Discipline: Music Composition

Tod Machover

Discipline: Music Composition
Region: Boston, MA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1976
More: web.media.mit.edu/~tod
Tod Machover is an American composer, inventor, and educator. He 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 director of the Lab's Hyperinstruments and Opera of the Future Groups. Since 2006, Machover has also been visiting professor of composition at the Royal Academy of Music in London.

Studios

New Jersey

Tod Machover worked in the New Jersey studio.

The yellow clapboard New Jersey Studio, located on a grassy, sloping site, was funded by the New Jersey Federation of Women’s Clubs and built as an exact replica of Monday Music Studio (1913). The studio’s porch rests on fieldstone piers that increase in height as the ground slopes to the west. Like Monday Music Studio, New Jersey…

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