on Tod’s work along with some interesting observations. We like this: Whatever the next directions his work takes, there’s no …
