“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
City Symphonies: Symphonies without Orchestras
2012–2018
Watch at YouTube
Breathing Together
2022
Watch an Excerpt
Schoenberg in Hollywood
2018
Watch the Trailer
Introducing A Toronto Symphony at ideacity
2012
Watch at ideacity
TEDx New England: Mozart and Me: A Radical New Model of Interskill Collaboration
2011
Watch at YouTube
MIT FAST: Festival of Art, Science, and Technology
2011
Watch at MIT TechTV
Style Boston: Plugged In
WCVB-TV
2011
Watch at Vimeo
Inventing the Opera of the Future
The Economist
2010
Watch at The Economist
Flora
1989
Watch at YouTube
Miranda’s Aria
from Death and the Powers
2010
Watch at YouTube
Music for the Masses
Smithsonian Magazine
2010
Watch at smithsonian.com
Full Interview with Tod Machover
Big Think
2010
Watch at bigthink.com
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
High bandwidth
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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