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BBC: How street noise from Philadelphia became music

4/11/2018

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Composer Tod Machover's Philadelphia Voices contains recordings from all over the city. Philadelphia is the birthplace of American democracy and Tod Machover says he wanted to create an exploration of the ideals that are worth trying to build on.
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NPR: Composer Tod Machover Discusses How He Created 'Philadelphia Voices'

4/10/2018

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The Philadelphia Orchestra will perform the work Tuesday at Carnegie Hall. He based the composition on recorded sounds, including the sizzle of a cheesesteak.
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MIT News: Q&A: Composer Tod Machover presents “Philadelphia Voices”

4/9/2018

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By Peter Dizikes.

Philadelphia is having an entertaining 2018. The Eagles won the Super Bowl. Villanova rolled to the men’s national college basketball championship. And now, for a culture break, residents can enjoy “Philadelphia Voices,” an ambitious new symphony by acclaimed MIT composer Tod Machover. The piece, which incorporates citizen contributions and the sounds and words of everyday life, is the sixth part of the “City Symphony” series by Machover. MIT News spoke with Machover about “Philadelphia Voices.”​
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NBC10's Ted Greenberg Gets the Details on the Philadelphia Voices Project from Tod Machover

8/31/2017

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New Sounds: Listen: World Premiere of Tod Machover's 'Symphony for Lucerne'

11/17/2015

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On Sept. 9, 2015, the Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra offered the world premiere performance of Tod Machover's Symphony for Lucerne.

Over the course of a year, Machover invited people to use their smart phones to record sounds from around Lucerne. Machover himself returned to the city each month to record conversations, environmental sounds and musical performances. He then assembled the sounds at the MIT Media Lab, where he heads the Opera of the Future group, and incorporated them into his orchestral composition.

The Symphony for Lucerne is very literally meant to represent the sounds of the city, offering an aural portrait as experienced by Lucerne's residents and visitors.

​Listen to the full performance at the top of this page, and hear WQXR's Jeff Spurgeon interview Machover about the project below.
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LOFT: A Toronto Symphony, Tod Machover’s Participatory Orchestral Opera

4/10/2013

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NPR: Sounds Of Toronto's Streets Liven Symphony

3/16/2013

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Host Scott Simon talks to MIT professor of music and media Tod Machover about his work with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. He crowdsourced street sounds gathered by local Torontonians and blended them with traditional instruments to create an orchestra.
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