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

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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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Toronto gets the symphony treatment

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

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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
Project

City Science Lab @ Toronto

City Science Lab Toronto was established in cooperation with Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada.  It  started in 2018 and is t…

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Festival City Premiere

LocationUsher Hall, Edinburgh Description

Tuesday
August 27, 2013
Article

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

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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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"Of Experience" Premiere in Montreal

LocationMontreal Symphony Description Work Featured ByTod Machover

Sunday — Saturday
May 17, 2015 —
May 16, 2015
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Tod Machover @ University of Toronto

LocationJackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto Description

Thursday
May 9, 2013
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Death and the Powers Premiere

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

Friday — Sunday
September 24, 2010 —
September 26, 2010
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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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Death and the Powers US Premiere

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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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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
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Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao @ FITC Toronto 2017

Presentation on Hybrid Body Craft @ FITC Toronto 2017

Sunday — Tuesday
April 23, 2017 —
April 25, 2017
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Rosalind Picard @ University of Toronto Distinguished Lecture Series

How Affective Computing can Change our Future HealthAbstract:AI – including machine learning providing emotional intelligence - is becoming…

Thursday
October 31, 2019
11:00am — 12:00pm ET
Person

Tod Machover

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

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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.

Project

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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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

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Sidewalk Labs’ city-of-the future in Toronto was a stress test we needed

Richard Lachman writes that Sidewalk Labs’ “city-of-the-future” proposal provided an chance to consider the best ways to protect privacy

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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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Toronto's Theme Song

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Designing Decay: Calculus of an Infinite Rot at the Rhubarb Festival, Toronto

Andrea Shin Ling, a former architect, thinks that rather than fighting against decay, designers should embrace it.

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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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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.

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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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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.

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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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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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This Toronto-based nonprofit provides creative education to over 2,000 children in rural India

Co-founded by alum Srishti Sethi, Unstructured Studio provides free and low-cost creative learning opportunities to students in India.

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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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Sounds of a City: A New Template For Collaboration in Toronto

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Tod Machover: What does Toronto sound like anyway?

Publication

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

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

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

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Opera News Review of Death and the Powers Premiere

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Two Machover Compositions to Premiere

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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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Laird Nolan

Person

Hossein Rahnama

Visiting Associate Professor

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Ariane Martins

Person

Tristan Jehan

Former Research Assistant

Article

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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Orchestra’s new crowdsourced choral work features ‘Philadelphia Voices’

This week, the Philadelphia Orchestra premieres a new musical composition about its home city, by the city — in a way.

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Margaret Church

Program Manager

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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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Overstory Overture

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

Article

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

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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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Cayden Pierce

Research Assistant

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Madeline Sayet

Former Director's Fellow