LocationOpéra Garnier de Monte-Carlo Description Host/Chair: Tod Machover
Tod Machover describes the premiere of his recent opera, Death and the Powers.
The themes and concerns of Death and the Powers seem even more relevant and resonant than when the opera premiered a decade ago.
Check out a preview of Professor Tod Machover’s latest opera, Death and the Powers, which will premiere in Monaco in September and then tou…
LocationBrattle Theater, 40 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA DescriptionComposer and MIT Media Lab professor Tod Machover will be on hand on h…
Gramophone contributor Laurence Vittes spotlights Tod Machover’s “Death and the Powers,” an opera about robots and humans.
LocationThe Dallas Opera DescriptionThe Dallas Opera presents a new production of Tod Machover's Death and the Powers, February 12-16. This…
Death and the Powers is a groundbreaking opera that brings a variety of technological, conceptual, and aesthetic innovations to the th…
LocationART at the Cutler Majestic Theater, Boston Description
Jessop, E., Torpey, P., Bloomberg, B. NIME’11, 30 May–1 June 2011, Oslo, Norway
There is a subtle air of complicity amongst the music-loving audience.
Torpey, Peter. (2014). Digital systems for live multimodal performance in Death and the Powers. International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media. 8. 109-123. 10.1386/padm.8.1.109_1.
Machover, T.
LocationNorthwestern University, McCormick School of Engineering Description
Former Head of Strategic Partnerships
Machover’s Overstory Overture is a 30-minute work, for a single voice, chamber ensemble, and electronics.
Muriel R. Cooper Professor of Music and Media; Academic Head, Program in Media Arts and Sciences
Death and the Powers: Global Interactive Simulcast
Torpey, P., Bloomberg, B.
Former Producer of Special Projects
Former Research Affiliate
LocationUsher Hall, Edinburgh Description
LocationToronto Symphony Orchestra, Roy Thomson Hall DescriptionTSO Music Director Peter Oundjian leads the world première of A Toronto Sym…
LocationDetroit, MI DescriptionA Symphony for Detroit. By Detroit. Leonard Slatkin leads the world premiere of Tod Machover's "Symphony in …
LocationMontreal Symphony Description Work Featured ByTod Machover
Former Research Affiliate
Machover's opera will be produced at the Volksoper Wien in Vienna exactly two years from when it was originally scheduled in April 2020.
As part of the Boston Film Festival, the documentary Zero Gravity will have its Boston premiere in a screening at the MIT Media Lab.
The film was a semi-finalist at the Flickers Rhode Island Film Festival and will be released online following a private screening at the Lab
How your company is killing innovation.
The Chinese University of Hong Kong will present the Asian premiere of Professor Tod Machover’s Schoenberg in Hollywood on Nov. 4, 2023
The composer Tod Machover sat on the floor in a circle of third graders one recent morning at the brightly colored, mural-filled Detroit Ac…
New research published in the International Journal of Communication
Zuckerman, E., Matias, J., Bhargava, R., Bermejo, F., & Ko, A. (2019). Whose Death Matters? A Quantitative Analysis of Media Attention to Deaths of Black Americans in Police Confrontations, 2013–2016. International Journal Of Communication, 13, 27. Retrieved from https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/8782
In order to understand how exogenous shocks, like death, impact memorability by remembering, we use a data-set of biographies from Wikipedi…
Some links to accompany a talk on “Possible Futures for Music and Medicine.”
An enticing historical drama explores the conflict between maintaining artistic integrity and an artist’s longing to reach a wider audience.
Exploring the concept of rebirth
We’re devastated by the news that Bassel Khartabil Safadi, an open source developer, has been executed by the Syrian government.
The Powers Sensor Chair gives visitors a special glimpse into Tod Machover�s robotic opera "Death and the Powers," by providing a new way t…
FOR THOUSANDS OF years, the living have used death masks to memorialize their dead. Some, like those cast from the faces of Napolean Bonapa…
Music | Machines - Professor Tod Machover in conversation with the team from Death and the Powers.
Dong, W. "Biologically Inspired Robots for Stage Performance"
Machover’s Overstory Overture is a 30-minute work, for a single voice, chamber ensemble, and electronics.