Tod Machover Email & Phone Number

Tod Machover – called “America’s Most Wired Composer” by The Los Angeles Times – is widely recognized as one of the most significant and innovative composers of his generation, and is also celebrated for inventing new technology for music, including Hyperinstruments which he launched in 1986. Machover studied with Elliott Carter and Roger Sessions at The Juilliard School and was the first Director of Musical Research at Pierre Boulez’s IRCAM in Paris. He has been Professor of Music and Media at the MIT Media Lab (Cambridge, USA) since it was founded in 1985, and is currently launching a major new “Music, Mind & Health” initiative there. He is also Visiting Professor of Composition at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Machover supervised development of Hyperscore and is Co-Founder and Chairman of Harmony Line Inc. (www.hyperscore.com and www.h-lounge-com), a Boston-based company devoted to developing musical tools and techniques to extend creative music-making to everyone. Machover has been particularly noted for his operatic compositions, which include VALIS (1987), Media/Medium (1994), the audience-interactive Brain Opera (1996/8), and Resurrection (1999), based on Tolstoy’s last novel. He is currently working on two new operas: Death and the Powers, a “robotic” opera with an original libretto by U.S. poet laureate Robert Pinsky, and Skellig, based on the award-winning novel by David Almond. Tod Machover has invented many new technologies for music, most notably his Hyperinstruments that use smart computers to augment musical expression and creativity. He has designed these hyperinstruments for some of the world’s greatest musicians, from Yo-Yo Ma to Prince, as well as for the general public and for children, and increasingly in health contexts for people with mental or physical disabilities.Specialties: Music composition, interface design, tools for learning and creativity, event conception and organization, public speaking

Listed skills include Music, Composition, Musical Theatre, Music Education, and 22 others.