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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You never know what you'll stumble across on the Internet. This week's buried treasure come to light is this video clip from a presentation Tod Machover gave in 1996 at Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria. Visitors to the famous electronic arts festival had an opportunity to explore the interactive installation and take in a live …
Tod Machover's latest album, "...but not simpler...", goes on sale today over Amazon and iTunes. Check out Tod's official website for audio clips, photos, video and links related to the music on the CD. '…but not simpler…,' Machover writes, 'sounds like modern life, with glimpses of equilibrium that feel straightforward and well-earned, but hopefully not …
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Tod sends Halloween greetings from the fair city of Montreal, where he was paying a weekend visit to catch up with friends and check out the new concert hall. Took in an afternoon concert with the Montreal Symphony under the baton of maestro Kent Nagano. Did you know that Tod and Kent go back to …
The score for Tod Machover's 'Sparkler' (2001), for orchestra and electronics, is now available to view and order online through Boosey & Hawkes. Also available are the scores for 'Jeux Deux' (2005) and 'Skellig - Opera in 2 acts'. Here are audio clips from Sparkler. The recording will be available very soon on a new …
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As we enter the final week of our Kickstarter campaign, with just under $2,500 left to reach our goal, we are delighted and honored to have Tod's music and CD project featured on the Kickstarter blog. The interviewer asked excellent questions and put together a very entertaining article. Enjoy, and thank you for helping us …
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Tod is just back from a whirlwind trip to London where he brainstormed with director Braham Murray, his collaborator on Resurrection and Skellig, about new opera and theater concepts, and launched a new project with theater group Punchdrunk (more soon on these soon). But first he swung by the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden …
Tod Machover is completing work on a new Bridge Records CD called ...but not simpler.... The album draws from Tod's instrumental works composed over the past decade, including "Sparkler" (commissioned by the American Composers Orchestra and premiered at Carnegie Hall), "Jeux Deux" (commissioned by the Boston Pops and premiered at Boston Symphony Hall), "...but not simpler" …
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This just in from Tod Machover's Facebook: "Finished the DEATH AND THE POWERS recording today with two fabulous sessions. All the singers, the BMOP players, conductor Gil Rose, and the whole recording and tech team did an amazing job. I am SO happy that the music is in the can; now we enter the editing …
If you're in Boston in early October, check out this event at the Museum of Fine Arts: Mixed Taste: Tag-team Lectures on Unrelated Topics: Robot Opera and Clam Chowder Huh? You may well ask. What do operatic robots have to do with chopped clams simmered with onions in a creamy broth? We don't know, and …
Opera of the Future 