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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On his recent journey to Singapore, Tod met more than the usual quota of intriguing figures from the world of music and digital entertainment. One of them was Bob Lefsetz, an entertainment lawyer whose take-no-prisoners blog Lefsetz Letter is reputed to be the most widely read in the music industry. Described by Wired magazine as …
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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"I have just come to the end of two of the most exciting (and longest) weeks of my career," writes Peter Higgin, enrichment director at Punchdrunk. Writing in The Guardian, Higgin describes the culmination of the U.K. theater group's collaboration with our team at the MIT Media Lab to create an online enhancement for the hit New York …
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Tod has been attending Music Matters, part of the All That Matters conference that just wrapped up in Singapore. Top executives and creatives from major players in the global music industry get to mingle over five days at what conference organizers describe as a gathering of "all that matters in music, entertainment, technology and media." We previously posted …
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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Tod is currently attending Music Matters, part of the All That Matters conference going on this week in Singapore. Top executives and creatives from major players in the global music industry get to mingle over five days at what conference organizers describe as a gathering of "all that matters in music, entertainment, technology and media." …
A one-stop-shop for performing organizations interested in Tod Machover's "Sparkler", a work for orchestra and electronics. "Machover’s controlled venturesomeness in terms of rhythm, tempo, and dynamics makes the music so scintillating that “Fireworks” would have been a likelier title for this work..." - Phil Muse “Sparkler (2007) sparkles. There’s a wealth of color-drenched details: virtuosic wind passages juxtaposed …
Some music enthusiast ripped this footage from an episode of Scientific American Frontiers (around 2002) and posted it on YouTube. Host Alan Alda narrates (and sings!), while violinist Joshua Bell jams on a hyperviolin developed for Tod Machover's Toy Symphony project. Enjoy!
A one-stop-shop for performing organizations interested in Tod Machover's "Jeux Deux", a work for orchestra, Yamaha Disklavier and electronics. Machover utilizes his “hyperpiano” concept, in which the grand piano, played with consummate sensitivity by Paul Chertock, interacts with the Yamaha Disklavier in a way that augments, transforms and splinters the music, sometimes releasing a volley of pre-composed notes in …
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