UPDATE: This production has been cancelled due to recent advances with the COVID-19 Outbreak. Please see “Important Update About Ada and the Engine” for more information.

Join us Saturday, April 11 for a post-show conversation with Tod Machover.

Musical visionary Tod Machover discusses the play and how music innovation has grown since Ada first imagined machines that could create music. 

Tod Machover has been called “America’s most wired composer” by the Los Angeles Times. He is widely recognized as one of the most significant and innovative composers of his generation. He is also celebrated for inventing new technologies for music performance and creation, such as Hyperinstruments, “smart” performance systems that extend expression for virtuosi, from Yo-Yo Ma to Prince, as well as for the general public. The popular videogames Guitar Hero and Rock Band grew out of Machover’s group at the MIT Media Lab, where he has been Muriel R. Cooper Professor of Music and Media since it was founded in 1985. His Hyperscore software—which allows anyone to compose original music using lines and colors—has enabled children around the world to have their music performed by major orchestras, chamber music ensembles, and rock bands. Machover is also deeply involved in developing musical technologies and concepts for medical and wellbeing contexts, helping to diagnose conditions, such as Alzheimer’s disease, or allowing people with cerebral palsy to communicate through music.  At the MIT Media Lab, Machover is also Academic Head as well as Director of the Opera of the Future Group. In addition, he is Visiting Professor of Composition at the Royal Academy of Music (London) and the Curtis Institute of Music (Philadelphia). At Central Square Theater, he composed the music for Remembering H.M., an original play by Wesley Savick about Henry Molaison, who lived for 60 years with virtually no short term memory.