My work on hyper instruments started with simple instruments, like the piano.

- 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 of people, but I can design the…

- Tod Machover

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

- 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 minds. It …

- Tod Machover

Nobody talks about music as having intrinsic meaning, how it engages the mind.

- Tod Machover

There's many reason music exists and we are beginning to no only understand that, but measure that.

- Tod Machover

The English learned, in my view, how to use harmony much earlier than the French or the Italians, or the Germans.

- Tod Machover

it's important as a composer to sit in silence and imagine these complex musical worlds in your head, but it's also a wonderful experience to touch y…

- 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 some reason I come back t…

- Tod Machover