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I had grown up and gone to high school in New York, so I wanted to get out of the east coast.
Tod Machover
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Tod Machover
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: November 24
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I've done a lot of operas. I've probably done more different kind of operas than anybody.
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The barn where I work, it's only 15 minutes or so from Harvard square, so It's very close to the center of Boston, but it happens to be a total oasis. It's completely quiet in there.
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I have a big barn that I converted to my music studio, so I go there early in the morning and the first thing I do is rowing. And that's when I listen to a lot of music.
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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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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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My work on hyper instruments started with simple instruments, like the piano.
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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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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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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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The one obvious thing is that the devices are so good now that you can also see their limitations extremely well.
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I love the cello, I love the physical sense of an instrument that's about the size of your body that vibrates enough that even if you play an open string, you feel it.
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I think in many ways, the texture of technology actually diminishes human beings. It doesn't augment them.
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Nobody talks about music as having intrinsic meaning, how it engages the mind.
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The English learned, in my view, how to use harmony much earlier than the French or the Italians, or the Germans.
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Any Beatles song is perfect. It gets to you right away.
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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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All the music we know that's popular is actually commonly shared music that takes things that are similar about all of us.
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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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I'd studied piano first and switched over to cello when I was about seven. I played mostly chamber and solo classical music. I got really involved with rock music when I was a teenager. I wired up my cello.
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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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