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… — Tod Machover Copy Share
Music seems to stimulate more parts of our mind than almost every other activity. It combines more parts of our minds. It synchronizes our… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
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… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
You have to train your mind and your ears, but they're more like athletic skills. So, part of music you just have to learn… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
I went to the University of California, Santa Cruz for a year, which turned out to be a really vibrant, very intensive intellectual atmosphere… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
The basic idea of a hyper instrument is where the technology is built right into the instrument so that the instrument knows how it's… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
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… — Tod Machover Copy Share
I never liked opera growing up. I always liked chamber music or solo music even more than orchestral music. — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
I like the idea of imagining a sound and feeling a sound and then having it come out through your body, through an instrument.… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
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… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
One of my interests in music has always been what it means, why it affects us the way it does. — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
The Beatles realized that what they were making in the studio could never be performed. And they had already given up on performing because… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
I love Bach, I love Beethoven, I love Mozart, I love the Beatles, I love you know, Stockhausen, I love many things. But for… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
