Teams in Cambridge, MA, and Armenia are working furiously to prepare for the concert next Saturday, February 25, at the Aram Khachaturian Concert Hall in Armenia. School kids in Boston and Armenia collaborated to create new music, composed with Hyperscore software. Go give them a listen here: Hyperscore: The World in Harmony Update: The site will go live to the public …
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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. …
We had the opportunity last week to witness a new piece of music take shape at the M.I.T. Media Lab. Instead of flowing from the pen of a lone latter-day Mozart, this composition emerged on a computer screen from the collective efforts of two classrooms engaging in a composing charrette via a Skype connection. A …
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From Tod's Facebook - "Next "unusual" project: I've invited the whole city of Toronto to join me to compose an orchestra piece, on commission from the Toronto Symphony. I'll be curating their New Creations festival next season, and this will be a centerpiece. Premiere in March 2013; more info soon. The project was announced today …
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Tod Machover posted on his Facebook page: "Composing legend Terry Riley finished a week-long residency at MIT by giving a concert on Thursday evening in collaboration with MIT's gamelan ensemble. A wacky, wonderful California-infused twist on minimalism, with repeated figures (often in the left hand), delirious and quirky melodies, and soulful jabs from clarinet, processed …
"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 …
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 …
Tod is just back from a whirlwind trip to London where he brainstormed with director Braham Murray, his collaborator on Resurrection and Skellig, about new opera and theater concepts, and launched a new project with theater group Punchdrunk (more soon on these soon). But first he swung by the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden …
Tod Machover is completing work on a new Bridge Records CD called ...but not simpler.... The album draws from Tod's instrumental works composed over the past decade, including "Sparkler" (commissioned by the American Composers Orchestra and premiered at Carnegie Hall), "Jeux Deux" (commissioned by the Boston Pops and premiered at Boston Symphony Hall), "...but not simpler" …
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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 …
Opera of the Future 