The Chinese magazine Lifeweek produced a special issue on MIT in its October 11, 2010 issue. The Media Lab was prominently featured, and included an article about Tod Machover's work. Here's a translation of the title and abstract (thanks Google Translator!): Tod Machover: Music Liberator Machover is a genius inventor Professor. Twenty-five years at the …
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We bring you inside the creative workings of the Opera of the Future group directed by composer Tod Machover at the M.I.T. Media Laboratory. Opera of the Future’s current major project is a new opera, Death and the Powers, which received its world premiere on September 24 in Monaco. You'll find a wealth of interviews, …
Just to give you an idea of what else Tod is up to, as though he weren't busy enough already with Death and the Powers premiering in (gulp!) two weeks!
For Death and the Powers, I have primarily been working on the interactive systems, including the wearable sensors and vocal analysis system that we use to transform Jim Maddalena's live performance into the performance of the entire theatrical set. It's a terrific theatrical challenge: what do you do when your main performer is not actually …
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Tod is on a media roll this week... here's a terrific article in Boston Magazine - Genius Composition: How professor Tod Machover and a group of MIT scientists are creating the future of music. Here's a quote: "Machover believes the music - not the technology - is the message. And if this means alienating the …
The just-released 40th Anniversary issue of Smithsonian magazine features a terrific interview with our very own Tod Machover, composer of Death and the Powers. Check it out! Tod Machover on Composing Music by Computer "The inventor and MIT professor talks about where music and technology will intersect over the course of the next 40 years." …
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