Tod was in New York on Thursday recording a new song, "Open Up the House," for soprano and piano, commissioned by Opera America to celebrate the opening of the new National Opera Center in Manhattan next month. Forty new songs - a real cross-section of contemporary American music - have been created and recorded for …
Media coverage for A Toronto Symphony
The "A Toronto Symphony" project is receiving some nice media attention! The CBC's popular morning radio program, Metro Morning, aired an interview with composer and project mastermind Tod Machover on the morning of June 14. Click here to listen. The Toronto Star has invited its readers to send in their "sounds of Toronto" and plans to report …
Toronto: Launch rehearsal
Wow! What an invigorating and wonderful experience to hear Tod and eight musicians from the Toronto Symphony Orchestra get up on the ideacity stage on Thursday and perform brand-new music, created as the cornerstone for the Concerto for Composer and Orchestra. As Tod explained to the ideacity audience, he composed a chord progression one week ago, …
Musical Experiences for the 21st Century
A Toronto Symphony Composer Tod Machover's project with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, "A Toronto Symphony: Concerto for Composer and City", was officially launched today at the ideacity conference 2012. In the trailer video above, Tod explains that the composition will consist of "Me, You and (H)ours" - music based on what he sends out to …
A Toronto Symphony to launch at ideacity 2012
Tod Machover's A Toronto Symphony project will officially launch in Toronto on June 14 at ideacity, billed as "‘Canada’s Premier Meeting of the Minds’...an eclectic gathering of artists, adventurers, authors, cosmologists, doctors, designers, entertainers, filmmakers, inventors, magicians, musicians, scientists and technologists." Joined by musicians from the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Tod will present the overall concept …
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All Music review of Tod Machover’s CD “…but not simpler…”
We stumbled across another excellent review of Tod Machover's latest CD "...but not simpler..." on AllMusic.com. They totally get what the music is about: ...Machover never loses sight of the emotional side of music that engages the listener naturally, viscerally...For anyone who is tempted to dismiss all modern music as "strange" or inaccessible, this album will prove …
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Project Toronto – Genesis (Interview with Gary Kulesha)
Interview by Jennifer Green, Project Manager for the 2013 New Creation’s Festival A Toronto Symphony project. Every March the Toronto Symphony Orchestra presents the New Creations Festival. Season curator and composer, Tod Machover, will create a new work that will be premiered by the orchestra in Roy Thomson Hall on March 9, 2013. The work will be …
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Notes from Ithaca
A couple of weeks ago, Tod gave a keynote at the "Music: Cognition, Technology Society" conference at Cornell University. Tyran Grillo just posted this thorough summary at Sequenza 21, a blog devoted to contemporary classical music. He write: "Music: Cognition, Technology, Society set a formidable intellectual task before participants of the selfsame conference at semester’s end on the quieting …
Gramophone Reviews Tod Machover’s latest CD
The venerable Gramophone, which bills itself "The world's unrivalled authority on classical music since 1923," just came out with an excellent review of Tod Machover's most recent CD, "...but not simpler..." The review notes that Machover's technological innovations, such as Hyperinstruments and Hyperorchestra, "have crucial and winning impacts on the expressive possibilities of Machover's music, as can …
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A Visit from musikFabrik
The delightful folks from Germany's musikFabrik dropped by the MIT Media Lab yesterday for a chat with Tod Machover and a chance to see some of the music technology developed there. The Cologne-based ensemble was in town to rehearse for tomorrow night's concert at Harvard's Paine Hall, where they will perform six new works by …
Opera of the Future 