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Dan Ellsey and Tod Machover featured in new film
Dan Ellsey, a young man with cerebral palsy whose life was transformed when he learned to compose music using Hyperscore, is the subject of a new documentary film, Music is My Voice. Hyperscore was developed by the Opera of the Future group at the M.I.T. Media Lab and featured in this TED Talk by Tod …
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Los Angeles Times on Tod Machover’s vision for personalized music
Los Angeles Times music critic Mark Swed made the 90-minute drive up to Santa Barbara last week to attend Tod Machover's talk on "Music, Mind and Health: Diagnosis, Treatment, and Well-being through Active Sound," one of four lectures he gave recently at the university's Sage Center for the Study of the Mind. In today's issue, Swed …
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Collaborating for a more creative society
The new movie "Anonymous" shows that our culture is more obsessed than ever with celebrity and genius, and that we look for transcendent heroes capable of leading us through the darkness. On the other end, masses of people meet online as "friends" to share intimacies or to solve problems collectively. The truth is that the …
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Music connects teens with Alzheimer patients
Here's a cool article and video from Adam Boulanger's visit last week to Lincoln Park Performing Arts Charter School in Midland, PA. Twenty-one students from the school are being trained to teach Alzheimer's patients to use a music composition tool. They are part of a collaborative research study with the M.I.T. Media Lab, the Cleveland Clinic and …
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TEDx Video of Spheres and Splinters
Bowers & Wilkins put up this post that gives you a chance to hear some of the music from Tod Machover's most recent work, "Spheres and Splinters", debuted in Aldeburgh and London last November. The video is a tad confusing because it mixes in footage from other performers and composers at TEDx Aldeburgh, but it …
Classical Music Magazine on Aldeburgh project
This week's Classical Music Magazine features the "Spheres and Splinters" collaborative work that composer Tod Machover, cellist Peter Gregson, sound designer Ben Bloomerberg and artist collective UVA (UnitedVisualArtists) will be working on during their residency at TEDx Aldeburgh and Aldeburgh's New Music New Media. Here is the article (click to enlarge):
Tod Machover in Aldeburgh, England, Nov 4-12, 2010
Tod Machover is spending the next week and a half in the Aldeburgh, a small English seaside town noted for its association with Benjamin Britten and year-round music events. Tod will be leading the New Music New Media course for emerging professional composers and musicians. Working with Peter Gregson, Ben Bloomberg and United Visual Artists, …
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Opera of the Future 