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COVER STORY
Technology
Kurt Andersen and composer and MIT Media Lab scientist Tod Machover talk about the convergence of art and digital technology.

Glitch Music
A look at electronic music taken to the extreme, using only computer-generated beeps and hums. Produced by Steve Nelson.
Go to Kid 606 website
Go to Warp Records website

Merce Cunningham
The 82-year-old modern dance master describes what happened when he began choreographing on a PC. Produced by Kerrie Hillman. Photo by Jack Mitchell.
Go to Merce's official website
Go to Merce Cunningham's Living Sketchbook

Analog Or Digital?
A writer, film editor, and graphic designer admit their ambivalent relationships to technology. Produced by Sara Fishko.
Go to Milton Glaser, Inc website
Go to New York Times page on Joyce Carol Oates
Go to Austin Chronicle article on Chip Kidd

SPECIAL GUEST
Tod Machover
Tod Machover is a composer and Professor of Music & Media at MIT's Media Laboratory. His music uses highly eclectic combinations of electronic and acoustic sound, and his compositions have been performed around the world. His future projects include a new opera, Twelve Looney Tones: Schoenberg in Hollywood and the Toy Symphony.
Go to Tod's website
Go to MIT media lab page







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Who's the new Brahms?
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Design For The Real World
This Oscar weekend, graphic designer Michael Bierut proposes a new award the Academy should give out -- a statuette for typefaces.

Sound Portrait
Typing Explosion. Three Seattle women improvise and write poems collectively, in costume, on-demand, and on-stage with props that include typewriters, horns, bells and whistles. Produced by Harriet Baskas.
E-mail Typing Explosion for show dates
Go to Seattle Post-Intelligencer article
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