Hyperinstruments - 
Tod Machover Citation List

Thompson, John. (1994, Sept.) Data bass: empowering the amateur musician. 
Omni. v16(n12). p20(1).
Tod Machover and his colleagues at MIT's Media Lab have invented
Drum-Boy, a percussion system consisting of a keyboard, a drum
synthesizer, and a Macintosh II computer. The system allows access
 to a wide range of percussive sounds played through the keyboard.
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Levenson, Thomas. (1994, July-August). Taming the hypercello.
Sciences. v34(n4). p15(3).
 Yo Yo Ma performed Tod Machover's Begin Again Again on the
 hypercello at Amsterdam's Concertgebouw. The hypercello is an
 electronic music system created by integrating traditional musical
 instruments with arrays of sensors and devices. Tod Machover and his
 team at the MIT Media Lab have built these hyperinstruments. Despite
 a number of technical problems even hours before the concert, the
 team was able to repair things to ensure a successful concert.
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Goldberg, Joe. (1993, Sept.).  Quartet for the end of time: apocalyptic music as the millennium approaches. Billboard. v105(n38). p42(2).
The success of Gorecki Symphony No. 3 is attributed to the
collective fear of the people about the increasingly danger of
existing in earth and the uncertainty of the coming millennium. The
music is tonal and melodic, cast in a religious mood. These
conditions also explain the continuing trend towards minimalism in
the contemporary classical music as reflected in the works of modern
composers such as John Tavener, Tod Machover, Philip Glass and Steve
Martland.
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Hayashi, Alden. (1992, Oct. ). A little byte music. (use of hyperinstruments) (MIT Reporter). Technology Review.  v95(n7). p10(2).
Musician Tod Machover invented hyperinstruments to suit his
compositions which require unsynchronized tempos. The
hyperinstruments are actually electronic extensions of traditional
instruments such as the guitar and the violin.

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Malitz, Nancy. (August, 1992). Hyper reality. (composer Tod Machover) (Cover Story). Opera News. v57(n2). p28(3).
Tod Machover integrates high technology and traditional Western art
music as director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's
Media Lab. Machover is currently working on two operas: a virtual
reality installation piece, and a more traditional opera on social
themes for the Houston Grand Opera.
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Corcoran, Elizabeth.
Sound bytes: electronic music gains a human touch.
Scientific American.  July, 1991. v265(n1). p111(2).
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Wakeling, Dennis. W.
Machover: VALIS. Opera Quarterly.  Summer, 1990. v7(n2). p195(5).
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Porter, Andrew.
Machover: Valis. New-Yorker.  July 31, 1989. v65(n24). p67(2).

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