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I Hear Lucerne: Opera of the Future's New Collaborative Symphony

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Tod Machover @ Lucerne Festival 2015

LocationLucerne, Switzerland Description8/23 | Tribute to Boulez 6: Re-Structures for Two Pianos and Live Electronics (world premiere)8/29 …

Sunday — Saturday
August 23, 2015 —
September 5, 2015
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Miami “city symphony” announced

Composer Tod Machover’s ground-breaking “city symphony” projects, which involve entire urban communities in collaborating to create sonic p…

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Symphony for the Koreas

Symphony for the Koreas will be the latest installment of the celebrated City Symphony series. Over the next few years, Tod Machover and hi…

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Member collaboration: Symphony Painter

An add-on, music composition product for Pixter Color, a digital drawing toy for children.

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Premiere of "A Toronto Symphony"

LocationToronto Symphony Orchestra, Roy Thomson Hall DescriptionTSO Music Director Peter Oundjian leads the world première of A Toronto Sym…

Sunday — Saturday
March 10, 2013 —
March 9, 2013
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Chomsky Suite + A Toronto Symphony

Arts at MIT will present two works by Tod Machover.

Friday — Saturday
May 8, 2020 —
May 9, 2020
7:00pm — 7:00pm ET
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World Premiere: Symphony in D

LocationDetroit, MI DescriptionA Symphony for Detroit. By Detroit. Leonard Slatkin leads the world premiere of Tod Machover's "Symphony in …

Friday
November 20, 2015
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Live Webcast: Symphony in D

LocationLive Webcast DescriptionA Symphony for Detroit. By Detroit. Leonard Slatkin leads the world premiere of Tod Machover's 'Symphony in…

Sunday — Saturday
November 22, 2015 —
November 21, 2015
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Toy Symphony

Toy Symphony combines children, virtuosic soloists, composers, and symphony orchestras around the world to alter radically how children are…

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Launching Symphony in D: A Collaborative Symphony by and for Detroit

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The Sound of (New) Music: Tod Machover Debuts Multiple New Works at Prestigious Lucerne Festival

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Dallas Symphony Orchestra launches new Jeanne R. Johnson Education Center

The new Center will provide music education to students across North Texas, in cooperation with the Media Lab's Opera of the Future group.

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Tod Machover

Muriel R. Cooper Professor of Music and Media; Academic Head, Program in Media Arts and Sciences

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Detroit Symphony Tackles an Adventurous Premiere

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…

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New City Symphony projects featured in The Atlantic

Turning Street Noise Into a City SymphonyAn MIT composer is collecting snippets of sound to turn Miami and Philadelphia into audio masterpi…

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Kimaya Lecamwasam, Opera of the Future PhD student, will discuss “Light, Loneliness and Creativity” at Boston Symphony Hall

Panelists will consider the dynamic interplay between light and creativity and their combined impact on our emotional health.

Wednesday
February 28, 2024
7:00pm — 8:00pm ET
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Toronto gets the symphony treatment

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New app to weave Philadelphia sounds into a symphony

This app allows Philadelphia users to make recordings and submit them for the City Symphonies project.

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Imaging method reveals a “symphony of cellular activities”

Fluorescent imaging technique simultaneously captures different signal types from multiple locations in a live cell.

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City to light up for “A Toronto Symphony”

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New symphony features the sounds of Toronto

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Sparkler: An Audio-Driven Interactive Live Computer Performance for Symphony Orchestra.

Jehan, T., Machover, T., Fabio, M.

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Boosey & Hawkes posts score for A Toronto Symphony

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Tod Machover: Composer's social media symphony for Toronto

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Sounds of the city: Toronto orchestra debuts interactive symphony

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Help Tod Machover Compose A Toronto Symphony

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A Toronto Symphony: Concerto for Composer and City Launched

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CN Tower to make Toronto Symphony Orchestra début on Saturday night

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A Toronto Symphony composer Tod Machover keeps adding interaction weeks before premiere

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Musical visionary Tod Machover crowd-sourced a symphony for Toronto—now other cities want one too

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Laird Nolan

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Ariane Martins

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Tristan Jehan

Former Research Assistant

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Crowdsourcing Meets Music for Symphonies of the Future

With the Collaborative City Symphony project, Machover encourages individuals to capture the sounds of their cities and convey how they fee…

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Toy Symphony to Have U.S. Premiere April 26 at MIT

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New Color Pixter Symphony Painter Software is Based on Critically Acclaimed MIT Media Lab Software

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Sheila Hayman

Former Director's Fellow

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Q&A: Composer Tod Machover presents “Philadelphia Voices”

Ambitious new piece in his “City Symphony” series features the birthplace of American democracy.

