Reposted from the Lucerne Festival website Contemporary music: something meant only for the “happy few”? Tod Machover provides evidence to the contrary. In his Symphony for Lucerne, which will be premiered by the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY Orchestra, he has created a sonic portrait of the city from the sounds and noises of Lucerne – while …
Remarkable young pianists Hazel Beh and Andrew Zhou at the first rehearsal for my new piece RE-STRUCTURES – in honor of Pierre Boulez’s 90th birthday – which premieres on Sunday, August 23, at the LUCERNE FESTIVAL. Very very difficult piece, but they already play the heck out of it. Come to the concert if you can; …
Tod left last night for Lucerne, where he’ll be Composer in Residence for the next month at the Lucerne Festival. Here’s a fun article in the Luzerner-Anzeiger newspaper:
The Blu-ray DVD of the Dallas Opera’s simulcast production of “Death and the Powers” received a rave review from Scott Cantrell, classical music critic for the Dallas Morning News. Calling the recording “the most stunningly realized video production I’ve seen anywhere,” Cantrell writes: The Dallas Opera’s presentation of Machover’s sci-fi opera Death and the Powers, …
Chantine Akiyama reports on the Opera of the Future team’s visit to Detroit in July. Akito, who is an expert at our Hyperscore software, conducted a couple of Hyperscore workshops while he was there, one at the Detroit Academy of Arts and Sciences (DAAS), and another at Crescendo Detroit. We also checked in on our Hyperscore …
Michigan Radio’s Emily Fox chats with Tod Machover about the “Symphony in D” project. You can listen here to How to create a symphony of Detroit. In the interview, Tod explains how he is working with people from all over Detroit to convey the story of the city’s vibrant history and diverse communities through sound, which …
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Hi there! I’m Chantine, a (recently graduated) undergrad researcher with the Opera of the Future group in the Media Lab, giving you an update with the group with regards to the forthcoming city symphonies. Recently, Tod and Co. have been quite busy with final preparations for A Symphony for Lucerne, to be debuted September 5th, …
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Tod Machover has just posted an essay about the process of composing his new collaborative symphony for the Swiss city of Lucerne. An excerpt: With both the recorded sounds and the Hyperscore pieces, I have spent the last weeks not only listening to them and getting to know them, but also imagining what special synergies …
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Exciting news that Detroit’s NPR station, WDET, is partnering with Detroit ad firm Doner to help collect sounds of the Motor City for our SYMPHONY IN D project. Get all the info here. Maybe the call of your coney dog order or the roar of a Mustang engine, what sounds are uniquely Detroit? Share your ideas with …
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Tod Machover’s newest work, “Of Experience,” has its world premiere this Saturday, May 16th, at the Maison symphonique de Montréal. Composed for the hall’s pipe organ, narrator and electronics, the piece was commissioned by the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal. The work is inspired by the essays of Montaigne, and is part of a program celebrating the …
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