Here's an insightful article about Tod Machover in the October issue of Opera News. Written by Philip Kennicott, Pulitzer prize-winning critic for the Washington Post, the article delves into the evolution of the music and gets to the heart of what the operas are about. Refreshing! Some great quotes: "…Machover, voluble and friendly in person, confounds expectations. Valis, …
New York Times features Opera of the Future
The M.I.T. Media Lab Opera of the Future group's work is the subject of a full-page article by Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim in the August 16th issue of the New York Times. It's an engagingly written piece that covers the history of Tod Machover's work in music composition and technology, from hyperinstruments to "Death and the …
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Warming up for Dallas
A photo from Death and the Powers is featured this Sunday in the Arts & Leisure section of The New York Times, in an article about technology and opera in composer David Lang's new work. Great way to spark interest in the performance coming up at the Dallas Opera (which will be streamed worldwide) in …
Tod Machover at the Dallas Opera (Video)
Tod returns by popular demand to speak with opera lovers at the Dallas Opera on September 18. He's joined by Sara Heaton, who performed in "Death and the Powers" in the role of Miranda. Here they are in "Composing Conversations":
Technology Review: Opera, Remixed
The M.I.T. Media Lab attracts people whose quirky passions and eclectic skill make them misfits in traditional academic departments. Founding director Nicholas Negroponte likes to call the lab a salon de refusés, a roomful of rejects. One such refusé was Ben Bloomberg, an undergraduate who loves pop music and entertainment technology. In the current issue of …
Superb review of Death and the Powers
Kudos to Jen Gunnels of The New York Review of Science Fiction for her outstanding article about Death and the Powers. This is a comprehensive review that discusses, with knowledge and insight, every aspect of the production, from the libretto, music and performances, to the art direction, stage technology, lighting and sound. Reading it made us want …
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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Death and the Powers recording session
This just in from Tod Machover's Facebook: "Finished the DEATH AND THE POWERS recording today with two fabulous sessions. All the singers, the BMOP players, conductor Gil Rose, and the whole recording and tech team did an amazing job. I am SO happy that the music is in the can; now we enter the editing …
October 5 – Robots and Chowdah
If you're in Boston in early October, check out this event at the Museum of Fine Arts: Mixed Taste: Tag-team Lectures on Unrelated Topics: Robot Opera and Clam Chowder Huh? You may well ask. What do operatic robots have to do with chopped clams simmered with onions in a creamy broth? We don't know, and …
Prague Quadrennial coverage
Lighting and Sound magazine has published its report on the Prague Quadrennial conference (from page 110). The event held in June 2011 is one of the world's foremost gatherings of theater lighting and sound professionals. Starting on page 113, the article summarizes Tod Machover's talk, which focused on how technologies such as Hyperinstruments, Hyperscore and disembodied …
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