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Opera of the Future

The Opera of the Future group (formerly known as Hyperinstruments) explores concepts and techniques to help advance the future of musical c…

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Boston Mayor Michelle Wu asks SA+P advanced degree recipients to be forces for good in Boston and beyond

Media Lab professor Tod Machover performed a new musical composition, "A Little Hub Symphony," during the SA+P advanced degree ceremony.

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Opera of the Future @ BSO's Music for the Senses Festival

Listen to the panel discussions and concerts happening in Symphony Hall as part of this festival!

Saturday — Wednesday
April 6, 2024 —
April 10, 2024
6:15pm — 9:30pm ET
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Cancelled: MITSO MOVIES MACHOVER

This latest concert produced by CAST brings together the music of film soundtracks with Tod Machover’s A Toronto Symphony.

Friday
March 13, 2020
8:00pm ET
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Mummers and sizzling Philly cheesesteaks get their Philadelphia Orchestra moment

Suffering for art took on frigid new meaning for composer Tod Machover while creating his new symphony for the Philadelphia Orchestra.

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Tod Machover: IAMM keynote talk links

​ Some links to accompany a talk on “Possible Futures for Music and Medicine.”

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Giving Voice to Philadelphians

Tod Machover shares his insights into the creation and community of "Philadelphia Voices."

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Voices from all over Philly will fuel a Philadelphia Orchestra performance

"Philadelphia Voices" in the birthplace of American democracy.

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Innovative composer hopes to unify the Koreas: Through his work, Tod Machover has shown the power of music, technology

Opera of the Future head Tod Machover talks to Korea JoongAng Daily about “Symphony for the Koreas.”

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Peace workshop, concert connect experts, youth on Jeju Island

Opera of the Future head Tod Machover reflects on the recent peace workshop and concert on Jeju Island

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Shuguang Zhang elected to Erwin Schrödinger Society for Nanosciences

Zhang has also been invited to deliver the 20th Schrödinger lecture on December 17, 2021.

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Boulez’s shocker from midcentury, and the waves it made

Mahler once quipped that “tradition” often represents nothing more than lazy, outdated habits of mind. In the postwar years, the composer, …

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Thick Psychophysiology for Empathic Design

Hedman, E. "Thick Psychophysiology for Empathic Design"

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Overstory Overture

Machover’s Overstory Overture is a 30-minute work, for a single voice, chamber ensemble, and electronics.

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Premiere of Tod Machover's Overstory Overture

Machover’s Overstory Overture is a 30-minute work, for a single voice, chamber ensemble, and electronics.

Tuesday
March 7, 2023
7:30pm ET
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Meet the Labbers: Rébecca Kleinberger

"I like to think of the voice and all the sound from our bodies as some kind of rhythm of life and music of life."

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Research as a Community-Building Activity

Boyden, E. S. (2008) "Research as a Community-Building Activity." Ed Boyden's Blog. Technology Review. 7/28/08. (http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/boyden/22102/).

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Yannick Nézet-Séguin discusses new Machover project

In this interview, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, discusses Tod Machover’s “Philadelphia Voices,” a work co…

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A Graphical Environment for Gestural Computer-Aided Composition

Pasztor, E. "A Graphical Environment for Gestural Computer-Aided Composition"

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The Beatbug Network — A Rhythmic System for Interdependent Group Collaboration.

Weinberg, G., Aimi R., Jennings, K.

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AI: What does it mean? And how is it making these decisions?

In an interview with Chamber Music America, Media Lab Professor Tod Machover talks about AI and music.

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City Symphonies: Massive musical collaboration

The City Symphony project by the Opera of the Future group brings creative musical participation to everyone while encouraging collaboratio…

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Hyperscore

Music software that lets anyone compose music. The first music software program designed to teach students and adults how to compose music …

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Composer's Remarks: ....but not simpler...

By Tod MachoverFor the past five years or so, I’ve been working on some wild and unusual operas (the last one featured robots—or “Operabots…

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Media Lab Perspectives: Why Do We Want Our Computers to Improvise? with George Lewis

Professor Tod Machover will welcome George Lewis, Edwin H. Case Professor of American Music at Columbia University.

Thursday
April 29, 2021
12:00pm — 1:00pm ET
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Towards New Musics: What the future holds for sound creativity

Tod Machover and Charles Holbrow discuss how they're building the tools and platforms for a culture of living music

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Media Lab Perspectives: Why Do We Want Our Computers to Improvise? with George Lewis

Thursday April 29, 2021 …