Event

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
Event

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
Article

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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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
Article

Musical worlds collide with BLO’s world premiere of “Schoenberg in Hollywood”

An enticing historical drama explores the conflict between maintaining artistic integrity and an artist’s longing to reach a wider audience.

Article

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

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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
Event

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
Article

Miami “city symphony” announced

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

Event

Festival City Premiere

LocationUsher Hall, Edinburgh Description

Tuesday
August 27, 2013
Article

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

Project

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…

Event

"Of Experience" Premiere in Montreal

LocationMontreal Symphony Description Work Featured ByTod Machover

Sunday — Saturday
May 17, 2015 —
May 16, 2015
Event

Death and the Powers Premiere

LocationOpéra Garnier de Monte-Carlo Description Host/Chair: Tod Machover

Friday — Sunday
September 24, 2010 —
September 26, 2010
Article

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

Post

Synthetic:Sync film premiere at the 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

Post

Member collaboration: Symphony Painter

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

Article

Death and the Powers US Premiere

Event

Schoenberg in Hollywood: European premiere at the Volksoper

Machover's opera will be produced at the Volksoper Wien in Vienna exactly two years from when it was originally scheduled in April 2020.

Saturday — Sunday
April 9, 2022 —
April 24, 2022
Event

Schoenberg in Hollywood: Asian premiere at the Chinese University of Hong Kong

The Chinese University of Hong Kong will present the Asian premiere of Professor Tod Machover’s Schoenberg in Hollywood on Nov. 4, 2023

Saturday
November 4, 2023
Video

#50 Death and the Powers Premiere

Tod Machover describes the premiere of his recent opera, Death and the Powers.

Post

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…

Project

Toy Symphony

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

Person

Tod Machover

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

Post

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.

Post

Danielle Wood and Space Enabled group host Boston premiere of Zero Gravity

As part of the Boston Film Festival, the documentary Zero Gravity will have its Boston premiere in a screening at the MIT Media Lab.

Event

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
Article

Toronto gets the symphony treatment

Article

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.

Article

Imaging method reveals a “symphony of cellular activities”

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

Article

City to light up for “A Toronto Symphony”

Article

New symphony features the sounds of Toronto

Article

Boosey & Hawkes posts score for A Toronto Symphony

Publication

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

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

Article

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

Article

Tod Machover: Composer's social media symphony for Toronto

Article

Sounds of the city: Toronto orchestra debuts interactive symphony

Article

Help Tod Machover Compose A Toronto Symphony

Article

Opera News Review of Death and the Powers Premiere

Article

A Toronto Symphony: Concerto for Composer and City Launched

Person

Sheila Hayman

Former Director's Fellow

Article

CN Tower to make Toronto Symphony Orchestra début on Saturday night

Article

Two Machover Compositions to Premiere

Person

Gillian Caldwell

Former Director's Fellow

Post

Tod Machover: IAMM keynote talk links

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

Post

Overstory Overture

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

Video

Future Worlds

Our goal is for society to work for 100% of humanity and for all living beings, so they can thrive—here on Earth and in worlds beyond.

Person

Laird Nolan

Project

Closer Worlds

Computer-mediated forms of communication (i.e., social media, texting) have quickly become the predominant way that we keep in touch w…

Article

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

Project

WorldBeat: Hearing the world differently

Can we modulate the way we hear the world around us to make it more calming or to induce focus? While technology is usually associated with…

Person

Ariane Martins

Event

A to A: A World in Harmony

LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 and Aram Khatchaturyan Hall in Yerevan, Armenia DescriptionThe concert pioneers a collaborative music compos…

Saturday
February 25, 2012
Group

Emerging Worlds

The Emerging Worlds SIG is focused on emerging opportunities to address pressing challenges, and leapfrog existing solutions. Emerging Worl…

Group

Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds

The Challenge: To secure a sustainable future for all living thingsHow can we reduce harm to our planet and the future prospects of life on…

Person

Tristan Jehan

Former Research Assistant

Series

ML Research Theme: Future Worlds

We’ll create transformative technologies, experiences, and systems that address the dual challenge of climate change and energy.

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Event

Kings of the World film screening

Kings of the World is an intimate musical portrait of a reclusive gipsy community in the South of France, which has produced world-famous m…

Wednesday
April 12, 2017
6:00pm — 7:30pm ET
Event

Gastronomy: Trends in a changing world

Adela Balderas from Deusto Business School and the Basque Culinary Center speaks on gastronomy and how eating habits affect society. Focusi…

Thursday
June 15, 2023
12:00pm — 1:30pm ET
Event

KnittedKeyboard at the World Economic Forum

KnittedKeyboard will be presented as part of an interactive exhibition at the interface of of science and creativity.

Monday — Saturday
January 20, 2020 —
January 25, 2020
Event

Tod Machover @ World Economic Forum

LocationDavos, Switzerland Description1/21, 2:30pm: Tod Machover and Paola Antonelli of MoMA, "Digital Creativity"1/21, 8:00pm: Vocal Vibra…

Wednesday — Sunday
January 21, 2015 —
January 25, 2015
Event

Natan Linder @ Augmented World Expo

LocationSanta Clara, CA Description

Tuesday
June 4, 2013
Article

What in the World is the Metaverse?

Joe Paradiso talks to Data Nation podcast hosts Liberty Vittert and Scott Tranter about the metaverse - what it is and what it isn't.

Article

A portfolio that’s out of this world

Following an influential career at NASA, Ezinne Uzo-Okoro SM ’20, PhD ’22 now shapes space policy as a top White House advisor.

Event

How Cloud and AI Are Changing the World

Discover how Google’s Cloud Platform, machine learning, and artificial intelligence are helping industries from healthcare to retail to fin…

Monday
April 9, 2018
1:00pm — 2:00pm ET
Publication

The World Wide Web in an Analog Patchbay

Haddad, D. D., & Paradiso, J. A. (2019). The World Wide Web in an Analog Patchbay. In NIME (pp. 407-410).