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Tod Machover

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

Do you hear the sound of a breath, or an ocean wave? A heartbeat, or thunder? Journey through a universe of shifting sonic identities …
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VALIS: 2023 Production

Tod Machover’s first opera (he has now composed many more groundbreaking ones) was VALIS, and it made history when it premiered for the 10t…
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Schoenberg in Hollywood: A new opera by Tod Machover

“Can a man know the truth and tell it to the greatest number and still be misunderstood? Can one man be of the many and still be known?” Sc…
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Tod Machover: Operas 1987-2014

This brief excerpt video shows a glimpse of some of Tod Machover’s innovative, unusual opera realized at—and with the collaboration of—the …
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Philadelphia Voices

Philadelphia Voices is the latest in the series of City Symphonies projects that Tod Machover and the Opera of the Future group have c…
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…but not simpler…

This collection of Tod Machover’s music focuses on chamber and orchestral music composed during the last decade, both with and without elec…
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SIDR: Deep Learning-Based Real-Time Speaker Identification

Consider each of our individual voices as a flashlight to illuminate how we project ourselves in society and how much sonic space we give o…
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Fablur

Fablur explores the limit of the self in its relationship to others through the medium of clothing. The augmented gown uses a rear dome pro…
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Sound Cycles

Sound Cycles is a new interface for exploring, re-mixing, and composing with large volumes of audio content. The project presents a simple …
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Fensadense

Fensadense is a new work for 10-piece ensemble composed by Tod Machover, commissioned for the Lucerne Festival in summer 2015. The project …
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Breathing Window

Breathing Window is a tool for non-verbal dialogue that reflects on your own breathing while also offering a window on another person's res…
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Music Visualization via Musical Information Retrieval

In a study of human perception of music in relation to different representations of video graphics, this project explores the automatic syn…
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Empathy and the future of experience

Nothing is more important in today's troubled world than the process of eliminating prejudice and misunderstanding, and replacing them with…
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Disembodied Performance

Early in the opera "Death and the Powers," the main character, Simon Powers, is subsumed into a technological environment of his own creati…
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Ambisonic surround-sound audio compression

Traditional music production and studio engineering depends on dynamic range compression audio signal processors that precisely and dynamic…
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Powers Live

Death and the Powers: Global Interactive Simulcast
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Using the voice as a tool for self-reflection

Our voice is an important part of our individuality. From the voices of others, we understand a wealth of non-linguistic information, such …
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Hyperproduction: Advanced Production Systems

Hyperproduction is a conceptual framework and a software toolkit that allows producers to specify a descriptive computational model and con…
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City Symphonies: Massive musical collaboration

The City Symphony project by the Opera of the Future group brings creative musical participation to everyone while encouraging collaboratio…
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Vocal Vibrations

Expressive Performance for Body-Mind WellbeingThe Vocal Vibrations music is now available for exclusive download from Bowers & Wilkins.…
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Media Scores

Media scores provide a means to orchestrate multiple modalities in the creation of expressive works of art and performance. New technologie…
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Death and the Powers: Redefining Opera

Death and the Powers is a groundbreaking opera that brings a variety of technological, conceptual, and aesthetic innovations to the th…
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Hyperscore

Music software that lets anyone compose music. The first music software program designed to teach students and adults how to compose music …
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Hyperinstruments

The Hyperinstruments project creates expanded musical instruments and uses technology to give extra power and finesse to virtuosic performe…