Postings by Tod Machover from Lucerne, Switzerland February 16, 2015. Here’s my full Fasnacht costume – provided by friends at the LUCERNE FESTIVAL, as well as the (very loud) scene right outside my hotel window – at 12:30 pm. People told me that this medieval, super-quiet and discrete hotel would become one of the epicenters of Fasnacht…and …
Tod Machover will be presenting the Closing Concert at this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The concert will be livestreamed at 17:45PM Central European Time (11:45AM U.S. EST). Watch here.
Tod Machover will be presenting the Closing Performance at the World Economic Forum in Davos on January 24, and giving several other presentations and demonstrations about CITY SYMPHONIES and VOCAL VIBRATIONS. Full info on the WEF Arts Program here.
Check out this terrific interview Barbara Seisel did with Tod Machover about his recently premiered flute concerto, “Breathless.” The article, temporarily available online to nonsubscribers, provides an in-depth look at how the piece was created. Tod talks about how he collaborated with flutist Carol Wincenc, and how he thought about using electronics, how the three-movement …
The Dallas Morning News has ranked the Dallas Opera’s February 2014 production of “Death and the Powers” one of its “Classical music: Top 10 performances of 2014.” Reviewer Scott Cantrell writes: Tod Machover’s sci-fi opera, dividing a cast of characters between known reality and some sort of parallel existence, was quite a stretch for a company …
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Fun TV segment about the Opera of the Future group’s work on FOX TV’s “Exploration Earth 2050”, which aired this past Saturday and is now available on Hulu. The second half of the show – starting at ca. 10:00 – is about DEATH AND THE POWERS, the new Sensor Chair, and other music, technology, and …
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In-depth, thoughtful interview about the SYMPHONY IN D project for Detroit, with Ann Delisi of WDET, Detroit’s NPR station. Ann covers the background and essentials for this collaborative city symphony. Listen here.
Excellent interview – with good audio examples – from Swiss Radio, broadcast last Wednesday. Gives a good sense of the SYMPHONY FOR LUCERNE project, so worth a listen even if you aren’t fluent in Swiss German. Listen here.
From Tod Machover’s Facebook page: Listen to the trailer for Symphony in D, created from sounds recorded by Tod on a visit to Detroit. Check out the Detroit Symphony’s page about Symphony in D Press coverage: New York Times – Composer Aims to Capture the Spirit of Detroit Detroit Free Press – Composer seeks sounds of Detroit …
The VOCAL VIBRATIONS project opened at the new Le Laboratoire Cambridge on Thursday and runs through March; more on that shortly. In the meantime, the news is that you can download the music for the project exclusively from Bowers+Wilkins, in both MP3 and hi-res-quality (including surround sound), starting TODAY. Download here.
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