Tod Machover

Music seems to stimulate more parts of our mind than almost every other activity. It combines more parts of our minds. It…

— Tod Machover

I love the cello, I love the physical sense of an instrument that's about the size of your body that vibrates enough…

— Tod Machover

You have to train your mind and your ears, but they're more like athletic skills. So, part of music you just have…

— Tod Machover

I went to the University of California, Santa Cruz for a year, which turned out to be a really vibrant, very intensive…

— Tod Machover

The basic idea of a hyper instrument is where the technology is built right into the instrument so that the instrument knows…

— Tod Machover

Perhaps 25 to 50 years from now, I can design a piece of music, no so that it appeals to something common…

— Tod Machover

I never liked opera growing up. I always liked chamber music or solo music even more than orchestral music.

— Tod Machover

I like the idea of imagining a sound and feeling a sound and then having it come out through your body, through…

— Tod Machover

There were a lot of things happen in the mid-'80's that all of a sudden made it possible to do a lot…

— Tod Machover

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

— Tod Machover

The Beatles realized that what they were making in the studio could never be performed. And they had already given up on…

— Tod Machover

I love Bach, I love Beethoven, I love Mozart, I love the Beatles, I love you know, Stockhausen, I love many things.…

— Tod Machover

My message is to forget about dichotomies. The 'Brain Opera' is an opera, even if it does not tell a story in…

— Tod Machover

I almost never these days sit down with a CD or my laptop and just listen to a piece with a score.…

— Tod Machover

I listen to a lot of music that teenagers are listening to because I'm around them.

— Tod Machover

I listen to new music by composers who are interesting to me. I listen to some; I don't know if I want…

— Tod Machover

A piano is a machine, but you've got ivory and there's weight behind the keys and you have this really - you…

— Tod Machover

One of the things I like most of all is being in my study, in my barn, with absolutely no sound anywhere…

— Tod Machover

I think that one of the things about music is it's supposed to be spontaneous, it's supposed to be real human beings…

— Tod Machover

I started realizing that one of the great things about opera is that if you make the right kind of story, you…

— Tod Machover

The one obvious thing is that the devices are so good now that you can also see their limitations extremely well.

— Tod Machover

All the music we know that's popular is actually commonly shared music that takes things that are similar about all of us.

— Tod Machover

I think from age 13, 14, 15, I thought, yes, this rich studio produced music is the future, but it can't be…

— Tod Machover

The barn where I work, it's only 15 minutes or so from Harvard square, so It's very close to the center of…

— Tod Machover

England has had a lot of really bad periods of music, but it's had several amazing periods where they've found an incredible…

— Tod Machover