WRHC's "New and Dangerous Music" program will be airing Tod Machover's 'Chansons d'Amour' Tuesday, July 19, at 10-11PM CST. NEW!! Audio clips from 'Chansons d'Amour': End of Movement 1 (Vita Nuova) to Beginning of Movement 2 (Zwischen Himmel und Erde) End of Movement 2 Buy the CD: 'Bounce' (Bridge Records). Here's Tod's comment on this piece: 'Chansons …
Machover’s ‘Bounce’ and ‘Vinyl Cello’ on WHRC
WRHC's "New and Dangerous Music" program will be airing Tod Machover's 'Bounce' and 'Vinyl Cello' Tuesday, July 12, at 10-11PM CST. Buy CDs: 'Bounce' (Bridge Records) and 'Vinyl Cello' (Oxingale). We invited Tod to comment about these two pieces. Here's what he wrote: My compositions Bounce (1992) and VinylCello (2007) were written 15 years apart, so they …
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Tod Machover’s “Flora” with original HD Video
Tod Machover's composition "Flora" was created in 1989, a collaboration with Japanese computer graphics artist Yoichiro Kawaguchi. The video has been unavailable for a while, but has recently been re-edited by Peter Torpey, a PhD student in Tod's Opera of the Future Group at the MIT Media Lab. Tod writes about "Flora" and this new …
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Mentions by the PBS News Hour and The Guardian
PBS NewsHour - Former Poet Laureate Pinsky: Poetry 'Too Fundamental, Large' to Need Advocate Former poet laureate Robert Pinsky is one of the rare "public poets" who enjoys sharing and performing poetry in settings as wildly diverse as The Colbert Report, The Simpsons and the musical performance stage. Pinsky has performed his poetry with jazz …
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The Sound Bath’s radio interview with Tod Machover
The British radio program "The Sound Bath" (on MyWordRadio), dedicated to the exploration and appreciation of the human voice, interviewed composer Tod Machover about his newest opera Death and the Powers. Interviewer Angelina Kalahari, a classical opera singer herself, leads a fascinating and original conversation about how the composer approaches writing for the human voice …
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Opera for All (video)
Tod Machover on Opera for All - from the Chicago Opera Theater Elementary school kids chose to delve into "Death and the Powers" - they really ran with the idea of what a legacy is. A great way to bring young people into the experience of what an opera is.
Opera America in Boston
Broadway World - OPERA America Conference 2011 Held In Boston May 7-11 "OPERA America's annual conference presents a unique opportunity for the field's leaders to examine the issues affecting the opera community today. Anticipated highlights of Opera Conference 2011 will include the Opening Keynote Address by Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the MIT Media Lab; a …
Rethink Music – Interview with Tod Machover
Update: Check out Billboard Magazine's write-up from Day 1 of "Rethink Music": In Panels And Lightning-Quick Collaborations, Rethink Music Conference Explores The Future And follow @OperaFuture tweets about the conference, which we will be following sporadically through the day. Inside Rethink 2011: Tod Machover on Hyperinstruments
Rethink Music Conference April 25-27, 2011
Tod Machover Keynote to Open Rethink Music Conference (PRWire) "Tod Machover, Professor of Music & Media, MIT Media Lab, will open proceedings at the first "Rethink Music: Creativity, Commerce and Policy in the 21st Century" conference with the inaugural keynote address. Heralded as "America's most wired composer" by the Los Angeles Times, and inventor of …
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BBC’s Music Matters in Boston – April 23, 2011
Composer and M.I.T. professor Tod Machover takes listeners on a guided tour of music at the M.I.T. Media Lab on BBC Radio 3's flagship classical music program, "Music Matters". The program airs tomorrow (Saturday, April 23) and spotlights Boston. In addition to music at M.I.T. the program will feature two-time Grammy Award winning clarinettist Richard …
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