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Photo Flash: Music-Theatre Group Chats With Julie Taymor and Elliot Goldenthal - Broadway World

Photo Flash: Music-Theatre Group Chats With Julie Taymor and Elliot Goldenthal
Broadway World
... Paulus and Weiner, Swimming With Watermelons (2000-01), Best Of Both Worlds, composed by Diedre Murray (2002-05), and Death And The Powers (finalist, 2012 Pulitzer Prize) with composer Tod Machover and librettist Robert Pinsky.

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Music: Cognition, Technology, Society - Sequenza21


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Music: Cognition, Technology, Society
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The conference will spotlight Tod Machover (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) in a dual-role as guest composer and keynote speaker. Other keynote speakers include Eric Clarke (University of Oxford), Ichiro Fujinaga (McGill University) and Robert ...
Things to Do, May 11-18 Cornell Chronicle

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[Arts-announce] Don't miss Yesterday Happened: Remembering HM - Fenway News Online

[Arts-announce] Don't miss Yesterday Happened: Remembering HM
Fenway News Online
Tod Machover. There is an MIT discount code (MITID). For tickets, visit the Central Sq. website: At the age of 27, Henry Molaison became frozen in time. After experimental brain surgery, HM (as he was known to the scientific community) was unable to ...

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Asia's Entertainment Digerati and Music A-Listers Convene at the Week That Matters - MarketWatch (press release)

Asia's Entertainment Digerati and Music A-Listers Convene at the Week That Matters
MarketWatch (press release)
These will be conducted by Bob Ezrin, Music and Entertainment Producer; John Meglen, President and Co-CEO, Concerts West/ AEG Live; Tod Machover, Professor of Music and Media, MIT Media Lab; Chuck Comeau, drummer for award winning punk rock band Simple ...

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Asia's Entertainment Digerati and Music A-Listers Convene at the Week That Matters - EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)

Asia's Entertainment Digerati and Music A-Listers Convene at the Week That Matters
EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)
These will be conducted by Bob Ezrin, Music and Entertainment Producer; John Meglen, President and Co-CEO, Concerts West/ AEG Live; Tod Machover, Professor of Music and Media, MIT Media Lab; Chuck Comeau, drummer for award winning punk rock band Simple ...

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6 Ways MIT's Media Lab Envisions the Opera of the Future - BostInno

6 Ways MIT's Media Lab Envisions the Opera of the Future
BostInno
To see some of the technology in action, check out this video of Tod Machover's new opera Death and the Powers, which had its US premiere in Boston and Chicago last spring. Machover is the head of the Media Lab's Opera of the Future.

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Austin Pendleton Directs Boston Midsummer Opera's DON PASQUALE, 7/25-29 - Broadway World

Austin Pendleton Directs Boston Midsummer Opera's DON PASQUALE, 7/25-29
Broadway World
He made his New York City Opera debut in Strauss's Intermezzo, and his European debut at Monte Carlo's Salle Garnier in the world premiere of Tod Machover's Death and the Powers which subsequently traveled to Chicago Opera Theater and the American ...

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Crowdsourced piano-playing lets you choose the tune - New Scientist (blog)


New Scientist (blog)
Crowdsourced piano-playing lets you choose the tune
New Scientist (blog)
The piece was "an experiment in collaborative improvisation", says composer and lab director Tod Machover. People at home could listen to ten clips of music from Bach to the Beatles and rate their preferences. If listeners said, "This is nice, ...

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Talk Like An Opera Geek: Pioneering An American Sound - WWNO

Talk Like An Opera Geek: Pioneering An American Sound
WWNO
And then there are the operatic futurists, like Tod Machover, the MIT professor and creator of hyperinstruments, whose opera Death and the Powers (Boston, 2011) features robots, a musical chandelier and a protagonist who uploads himself into a system ...

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Julie Taymor, Diane Paulus and More Set for Music-Theatre Group Talks, 5/17 & 6/7 - Broadway World

Julie Taymor, Diane Paulus and More Set for Music-Theatre Group Talks, 5/17 & 6/7
Broadway World
... Paulus and Weiner, Swimming With Watermelons (2000-01), Best Of Both Worlds, composed by Diedre Murray (2002-05), and Death And The Powers (finalist, 2012 Pulitzer Prize) with composer Tod Machover and librettist Robert Pinsky.

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