A one-stop shop for performing organizations interested in Tod Machover’s “Another Life,” a work for instrumental ensemble and electronics. ” This piece revisits some of the musical concerns of [Machover’s] own youth with the resources and experience of maturity; it is about personal expression, full of exuberance and regret, nostalgia and celebration.” – Richard Dyer, The …
Tod Machover’s A Toronto Symphony project will officially launch in Toronto on June 14 at ideacity, billed as “‘Canada’s Premier Meeting of the Minds’…an eclectic gathering of artists, adventurers, authors, cosmologists, doctors, designers, entertainers, filmmakers, inventors, magicians, musicians, scientists and technologists.” Joined by musicians from the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Tod will present the overall concept …
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The popular technology blog Gizomodo sent an intrepid reporter to try out the enhanced Sleep No More experience during its beta test run. The result is this rich description of getting lost inside the creepy McKittrick Hotel. Donning a mask that on occasion transmits urgent, mysterious messages to her, she slowly realizes that the set …
On his recent journey to Singapore, Tod met more than the usual quota of intriguing figures from the world of music and digital entertainment. One of them was Bob Lefsetz, an entertainment lawyer whose take-no-prisoners blog Lefsetz Letter is reputed to be the most widely read in the music industry. Described by Wired magazine as …
Interview by Jennifer Green, Project Manager for the 2013 New Creation’s Festival A Toronto Symphony project. Every March the Toronto Symphony Orchestra presents the New Creations Festival. Season curator and composer, Tod Machover, will create a new work that will be premiered by the orchestra in Roy Thomson Hall on March 9, 2013. The work will be …
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“I have just come to the end of two of the most exciting (and longest) weeks of my career,” writes Peter Higgin, enrichment director at Punchdrunk. Writing in The Guardian, Higgin describes the culmination of the U.K. theater group’s collaboration with our team at the MIT Media Lab to create an online enhancement for the hit New York …
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Tod has been attending Music Matters, part of the All That Matters conference that just wrapped up in Singapore. Top executives and creatives from major players in the global music industry get to mingle over five days at what conference organizers describe as a gathering of “all that matters in music, entertainment, technology and media.” We previously posted …
A couple of weeks ago, Tod gave a keynote at the “Music: Cognition, Technology Society” conference at Cornell University. Tyran Grillo just posted this thorough summary at Sequenza 21, a blog devoted to contemporary classical music. He write: “Music: Cognition, Technology, Society set a formidable intellectual task before participants of the selfsame conference at semester’s end on the quieting …
At last the story can be told! For the past several months, the Opera of the Future team has been cranking away on a top-secret project to create an enhanced version of Sleep No More, the runaway hit theater experience currently playing in New York City. Last week, they beta tested the system with live …
The venerable Gramophone, which bills itself “The world’s unrivalled authority on classical music since 1923,” just came out with an excellent review of Tod Machover’s most recent CD, “…but not simpler…” The review notes that Machover’s technological innovations, such as Hyperinstruments and Hyperorchestra, “have crucial and winning impacts on the expressive possibilities of Machover’s music, as can …
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