Reviews are starting to pop up for “Yesterday Happened: Remembering HM.” The music is receiving favorable comments! The play runs through May 13. Go and see it! Boston Globe – Investigating the absence of memory “…the most inspired element of “Yesterday Happened” happens in the five minutes before the play starts. Pianist Tae Kim rambles from one …
A wonderful bit of news today! We learned that “Death and the Powers” was one of three finalists for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize in Music. The prize recognizes a distinguished musical composition by an American that has had its first performance or recording in the United States during the previous year (2011). The award was presented …
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Listen for Tod Machover on WBUR (90.9FM) series on Boston Visionaries this Tuesday, April 10. The program airs during Morning Edition at 6:35 a.m. and 8:35 a.m., and All Things Considered, at 5:50 p.m. Reporter Bianca Vázquez Toness visited Tod in his 18th-century barn-studio for a wide-ranging conversation, met the chickens, goats and cats, and even asked …
Mark your calendars! The Central Square Cinema and team behind “Remembering H.M.” have planned a remarkable series of events to address the history and impact of H.M.’s story on our understanding of human memory. Tickets to the play are now available! All events are at the Central Square Theater, located at 450 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139 Saturday, …
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Posted today on Tod Machover’s Facebook page: I’ll be giving a keynote on Friday at the Music, Mind and Invention symposium at the College of New Jersey. The conference is in honor of Marvin Minsky, AI pioneer and “intellectual godfather” of the MIT Media Lab, and I’ll be speaking about Marvin’s enormous influence on musical …
How does one go about composing a symphony with the citizenry of an entire city? Composer Tod Machover and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra are venturing into uncharted territory! To get going, they have conceived of the process as a Journey, with weekly activities to inspire participants to contribute raw material – stories, memories, ideas and …
To mark its 100th anniversary, Steelcase asked author and journalist John Hockenberry to curate a collection of 100 “dreamers” to envision what the next century might be like. Tod Machover shares his ideas about a future for creativity that involves new ways for experts and everyone else to collaborate. Today’s technology has tended to widen, …
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The website has launched for the Toronto Symphony Orchestra’s project with composer Tod Machover to create a new work with participation by the people of Toronto. The website features a welcome message from Tod along with an invitation to sign up to participate. Anyone can sign up to receive email updates. The website also asks …
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Critic Andrew Violette reviews Tod Machover’s latest CD “…but not simpler…” in the current (Fall/Winter 2011) issue of New Music Connoisseur. The full review is available here. We especially appreciate that Mr. Violette sees past the technology to the essence of the music. For Tod, technology is part Muse, part means, but never the end …
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As Tod and the Opera of the Future team mull how to pull off the ambitious Symphony for the City of Toronto, someone sent us this insanely entertaining crowd-sourced remake of Star Wars. Fans around the world were asked to recreate scenes in 15-second increments, and the results were spliced together with the original soundtrack. …
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Opera of the Future 