Machover to discuss music ‘From Robotic Operas to City Symphonies and Beyond’
How can music, enabled by new technological tools and scientific concepts, increase awareness of self and connection with others, promote lifelong health and well-being, and build stronger communities and societies?
These questions will be the focus of Phi Beta Kappa visiting scholar Tod Machover’s free, public lecture “From Robotic Operas to City Symphonies and Beyond” at 3:30 p.m. April 12 in the McIntire Room at Buchanan Alumni House.
A reception with snacks and beverages will precede the lecture at 3 p.m.
Machover is the Muriel R. Cooper Professor of Music and Media at the MIT Media Lab. He has been called a “musical visionary” by The New York Times and “America’s most wired composer” by the Los Angeles Times. His compositions have been commissioned and performed by many of the world’s most prestigious ensembles and soloists. He has been awarded numerous prizes and honors, including Musical America’s 2016 Composer of the Year.
The lecture is a look at the future of music, viewed from Machover’s career in research, production and performance. Audio and video of his research initiatives and worldwide performances over the past 30 years will be played, including his collaborative “Philadelphia Voices,” the “robotic” “Death and the Powers,” as well as his latest, “Schoenberg in Hollywood.”
The Phi Beta Kappa Society’s Visiting Scholar Program provides undergraduates with the opportunity to meet some of America’s most distinguished scholars. The program contributes to the intellectual life of UMaine through an exchange of ideas between visiting scholars and resident faculty and students.
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the Phi Beta Kappa Delta Chapter of Maine are co-sponsors of Machover’s visit and lecture.
For more information, email Jessica Miller at jessica.p.miller@maine.edu. To request a reasonable accommodation, contact Kelly Gilks, 581.1954; kelly.gilks@maine.edu.