Event

Catalyst Conversations: Tod Machover and Kevin Esvelt

LocationMIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater DescriptionIn a world capable of destroying itself, composer Tod Machover and evolutionary biologist …

Monday
March 28, 2016
Person

Kevin Esvelt

Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences; NEC Career Development Professor of Computer and Communications

Person

Tod Machover

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

Event

Tod Machover @ Composing Conversations, Dallas

LocationThe Dallas Opera, Hamon Hall Winspear Opera House Description

Tuesday
September 18, 2012
Event

Kevin Esvelt and Ramesh Raskar @ EmTech

LocationMIT Media Lab DescriptionEmTech is your opportunity to discover future trends and to understand the technologies that will drive th…

Tuesday — Thursday
October 18, 2016 —
October 20, 2016
Post

Recordings: Pandemic Response Catalyst Conversations

Part of a collaboration between the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, the Lab’s Community Biotechnology Initiative, and MilliporeSigma

Project

Pandemic Response Catalyst Conversations

The MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, MIT Media Lab’s Community Biotechnology Initiative, and MilliporeSigma—the life …

Event

Kevin Esvelt at TEDxCambridge

LocationBoston Opera House DescriptionTEDxCambridge celebrates the remarkable innovation, creativity, and inspiration found within New Engl…

Thursday
June 9, 2016
Event

Catalyst Conversations: The Transformative Power of Fiber

Catalyst Conversations in partnership with The Foundry presentsThe Transformative Power of FiberResearcher: Irmandy WicaksonoArtist: Cori C…

Wednesday
November 2, 2022
6:00pm — 8:00pm ET
Event

Kevin Esvelt @ Marsilius-Vorlesungen, Universität Heidelberg

Wisely Engineering Shared Ecosystems: Leveraging gene drive to ensure open and community-responsive genetic engineering research …

Thursday
June 1, 2017
4:00pm ET
Person

Kevin Andersen

Former Visiting Scientist, LEGO

Event

Kevin Esvelt testifies before Senate Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Spending Oversight (ETSO)

Professor Esvelt's testimony focused on the risks of identifying pandemic-capable viruses.

Wednesday
August 3, 2022
2:30pm ET
Article

Cracking the Genetic Code with Kevin Esvelt

Kevin Esvelt leads the Sculpting Evolution Group at MIT. Their work explores “evolutionary and ecological engineering and responsive science

Post

Kevin Esvelt selected for the Inverse Future 50

Kevin Esvelt has been named as one of the Inverse Future 50, “a group of 50 people who will be forces of good in the 2020s.”

Article

Lessons Learned on the Road to Pandemic Preparedness | Pandemic Response Catalyst Conversations

Expert panelists discuss lessons learned from COVID-19 and progress made to better prepare our public health systems.

Event

Tod Machover on Stravinsky

Tuesday
February 7, 2017
6:00pm — 7:00pm ET
Event

VALIS: An Opera by Tod Machover

This brand-new production will give audiences the first opportunity in almost 30 years to experience a live performance of this seminal work

Post

M. Ehsan Hoque and Kevin Esvelt named to 2016 list of 35 Innovators Under 35

The people in the 16th annual celebration of young innovators are disrupters and dreamers.

Event

Tod Machover Keynote and Performance @ Dreamers Renegades Visionaries

LocationToronto, Ontario, Canada: Convocation Hall, University of Toronto Description

Saturday
September 22, 2012
Event

Tod Machover @ Moogfest

LocationMoogfest DescriptionParadoxically, technology can enhance musical virtuosity while also allowing anyone – regardless of training or…

Sunday
May 22, 2016
Event

Tod Machover @ RioMarket

LocationRio de Janeiro, Brazil Description

Monday
October 7, 2013
Event

Tod Machover @ ideacity

LocationToronto, Canada Description

Thursday
June 14, 2012
Event

Tod Machover @ TEDxNE

LocationWGBH Studios, Boston MA DescriptionThis event will be streamed live: http://www.tedxnewengland.com/NE/event-info/.

Tuesday
November 1, 2011
Event

Tod Machover @ Chicago Ideas

LocationCadillac Palace Theatre, 151 W. Randolph St., Chicago DescriptionEdison Talks is a specially curated day of mind-bending speakers, …

Friday
October 17, 2014
Event

Tod Machover Keynote @ REMIX

LocationREMIX New York Description

Friday
September 19, 2014
Event

Tod Machover @ Turing Festival

LocationSignet Library, Edinburgh Description

Saturday
August 24, 2013
Event

Tod Machover @ University of Toronto

LocationJackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto Description

Thursday
May 9, 2013
Event

Tod Machover @ ECHO Digital

LocationThe Sage Gateshead, Newcastle, UK Description

Tuesday — Wednesday
June 21, 2011 —
June 22, 2011
Event

Tod Machover @ University of Vermont

LocationUniversity of Vermont Recital Hall DescriptionTod Machover will deliver his talk as part of the Dan and Carole Burack President's D…

Friday
October 14, 2016
Article

Tod Machover—Composer and inventor

From the famous Mummers’ New Year’s Day Parade to the sizzling of celebrated cheesesteaks, acclaimed U.S composer and inventor Tod Machover…

Person

Kevin Wong

Former Research Assistant

Event

Tod Machover on "Revolutionaries"

DescriptionSome of the most distinguished thought leaders in the computing field share their views on technology and how it shapes our mode…

Wednesday — Sunday
February 27, 2013 —
March 3, 2013
Person

Kevin Zeng Hu

Former Research Assistant

Article

Kevin Esvelt to Join the MIT Media Lab

Article

Gramophone reviews Tod Machover's Death and the Powers

Gramophone contributor Laurence Vittes spotlights Tod Machover’s “Death and the Powers,” an opera about robots and humans.

