From Tod Machover's Facebook profile: Terrific launch to the New Creations Festival at the Toronto Symphony last evening. Great crowd (with lots of young people), fun pre-show with Youth Symphony giving excerpts of my A TORONTO SYMPHONY, varied show with my "Jeux Deux", Nicole Lizee's classic videogame-inspired "Arcadiac", and Mason Bates' rocking, resonant "Alternative Energy." …
Rehearsal Pics – “Jeux Deux”
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 …
Instrumentation for “A Toronto Symphony”
In case you are wondering why Tod didn't emerge from his barn-studio for the past two months, he was busy orchestrating "A Toronto Symphony." In this new SoundNotion interview, Tod explains his work process, along with sundry other hot topics from the Media Lab and Opera of the Future. (The interview was recorded over Skype, and you …
In-depth article on Toronto Symphony project
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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Toronto Life spotlights “A Toronto Symphony”
With less than a month (!) to go until the world premiere of "A Toronto Symphony", we're starting to see some press coverage. Check out this excellent feature story in the city's leading general circulation magazine, Toronto Life. To order tickets for the March 9 premiere, click here. It's both fabulous and quite insane," [conductor …
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Hot off the press! “A Toronto Symphony”
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 …
Machover’s Toronto project attracts global attention
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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Musing on a Boston Symphony Orchestra concert
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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December Toronto Visit
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 …
Wanna help write a symphony? There’s an app for that
As the Opera of the Future team heads into the final stretch of its ambitious Toronto Symphony project, it has released a brand-new web application called Media Scores. The system enables anyone to mold sections of composer Tod Machover's music like pieces of sonic clay, save their work, and share them with other users, including Machover. …
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