Composer, inventor, and professor at the MIT Media Lab, Tod Machover has spent much of the last three years in his Media Lab studio developing a set of computerized instruments called Music Toys (including Music Shapers and Beatbugs) that aim to engage children with music - but without the need for all those darned piano lessons. New Sounds takes a look at Machover's computer-assisted "hyper-music," and especially the Toy Symphony, which gets its New York premiere on Saturday at the World Financial Center Winter Garden by Gil Rose and the Boston Modern Orchestra Project and a cadre of young singers and players.
Program #2153 Music by Tod Machover (Wednesday, May 14, 2003)
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RECORDING |
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Tod Machover |
Private CD |
Toy Symphony [13:00] |
For info go to www.toysymphony.net |
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Hyperstring Trilogy |
Forever And Ever, Pt. 3 [4:30] |
Oxingale #2003 |
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Private CD |
Sparkler [6:30] |
See above. |
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Hyperstring Trilogy |
Begin Again Again, Pts 5-8 [7:00] |
See above. |
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