Composer Tod Machover swung through Edinburgh this past weekend to meet with Festival organizers. Looks like he also found time to explore the city. Here are some photos from Tod's Facebook album, with his comments! Click on the photos to enlarge.
Media coverage for A Toronto Symphony
The "A Toronto Symphony" project is receiving some nice media attention! The CBC's popular morning radio program, Metro Morning, aired an interview with composer and project mastermind Tod Machover on the morning of June 14. Click here to listen. The Toronto Star has invited its readers to send in their "sounds of Toronto" and plans to report …
Musical Experiences for the 21st Century
A Toronto Symphony Composer Tod Machover's project with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, "A Toronto Symphony: Concerto for Composer and City", was officially launched today at the ideacity conference 2012. In the trailer video above, Tod explains that the composition will consist of "Me, You and (H)ours" - music based on what he sends out to …
FAST Festival MIT 150th anniversary (video)
Highlights of MIT's Festival of Art, Science and Technology, introduced by festival director Tod Machover. What a feast of gorgeous images, ideas and inspiration, from brain research and Marvin Minsky's theories to an electronic gamelan orchestra, Guitar Hero, Chinese lute, a robotic opera, Otto Piene's sky art and more. Catch a glimpse of one of …
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Behind FAST – Interview with Festival Director Tod Machover
Archinect just published an extensive interview with composer Tod Machover about the process and thinking that went into the creation of MIT's Festival of Art, Science and Technology (FAST). This article provides a great deal of fascinating insight into how this festival came to be. If you're in Boston this weekend, don't miss FAST Light, …
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FAST Light – Photos and Video
Update May 11, 2011. Nice write-up in The Tech (M.I.T.'s campus newspaper). Update May 9, 2011. Check out these beautiful photos of FAST Light taken over this past weekend. There must have been tens of thousands of people there, thronging the campus and the riverbank. Joyous and moving. Getting very excited about tomorrow night's launch …
FAST Light this weekend
Update: Here's a Boston Globe article with additional information about FAST Light: "Illumination of imagination": "“The arts and the way they connect with things on campus are one of the best kept secrets at MIT,’’ says Tod Machover, the composer and professor of music and media at MIT who chairs the FAST steering committee. “These …
MIT 150th Anniversary Festival of Art, Science and Technology
Tod Machover emailed us this morning to announce that M.I.T.'s Festival of Art, Science and Technology (FAST) is kicking off next week. The three-month festival s part of the Institute's 150th anniversary celebration and "will highlight MIT's legacy of creative experimentation in fields such as music technology, interactive media and architectural installation, and will …
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Opera of the Future 