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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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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Tod Machover is on the cover of this month's International Arts Manager magazine (London-based), which also has a really good feature article about the "A Toronto Symphony" project and its implications: According to Machover the Internet has opened up participation on a scale that at the moment we can’t fully appreciate. ‘We have a voice through …
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Here's a feature in the UK's The Guardian about the Toronto Symphony project. Good to see that word has made it across the pond. Check out: The orchestra as mass collaboration
Starting at midnight November 13, New York City's classical music station WQXR will be airing a 24-hour marathon in honor of the late Elliott Carter. Listen to the Elliott Carter marathon here Tod Machover pays tribute to his most important mentor in a series of interviews with a diverse group of people, including Fred Sherry, …
From Tod Machover's Facebook page: "Terrific new pictures by photographer Jean-Claude Dhien, taken at the MIT Media Lab last month. They were commissioned by France's Télérama magazine, which for some reason decided to run a totally different set of images for their story last week. I prefer these!!!"
Tod spoke yesterday at Wired 2012, a conference curated by Wired UK magazine to "explore the ideas, innovations and people that are reshaping our world." The magazine's write-up about Tod's presentation is now available online and quotes some remarks about the current project in Toronto: "When Toronto Symphony Orchestra asked me to write a symphony, I …
"...But Not Simpler..." is on the cover of the current issue of Fanfare magazine. Fanfare also houses a collection of articles about Tod Machover's music. Here's a terrific interview by Carson Cooman that provides excellent background on Tod's work along with some interesting observations. We like this: Whatever the next directions his work takes, there’s no …
WIRED UK was at the MIT Media Lab last week to do a photo shoot. The Lab - including the Opera of the Future group - will be prominently featured in an upcoming issue.
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 …
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