Tod Machover posted on his Facebook page: "Composing legend Terry Riley finished a week-long residency at MIT by giving a concert on Thursday evening in collaboration with MIT's gamelan ensemble. A wacky, wonderful California-infused twist on minimalism, with repeated figures (often in the left hand), delirious and quirky melodies, and soulful jabs from clarinet, processed …
Tod Machover at TEDxMunich (video)
This talk occurred earlier this year and just showed up on YouTube. It provides an excellent overview of the work by Tod Machover's Hyperinstruments and Opera of the Future groups at the MIT Media Lab. Speaking from the Media Lab to the Munich audience via a video conferencing system, Tod and his students demonstrate the …
All about the CD “…but not simpler…”
"Machover’s controlled venturesomeness in terms of rhythm, tempo, and dynamics makes the music so scintillating that “Fireworks” would have been a likelier title for this work..." - Phil Muse This is your one-stop-shop for performing organizations interested in Tod Machover's music on the CD "...but not simpler..." (Bridge Records 2011). This collection of Tod Machover's music …
Tod Machover’s UC Santa Barbara series
This Thursday, December 8, Tod Machover will launch a four-lecture seminar series at the University of California Santa Barbara, where he is Distinguished Fellow at the SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind. Full details of the talks are now available here. Here's the schedule: Dec 8, 2011. Hyperinstruments: From Yo-Yo Ma to Guitar …
Collaborating for a more creative society
The new movie "Anonymous" shows that our culture is more obsessed than ever with celebrity and genius, and that we look for transcendent heroes capable of leading us through the darkness. On the other end, masses of people meet online as "friends" to share intimacies or to solve problems collectively. The truth is that the …
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Music connects teens with Alzheimer patients
Here's a cool article and video from Adam Boulanger's visit last week to Lincoln Park Performing Arts Charter School in Midland, PA. Twenty-one students from the school are being trained to teach Alzheimer's patients to use a music composition tool. They are part of a collaborative research study with the M.I.T. Media Lab, the Cleveland Clinic and …
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Blast from the past – Brain Opera
You never know what you'll stumble across on the Internet. This week's buried treasure come to light is this video clip from a presentation Tod Machover gave in 1996 at Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria. Visitors to the famous electronic arts festival had an opportunity to explore the interactive installation and take in a live …
Glasschord’s Future Shock features Death & the Powers
Tod Machover shares his thoughts about "Death and the Powers" in Glasschord, a magazine of arts and culture founded by a community of emerging artists. The current issue is dedicated to artists confronting the future, certainly a theme that is central to DATP. In the opera, the opportunities and challenges of the future are explored through …
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Kickstarter blogs about Tod Machover’s new album
As we enter the final week of our Kickstarter campaign, with just under $2,500 left to reach our goal, we are delighted and honored to have Tod's music and CD project featured on the Kickstarter blog. The interviewer asked excellent questions and put together a very entertaining article. Enjoy, and thank you for helping us …
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Personal Opera in London
Tod is just back from a whirlwind trip to London where he brainstormed with director Braham Murray, his collaborator on Resurrection and Skellig, about new opera and theater concepts, and launched a new project with theater group Punchdrunk (more soon on these soon). But first he swung by the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden …
Opera of the Future 