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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Hypercellos to Guitar Hero to Robotic Opera and Beyond mardi 28 juin 2011 12h-13h Ircam - salle Stravinsky en anglais This presentation will trace the development of music research work over the past 20 years in Tod Machover's Opera of the Future Group at the MIT Media Lab. The musical concepts behind technologies for enhanced …
Here's some recent press about Death and the Powers: a review by Frank Langlois from Opéra Magazine (Paris) and an excellent article from Brazil's Revista Galileu. We'll get them translated into English, but in the mean time, you can download the PDFs. Enjoy! Opéra Magazine Review of Death and the Powers (pdf) Revista Galileu - …
Joélle Harvey shines in the demanding role of Miranda, the daughter of Simon Powers. Miranda is in her late teens, a young woman of intelligence and sensitivity, special and prescient. She is Antigone, Cordelia. Here she performs a duet with her stepmother Evvy, from Scene 1. Recorded during rehearsals at the Cutler Majestic Theater, Boston, …
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We've got a lot of great new interviews coming up in the next few weeks, but for now this'll have to do - this fantastic image depicts Patricia Risley as Evvy, dramatically lit in her famous chandelier scene. You can hear her talk more about what it's like to perform this scene during her interview. …
Tod Machover composed I Dreamt a Dream! in 2004 for the Young People's Chorus of New York City. When he received the commission to premiere a new work for the YPC's Transient Glory concert series, Tod turned to one of his favorite poets, William Blake, and selected a poem that he felt would speak to …
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RSA series - Tod Machover in conversation with John Kennedy. In the future will everyone be an artist distributing their work over the Web? The tendency is for the quality to settle in the middle. If artists can engage fully with their audience to critique and guide work, the quality should get better. Is there …
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Death and the Powers composer Tod Machover talks about his musical vision in the Big Thinkers series on TechTV. Lots of fascinating footage... Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
Opera of the Future 