Acting Quote by Tod Machover

“Works of art should be stimulating. They should wake people up rather than acting like a sedative.” quote by Tod Machover — Download Open image

“Works of art should be stimulating. They should wake people up rather than acting like a sedative.”

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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…

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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…

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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…

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

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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 it's…

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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…

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

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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.…

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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…

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

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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…

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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…

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