The Volksoper Wien has confirmed that its production of Tod Machover’s Schoenberg in Hollywood, originally scheduled for April 2020 but postponed because of the COVID-19 pandemic, is on the calendar for its 2022 season. This will be the European premier of Machover’s 2018 work, in a new production in the heart of Vienna, the city …
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Here’s a fascinating article published by American Cinematographer in March, 1995, covering a Media Lab symposium on “Digital Expression.” A star-studded panel, including Quincy Jones, Peter Sellars, Peter Gabriel, Jane Alexander, and Laurie Anderson, discussed how interactive digital technology might transform the arts, break down barriers, and transform the relationship between artists and audiences. Many …
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Tod Machover was visiting Jeju Island, South Korea, last week to participate in the Peace Workshop and Concert, a landmark in music-for-peace activities, and a major step forward for our SYMPHONY FOR THE KOREAS project (a collaboration with Hyung Joon Won and the Lindenbaum Organization)…..plus a wonderful opportunity to perform both Flora and Gammified, back-to-back. …
The documentary film about our epic “City Symphony” for Detroit – SYMPHONY IN D – has just hit public television. It is being distributed by American Public Television, and should be available on local public television stations around the country over the next couple of years. Directed by Marlon Johnson and produced by Dennis Scholl, …
Tod Machover just returned from a five-day visit to South Korea to meet with violinist Won Hyung-joon, director of the Lindenbaum Festival Orchestra. Won has been trying for two decades to bring together musicians from South and North Korea as a way to promote peaceful reunification between the two countries. After seeing a documentary about …
Opera of the Future, under the leadership of composer Tod Machover at the M.I.T. Media Laboratory, explores concepts and techniques to help advance the future of musical composition, performance, learning, and expression. The mission of this blog and website are to take you inside Opera of the Future’s creative process of bringing new works of music …
From Tod Machover’s Facebook page: It is with great sadness that I report the passing of Braham Murray. In fact, Braham died a week go – suddenly and unexpectedly – and I haven’t been able to get myself to write a post since then; it all still feels so shocking and unreal. Braham was one of …
From Tod Machover’s Facebook page: “I am excited to be going to Korea in a few weeks to participate in the Lindenbaum Music Festival. Invited by Festival director and violinist Hyung Joon Won, and collaborating with conductor Toshi Shimada of Yale and grad student Hane Lee from the MIT Media Lab, we will be presenting a glimpse of …
Mark your calendars and reserve your tickets for Tod Machover’s newest opera, Schoenberg in Hollywood, premiering this November in Boston. Commissioned by the Boston Lyric Opera, the BLO’s website describes the work as “a searing, intimate portrait” of one of the 20th century’s most radical and influential artists. The brilliant composer Arnold Schoenberg fled the …
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Here’s an excellent essay on PHILADELPHIA VOICES and the City Symphony concept by Paul Horsley in The Philadelphia Orchestra’s Playbill magazine from March. Check it out on pages 6-12; well-written and interesting. You can read it here.
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