Publication

A Conversation with Tod Machover

Rourke, K.

Person

Kevin Slavin

Former Research Affiliate

Event

Tod Machover @ Penn Humanities Forum: Music, Mastery, and Memory

Description

Wednesday
December 8, 2010
Person

Kevin Mattheus Moerman

Former Research Affiliate

Event

Tod Machover @ Project 305 (Miami)

Location500 17th Street Miami Beach, FL 33139 DescriptionOn December 12, join the New World Symphony (NWS) for the public launch of Project…

Monday
December 12, 2016
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

Tod Machover Keynote @ ITEAC Conference

LocationInternational Theatre Engineering and Architecture Conference, London, UK Description

Sunday
June 8, 2014
Event

Tod Machover @ American Philosophical Society

LocationAmerican Philosophical Society, Philadelphia Description

Saturday
April 27, 2013
Event

Tod Machover @ New Creations Festival

LocationToronto Symphony Orchestra DescriptionTod Machover is curating the Toronto Symphony Orchestra's New Creations Festival. There are a…

Sunday — Sunday
March 3, 2013 —
March 10, 2013
Event

Tod Machover @ Computer History Museum

LocationMountain View, CA Description

Wednesday — Thursday
June 27, 2012 —
June 28, 2012
Event

Tod Machover Keynote @ Digital Matters

LocationThe Ritz-Carlton, Millenia Singapore Description

Tuesday
May 22, 2012
Event

Tod Machover Keynote @ Music Matters

LocationThe Ritz-Carlton, Millenia Singapore Description

Thursday
May 24, 2012
Event

Tod Machover Keynote @ Minsky Conference

LocationCollege of New Jersey Description

Friday
March 30, 2012
Event

Tod Machover @ MIT Composers Forum

LocationMIT Lewis music Library, 160 Memorial Drive Description

Thursday
October 20, 2011
Event

Tod Machover @ Cannes Lions Festival

Description

Thursday
June 23, 2011
Event

Tod Machover @ Lucerne Festival 2015

LocationLucerne, Switzerland Description8/23 | Tribute to Boulez 6: Re-Structures for Two Pianos and Live Electronics (world premiere)8/29 …

Sunday — Saturday
August 23, 2015 —
September 5, 2015
Article

Dallas Opera's Simulcast: Tod Machover's Death and the Powers

There is a subtle air of complicity amongst the music-loving audience.

Person

Kevin Dunnell

Research Assistant

Event

Tod Machover Keynote and Concert: Music and New Media at the Crossroads

LocationUniversity of Missouri Description

Thursday — Friday
October 18, 2012 —
October 19, 2012
Event

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
Article

Tod Machover: GAMMIFIED

Gammified includes stereo electronics that play continuously throughout the piece, with the start of each of the five tracks marked in score

Event

Tod Machover Speaking at Sci-Arc

LocationSouthern California Institute of Architecture DescriptionIntro by Hernan Diaz AlonsoCalled "America's Most Wired Composer" by the L…

Wednesday
March 20, 2013
Article

Gene drives could stop the world's oldest problems. Kevin Esvelt wants to make sure they don't start any.

Esvelt's career has gone from straight science into ethics and safety.

Person

Kevin Davis

Director of Facilities

Event

Tod Machover @ Aspen Ideas Festival

LocationAspen, Colorado Description

Saturday
June 29, 2013
Article

Beyond Malaria: Kevin Esvelt at Effective Altruism Global 2016

Event

Tod Machover: "Hypercellos to Guitar Hero to Robotic Opera and Beyond"

LocationIRCAM, Centre Pompidou, Paris DescriptionThis presentation will trace the development of music research work over the past 20 years…

Tuesday
June 28, 2011
Article

I'm Kevin Esvelt, head of the Sculpting Evolution group at the MIT Media Lab and an inventor of CRISPR gene drive - AMA!

I'm a strong advocate of more open science, and my group tries to carefully consider our moral obligations and publicly admit mistakes.

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Tod Machover: IAMM keynote talk links

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

Article

Strategies for Responsible Gene Editing: Op-Ed by Kevin Esvelt

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Follow along with the score for Tod Machover's GAMMIFIED

GAMMIFIED was Professor Machover's first attempt to create a musical work based around therapeutic Gamma frequencies.

Event

Tod Machover: "Robots and Opera:'Death and the Powers' and the Intersection of Art and Science"

LocationNorthwestern University, McCormick School of Engineering Description

Wednesday — Thursday
March 2, 2011 —
March 3, 2011