WBUR (90.9FM) launched its "Visionaries" series today with a feature about Tod Machover. The program airs one more time today, at 5:50PM EST, and should be available later on as a podcast. The transcript of the story is available online, together with this new video showing some of the projects at the MIT Media Lab's …
Reviews: “…but not simpler…”
We set up this page to index reviews of Tod Machover's CD "...but not simpler...". Please let us know if you come across others. Thank you! Machover CD an "absolutely stunning experience" - "Machover’s exquisite attention to line and form is most evident in the trio of splendid short works for string quartet..." In "Jeux Deux", …
NPR Classical reviews “Jeux Deux”
NPR's classical music reviewer Tom Huizenga featured Tod Machover's concerto for hyperpiano, "Jeux Deux" on the February 12th broadcast of Weekend Edition. Listen to the podcast to hear what Huizenga had to say, and catch a snippet from the recording. "Jeux Deux" is now available on Tod's new CD "...but not simpler...", at Bridge Records. …
Los Angeles Times on Tod Machover’s vision for personalized music
Los Angeles Times music critic Mark Swed made the 90-minute drive up to Santa Barbara last week to attend Tod Machover's talk on "Music, Mind and Health: Diagnosis, Treatment, and Well-being through Active Sound," one of four lectures he gave recently at the university's Sage Center for the Study of the Mind. In today's issue, Swed …
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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 …
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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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 …
Variety magazine features Hyperinstruments
Variety, the venerable entertainment trade mag (Variety is in/famous for coining zippy industry lingo), has a story today about composer Tod Machover's hyperinstruments. In Smart instruments: Musician's tools play along with you, reporter David S. Cohen writes: "Ever since the invention of electric amplification, there's been tension in the music world -- a perpetual stare-down …
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l’Ordinateur individuel-SVM article on Tod Machover
The French technology magazine l'Ordinateur individuel-SVM just published an article "Tod Machover: Créateur d'Hyperinstruments." The two-page spread describes the evolution of hypersintruments, from IRCAM days to Yo-yo Ma and Guitar Hero. It includes a time line. Nice! Download a pdf of the article.
Opera of the Future 