Audience Quote by Tod Machover

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 an instrument.…

— 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 of very…

— 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 performing because…

— Tod Machover

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