The MIT Media Lab has posted a terrific interview with Tod Machover and pianist Tae Kim that takes us deeper inside the collaborative process of creating "Festival City". In the interview, Tod also speaks about how the experience is changing him: For Festival City, I have taken a big risk by opening up the compositional process to …
The Scotsman previews “Festival City”
This nice article popped up in The Scotsman! We like this quote: Machover’s Edinburgh project has embraced online participation as far afield as China, Turkey and Thailand. “It’s been a marvellous way of encouraging people to listen to the world around them.” How very John Cage. “Not quite,” Machover argues. “I think what Cage did …
Inside “Festival City” with Wired UK
Wired UK posted this excellent article today that provides an in-depth look at the Festival City project. Included are detailed descriptions of how the music apps work. We loved this: To compose Festival City, which Machover hopes will bring out the contrasts of the city, Machover first invited people to submit raw material that reminded of …
BBC Scotland interview with Tod Machover
From Tod Machover's Facebook: Just did a live interview on BBC Scotland for my FESTIVAL CITY project for the Edinburgh International Festival. We talked about the idea of collecting sounds of the city, mixing those with music, and the hosts had even made their own collage of Edinburgh sounds for me to listen to. You …
The Other Festival at the MIT Media Lab – April 20, 2013
Coming next Saturday at the MIT Media Lab! Open to the community. Download the flyer here: The Other Festival.
City to light up for “A Toronto Symphony”
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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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 …
This week: KQED Interviews with Tod Machover
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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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 …
From Snowbound Waltham…
Big news! Tod emerged from his barn (amid accumulating drifts of snow from the Big Blizzard of '13) with the just-completed manuscript for "A Toronto Symphony". With that behemoth off his plate, looks like he found a free moment to Google around and post on his Facebook page: I just came across this hilarious drawing …
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