LocationThe Dallas Opera DescriptionThe Dallas Opera presents a new production of Tod Machover's Death and the Powers, February 12-16. This…
LocationBrattle Theater, 40 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA DescriptionComposer and MIT Media Lab professor Tod Machover will be on hand on h…
LocationOpéra Garnier de Monte-Carlo Description Host/Chair: Tod Machover
The themes and concerns of Death and the Powers seem even more relevant and resonant than when the opera premiered a decade ago.
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.
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…
Gramophone contributor Laurence Vittes spotlights Tod Machover’s “Death and the Powers,” an opera about robots and humans.
Tod Machover describes the premiere of his recent opera, Death and the Powers.
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
Death and the Powers: Global Interactive Simulcast
Torpey, P., Bloomberg, B.
Former Producer of Special Projects
Former Research Affiliate
Former Research Affiliate
How your company is killing innovation.
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
Muriel R. Cooper Professor of Music and Media; Academic Head, Program in Media Arts and Sciences
In order to understand how exogenous shocks, like death, impact memorability by remembering, we use a data-set of biographies from Wikipedi…
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.
FOR THOUSANDS OF years, the living have used death masks to memorialize their dead. Some, like those cast from the faces of Napolean Bonapa…
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…
Music | Machines - Professor Tod Machover in conversation with the team from Death and the Powers.
Dong, W. "Biologically Inspired Robots for Stage Performance"
Torpey, P. "Disembodied Performance: Abstraction of Representation in Live Theater"
The Opera of the Future group (formerly known as Hyperinstruments) explores concepts and techniques to help advance the future of musical c…
POWERSTRUCTURES : the urban form of regulations, Noyman, Ariel, Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 2015.; Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.; Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-236).
Some links to accompany a talk on “Possible Futures for Music and Medicine.”
My UROP in the Opera of the Future lab
Former Research Assistant
Former Research Assistant
Former Research Assistant
Peter Alexander Torpey and Elena Naomi Jessop. 2009. Disembodied performance. CHI '09 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 3685–3690. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/1520340.1520555
D. Adjodah, et al (2021) Association between COVID-19 Outcomes and Mask Mandates, Adherence, and Attitudes, PLOS ONE, doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0252315
D. Paluska and H. M. Herr. The effect of series elasticity on actuator power and work output: Implications for robotic and prosthetic joint design, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, vol. 54, pp. 667–673, 2006.
Tune in for the next event of this spring, featuring Frank Baumgartner and Gretchen Sorin, on March 30 at 1pm.
Elizabeth Donner, Orrin Devinsky, and Daniel Friedman; guest editors Stephen H. Friend, Geoffrey S. Ginsburg, Rosalind W. Picard, Jeffrey M. Drazen. "Wearable Digital Health Technology for Epilepsy." New England Journal of Medicine 2024; 390:736-745. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMra2301913
The tech-forward composer Tod Machover has made a chamber opera of Richard Powers’s novel “The Overstory,” featuring Joyce DiDonato.