Innovation, reflection, and celebration will blend at the Boston Symphony Orchestra this week, where MIT composer Tod Machover's inventive new work 'already and not yet' will see its world premiere on Thursday. Machover, one of the world's most prominent composers, has incorporated multiple ongoing interests into the new symphony, including AI tools interacting with the musicians, and a piece that is structured as a meditation on the crisis and promise of democracy. 'An orchestra is an interesting ensemble to use for thinking about how different groups of people can relate to each other,' says Machover, who is the Muriel R. Cooper Professor of Music and Media and faculty director at the MIT Media Lab, where he also serves as director of the Opera of the Future group. He adds: 'John Cage used to say one way to think of a piece of music is that it should be like the society you'd like to live in. I was always inspired by this idea, and thought of the orchestra ' and constructed this...
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