Tod Machover Quotes

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• My message is to forget about dichotomies. The Brain Opera is an opera, even if it does not tell a story in the usual way. It is a psychological journey with voices - so I do consider it an opera.

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  Journey, Voice, Brain

  Scientific American Interview, www.scientificamerican.com.

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• Nobody talks about music as having intrinsic meaning, how it engages the mind.

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  Mind

  Scientific American Interview, www.scientificamerican.com.

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• Works of art should be stimulating. They should wake people up rather than acting like a sedative.

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  Art, People, Acting

  Scientific American Interview, www.scientificamerican.com.

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• I like the idea of imagining a sound and feeling a sound and then having it come out through your body, through an instrument. That's an important way to make music.

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  Ideas, Feelings, Important

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The basic idea of a hyper instrument is where the technology is built right into the instrument so that the instrument knows how its being played - literally what the expression is, what the meaning is, what the direction of the music is.

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  Technology, Expression, Ideas

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• My work on hyper instruments started with simple instruments, like the piano.

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  Simple, Piano, Instruments

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• Perhaps 25 to 50 years from now, I can design a piece of music, no so that it appeals to something common in millions of people, but I can design the music so that it's exactly right for you and only you at this particular moment for your particular experience, things that have happened to you over 20 years, to you're particular mental state right now.

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  Years, People, Design

  Source: bigthink.com

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• There's many reason music exists and we are beginning to no only understand that, but measure that.

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  Reason

  Source: bigthink.com

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• it's important as a composer to sit in silence and imagine these complex musical worlds in your head, but it's also a wonderful experience to touch your music and to hear it and hear it in the room with you and to say, you can't have an entire orchestra there, but you'd kind of like to have the orchestra there.

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  Silence, Musical, Important

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Music seems to stimulate more parts of our mind than almost every other activity. It combines more parts of our minds. It synchronizes our minds. It allows people in groups to do a non-verbal immediate activity together.

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  People, Mind, Together

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I love Bach, I love Beethoven, I love Mozart, I love the Beatles, I love you know, Stockhausen, I love many things. But for some reason I come back to Elizabethan music because it's a little bit like the Beatles.

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  Love You, Love Is, Littles

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The way I listen to music goes in waves depending on a lot of things. How busy I am, if I'm in between composition projects, if I'm starting a new project. So, the only time I listen to the radio for music is with my daughter's when I'm driving them to school, or driving them somewhere.

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  Daughter, School, Radio

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I did take composition lessons when I was in high school, so I wrote piano pieces. I wrote some chamber music. I don't think any of that was particularly interesting.

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  School, Thinking, Piano

  Source: bigthink.com

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• There's just an incredibly rich and interesting relationship between our listening to music and the way our minds engage.

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  Interesting, Listening, Mind

  Source: bigthink.com

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• When I was done with high school, I knew that music was really important to me and I knew I didn't want to be a cellist, but I wasn't really sure if I wanted to be a composer, or think about - I was just interested in the ideas behind music, I was interested in mathematics.

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  School, Thinking, Ideas

  "A Conversation with MIT Lab Inventor & Composer Tod Machover". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• I think that one of the things about music is it's supposed to be spontaneous, it's supposed to be real human beings bouncing off of each other whether its from the stage or to the audience, or jamming with friends.

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  Real, Thinking, Spontaneous

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Any Beatles song is perfect. It gets to you right away.

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  Song, Perfect

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I started thinking, my gosh, all this sophisticated software for measuring how Yo-Yo plays, and how he moves and this technique of the bow, I should be able to use similar techniques for measuring the way anybody moves, and so somebody who is not a professional or a trained musician, I should be able to make a musical environment for them.

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  Moving, Thinking, Play

  Source: bigthink.com

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• There were a lot of things happen in the mid-'80's that all of a sudden made it possible to do a lot of very quick interactive music.

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  Made, Happens, Interactive

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I think the seed was planted when I was a teenager, and it took me until I got out of Juilliard. At Juilliard I was just learning to be a composer, but I was also learning how to manipulate computers.

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  Teenager, Thinking, Juilliard

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I think from age 13, 14, 15, I thought, yes, this rich studio produced music is the future, but it can't be the future to go run away into the recording studio. How can we take that kind of complexity and richness and make it possible for people to touch it and play it live. That's what hyperinstruments are.

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  Running, Thinking, Play

  Source: bigthink.com

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• One of my interests in music has always been what it means, why it affects us the way it does.

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  Mean, Doe, Way

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The Beatles realized that what they were making in the studio could never be performed. And they had already given up on performing because there were too many screaming fans and they were playing in larger and larger venues so they couldn't even hear what they were playing, it just wasn't any fun any more.

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  Fun, Fans, Given

  "A Conversation with MIT Lab Inventor & Composer Tod Machover". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• Why does every society seem to want to make music when it often seems like kind of a frill.

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  Doe, Want, Kind

  Source: bigthink.com

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• A piano is a machine, but you've got ivory and there's weight behind the keys and you have this really - you feel the resonance in the instrument, you feel the vibration in the pedal. I mean, these a still very crude.

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  Mean, Keys, Ivory

  Source: bigthink.com

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