One of the big mysteries of music is, if you take music without words, it means something to us because we know it's about something. It's about something important humanly, but since there are no words, nobody knows what it's… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
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
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
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
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
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
Perhaps 25 to 50 years from now, I can design a piece of music, no so that it appeals to something common in millions… — 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
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
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
One of my interests in music has always been what it means, why it affects us the way it does. — Tod Machover Copy Share
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
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
My message is to forget about dichotomies. The 'Brain Opera' is an opera, even if it does not tell a story in the usual… — Tod Machover Copy Share
I almost never these days sit down with a CD or my laptop and just listen to a piece with a score. I probably… — Tod Machover Copy Share
I listen to a lot of music that teenagers are listening to because I'm around them. — Tod Machover Copy Share
