The Opera of the Future team has been sleepless in Toronto, frantically finishing the audio and visuals that will accompany the world premiere of "A Toronto Symphony" whilst squeezing in rehearsals in between New Creations Festival performances. Tickets are available here. The spectacle will spill out beyond the confines of Roy Thomson Hall to take …
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The Toronto Symphony's New Creations Festival opens today! With Machover as guest-curator, the 2013 New Creations Festival takes a suitably technology-driven perspective, exploring the evolution of music from past to future with a selection of boundary-bending works which bring the past to the present and redefines the instruments of an orchestra. The Festival opens with the …
Mark your calendars! San Francisco's public radio TV station KQED will be airing a one-hour-long interview with Tod Machover this week. Here's the scoop: Transforming Music Meet musician and inventor Tod Machover, the creator of technologies behind "Guitar Hero" and "Rock Band." Computer History Museum's John Hollar speaks to the influential composer, whose work has been performed internationally, …
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One of the operabots from the cast of Death and the Powers went AWOL a few days ago from the Media Lab. It turned up yesterday in, of all places, the Dallas Cowboys Stadium! Apparently it was invited there to help publicize the Dallas Opera's 2013-2014 season, which will include a simulcast of Turandot this …
Woo hoo! "A Toronto Symphony" is finished!! Here's the first page of the score. Tod worked non-stop orchestrating it over the past month, with a major push in the middle of the weekend blizzard to assemble the complete score. He received invaluable help from a hardy band of Media Lab students and producers who trekked through thigh-deep snow …
Over the past year, composer Tod Machover and the Opera of the Future group have intrigued Toronto's citizenry with their ambitious symphony orchestra project. Titled "A Toronto Symphony: Concerto for Composer and City," the project invites everyone in the city to help create the work in ways that Machover hopes will break fresh ground in …
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From Tod Machover's Facebook post today: From DJ Poet to the BSO:) Went to Symphony Hall last night to hear the Boston Symphony play a French-Russian program of Dutilleux, Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky and Ravel, conducted by Alan Gilbert. The revelation for me was "La Valse" by Ravel, well-known of course, but ear-expanding after all my current …
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"In 50 years, and probably well before that, every piece of music will be some kind of collaboration." As the ambitious "A Toronto Symphony" project heads into its final phase, journalist Molly Petrilla checked in with composer Tod Machover for an update. In this excellent Smartplanet interview, Tod describes his motivation and vision for this unprecedented …
From Tod Machover's Facebook page: My recent song composed for the opening of the National Opera Center in New York - "Open Up the House" - is now available via iTunes. Brilliant text by Letha Hafferkamp Kiddie, and beautiful performances by Merrin Lazyan and Tae Kim (all Facebook - and real-life - dear friends). Read …
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Tod Machover visited Toronto last Friday to check in on the school kids who have been working on their musical contributions to the "A Toronto Symphony" project all fall. The visit is described in this terrific Musical Toronto post by John Terauds. Here are some cool photos and comments posted by Tod on his Facebook …
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