Tod Machover

MIT concert, featuring electronic and computer-generated music, was a part of the 2025 International Computer Music Conference.

Jessica Rosenworcel, former FCC Chairwoman, joins the MIT Media Lab as Executive Director, bringing bold vision and civic-minded leadership.

Dean Hashim Sarkis announced that Professor Tod Machover has been named Faculty Director of the MIT Media Lab, effective July 1.

This year's list includes work from Media Lab students, faculty members, and alumni.

With a launch date no earlier than February 26, 2025, three MIT research payloads aboard the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will travel to the moon

Tod Machover Honored as Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters

Congratulations to Professor Machover, who leads the Opera of the Future research group at the Media Lab!

Learn more about the world premiere of Tod Machover's latest composition—FLOW Symphony—on this related event page.

Professor Machover also held a commencement seminar, titled "Sound Futures: How Music and Technology Will Shape AI, Health, and Community.”

The prestigious honor society announces more than 250 new members, which includes Tod Machover, head of Opera of the Future.

A series of images from an exhibition at the Venice Biennale 2024.

The Media Lab is honored to have had its research and researchers highlighted in two 2023 end-of-year lists prepared by MIT News.

Tod Machover was full of praise for the young singers who gave his opera Schoenberg in Hollywood its first public performance in China

Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation.

The iconic sci-fi opera VALIS, first composed by Professor Tod Machover in 1987, reboots at MIT for a new generation.

The 27 finalists will explore the technology’s impact on democracy, education, sustainability, communications, and much more.

The iconic sci-fi opera VALIS reboots for a new generation

At MIT, Tod Machover’s ‘VALIS’ receives its first staged production in over two decades

The new Center will provide music education to students across North Texas, in cooperation with the Media Lab's Opera of the Future group.

"I want to see you."

"When I fell asleep that night, I had a dream."

Media Lab professor Tod Machover performed a new musical composition, "A Little Hub Symphony," during the SA+P advanced degree ceremony.

Q+A sessions on two research projects with contributors from MIT and the Media Lab will be livestreamed from the ISS on May 26 and May 28.

GAMMIFIED was Professor Machover's first attempt to create a musical work based around therapeutic Gamma frequencies.

The Axiom Mission 2 launch will carry a variety of research from the MIT Media Lab to the International Space Station (ISS) on May 21, 2023

The HUMANS nanowafer, an MIT Space Exploration Initiative student-led project, will travel to the ISS this month, and later to the moon.

The tech-forward composer Tod Machover has made a chamber opera of Richard Powers’s novel “The Overstory,” featuring Joyce DiDonato.

Media Lab director Dava Newman and professors Tod Machover and Joseph Paradiso spoke during a tribute to Glorianna Davenport.

Machover’s Overstory Overture is a 30-minute work, for a single voice, chamber ensemble, and electronics.

We're thrilled to welcome our friends at the Museum to Kendall Square!

Supported by a $100 million founding gift, the academy will deepen the integration of design across the Institute and beyond.

Gramophone contributor Laurence Vittes spotlights Tod Machover’s “Death and the Powers,” an opera about robots and humans.

Music | Machines - Professor Tod Machover in conversation with the team from Death and the Powers.

The themes and concerns of Death and the Powers seem even more relevant and resonant than when the opera premiered a decade ago.

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Sasha Costanza-Chock presents key insights from their book Design Justice.

New adjunct associate professor combines fine arts and coding.