Thank you for voting Little Daddy's IErag :307 E11117 121J@ETAT RA 'EP 20dC4 T_0 -\\_ OPP (RUNNER-UP) SOUTHFIELD LOCATION Suzanne Chessler I Contributing Writer FAMILY RESTAURANT 9AM-8PM! Southfield-Northwestern Hwy At Inkster 248-358-1700 (Only Location open Christmas Day) Bloomfield Hills-Woodward at Long Lake 248-647-3400 Taylor - Eureka Rd. At Southland Mall 734-287-8600 Livonia- 19333 Victor Parkway 734-744-5555 (just E of 1-275 Just North of 7 Mile) www.lit•ledaddys.com SIDECIAl RENT! ()NE NIGH CNIY! Celebrate New Year's Eve with Patty, Maxine & Laverne at JET An Evening with the Andrews Sisters Starring Company 13 Two performances: 6 p.m. & 9 p.m. (Season subscriptions do not include this show.) You may see the 6 p.m. show and stay for a gala dinner or dine first and enjoy the 9 p.m. production. Then...enjoy an afterglow with dancing, dessert and a champagne toast at midnight. Ticket for either the 6 p.m. or 9p.m. show: $60 • Ticket for the 7:30 pm dinner: $50 Ticket for the 10:30 pm afterglow party: $20 Dinner, show & afterglow package: $125 For more information visit our website at www.JetTheatre.org o se TICKEM; 248.788.2900 www.JetTheatre.org JET performs in the Aaron DeRoy Theatre 6600 West Maple Road • West Bloomfield 46 December 18 • 2014 m Sympnony in n Metro Detroiters will help compose new work for DSO. Come to Our Beautifully Remodeled OPEN CHRISTMAS DAY arts & entertainment nyone who has wondered how it would feel to be a serious and listened-to composer can stop wondering. That goes even for people without musical training. Tod Machover, known for bringing technology to musical scores played internationally, will be putting together a unique symphony, and he is looking for imaginative contributors to be part of the composing team. The piece, including traditional instru- mental music, will feature environmental sounds associated with Detroit as captured by Metro Detroiters. Symphony in D will be the title of the piece that could include car sounds, con- struction sounds, urban gardening sounds and hit Motown sounds among countless others. Machover will listen to sound submis- sions and review conceptual contributions made over the Internet, consult with oth- ers and come up with the final work to be performed Nov. 16, 2015, by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Leonard Slatkin. "The idea of inviting a community to come together in thinking about their environment and the people who share it — and doing that through listening and music — is a good connecting mecha- nism:' says Machover, who has worked on similar projects in Toronto; Edinburgh; Perth, Australia; and Lucerne, Switzerland. "I like combining electronics with the orchestra, and with this project, we com- bine what we usually think of as music (melodies, harmonies and rhythms played by instruments) with the beauty, diversity and power of the sounds around us. "Since I've been doing these kinds of projects, a different world has opened up for me:' As the piece evolves, there will be work- shops and discussions throughout the city and back-and-forth musical sharing and shaping. Meetings will be held with Metro Detroiters and community organizations to engage wide participation with the help of Machover's technology. Machover, composer and professor of music and media at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab, has introduced his innovations through earlier DSO programming. "Detroit is one of the world's most A Tod Machover interesting cities right now:' says Machover, whose grandparents, Rose and John Machover, once lived in Flint. "It has faced all of the challenges of being industrial and is in a position to reinvent itself. So many people are think- ing about the city, and I'm excited to be involved with this important dialogue:' Once Machover has received the submissions, he might rework some in the studio. Other submissions might be adapted by the orchestra instead of being brought into the piece through the actual recording. Machover has developed technology that can collect and combine sounds and translate them into music. The Constellation app, used in previous versions of the City-Symphony series, is Web-based and allows anyone to hear the latest sounds collected and combine them into personalized mixes. Another mobile app is being designed especially for Symphony in D to allow any recorded sound to be geographically identified by mobile devices to create a sound map of the area. It will be available through the Apple App Store and Google Play early next year. "I'm inviting people to listen to the city, send recordings that they make and suggest sounds they'd like us to record if they think it's something interesting and can't make recordings themselves:' says Machover, whose lab developed the video- game Guitar Hero for untrained individu- als who want to play music. "I grew up with Motown music and have been listening to a lot of it again. I'm sure there will be Motown elements in the piece, but Detroit also is where techno was born. You couldn't think about the city and ignore the musical cultures, including jaze With Jewish culture important in his life, Machover sees a connection to music. "I love Judaism because it's a path to the most a human being can be — in treat- ing others and living right now," he says. "Music is the perfect metaphor for all of those things combined:' ❑ For more information on the proj- ect and ways to submit sounds and ideas for Symphony in D, go to dso.org/SymphonylnD.