Tod Machover - Composer, Inventor, Educator

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“Anyone can create their own original, beautiful, astonishing music.....they just need the right tools..”

Tod Machover
from Discovery TV documentary on Toy Symphony project

Toronto's CN Tower lights up in response to the Toronto Symphony Orchestra City Symphonies: Symphonies without Orchestras
2012–2018

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Flautist Jess Shand plays Breathing Together bathed in cool light Breathing Together
2022

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The title 'Shoenberg in Hollywood' in the style of a classif film Schoenberg in Hollywood
2018

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Introducing A Toronto Symphony at ideacity
2012

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TEDx New England: Mozart and Me: A Radical New Model of Interskill Collaboration
2011

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MIT FAST: Festival of Art, Science, and Technology
2011

Watch at MIT TechTV

Style Boston: Plugged In
WCVB-TV
2011

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Inventing the Opera of the Future
The Economist
2010

Watch at The Economist

Flora
1989

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Miranda’s Aria
from Death and the Powers
2010

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Music for the Masses
Smithsonian Magazine
2010

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Full Interview with Tod Machover
Big Think
2010

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Tod Machover: Following Your Dreams
Imagine It Project
2009

Watch at imagineitproject.com

Profile of Tod Machover
CNN Innovators series
2007

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Releasing the Music in your Head
TED Talk
2008

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Music-Making For All
Technology Review
2007

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Big Thinkers
ZDTV
2003

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

Toy Symphony
Discovery Channel
2003

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Can You Make It On Your Own?
Scientific American Frontiers
2003

Watch at pbs.org

...but not simpler...
A concert created for the Ying Quartet
2006

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Jeux Deux (excerpt)
Boston Pops
2005

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Sparkler (excerpts)
Deutsche-Symphonie Berlin
2002

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Brain Opera at House of Music, Vienna
2000

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Minsky Melodies
from Brain Opera for voices, computer sounds, and animated text
1996/7

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The Hypercello: Tod Machover and Yo-Yo Ma (Studio 7)
1991

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