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Tod Machover hosts brain operas, invents interactive hyperinstruments and is now composing a Toronto symphony with tweaks, suggestions and additions from the city's own inhabitants.
Machover, who spoke about the venture at Wired 2012, started out as a cellist pushing the boundaries of performance and challenging traditional concepts of the performer, before finding the ideal environment for those experimentations at MIT's Media Lab. His Toronto symphony will be the piece in which he draws upon all the technologies and techniques he has learnt along the way at MIT.
"When Toronto Symphony Orchestra asked me to write a symphony, I wanted to invite the entire city to write it with me," he said. "It started off with a picture, which was me imagining a shape and picture of a symphony of Toronto. The score is visual, and the different textures show the rhythms."
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