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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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 …
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 …
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 …
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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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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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 …
We just received another magazine interview in Czech, this one from Novy Prostor (download PDF: On connection between music and people). Here's what it looks like:
The Czech publication Novy Prostor just posted this lengthy interview, recorded when Tod was attending the Prague Quadrennial (see article here) this past June. The article is in Czech, but this Google translations captures the gist of it (with some hilarious mangled syntax): A BRIDGE BETWEEN MUSIC AND PEOPLE by VINKELHOFEROVÁ M., J. FIALA The …
The 2011 edition of "Open Mind: Sharing Knowledge for a Better Future," features a chapter written by Tod Machover, "Ópera del futuro para robots y también para personas" (Future Opera for Robots and People Too), available in Spanish and English. Tod delves into the role of music in our lives and the potential of technology to distance …
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Opera of the Future 