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 …
100 Minds – Tod Machover on Creative Collaborations
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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Inspiration from…Star Wars Global Mash-Up
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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U Penn Talk – Music, Mastery, and Memory
Tod Machover will be delivering a talk for the Penn Humanities Forum tomorrow on the topic of "Music, Mastery, and Memory." He'll be speaking about technological innovations he has spearheaded to open the doors of musical expression to people who traditionally have been excluded. Pre-registration required. Details here. When: 8 December 2010 from 5:00–6:30pm Where: …
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