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“I'd studied piano first and switched over to cello when I was about seven. I played mostly chamber and solo classical music. I got really involved with rock music when I was a teenager. I wired up my cello.”

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Tod Machover is a renowned composer known for his innovative work in electronic music and multimedia art. Born on November 24, 1953, he is a co-founder of the Boston Symphony Orchestra's Electronic Music Lab and a professor at the MIT Media Lab. Machover's compositions blend classical music, electronic music, and popular music, exploring the intersection of human emotion and technology through his creative work and performances. more

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“When I was done with high school, I knew that music was really important to me and I knew I didn't want to be a cellist, but I wasn't really sure if I wanted to be a composer, or think about - I was just interested in the ideas behind music, I was interested in mathematics.”

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“I had grown up and gone to high school in New York, so I wanted to get out of the east coast.”

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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 where you could do a lot of aspect of music without it being a conservatory. And that's why I went there.”

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“After a year, I thought gee I don't really need college anymore, which wasn't correct, but that's what I thought.”

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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 those things or you can't practice the art.”

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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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“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 about.”

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“There's just an incredibly rich and interesting relationship between our listening to music and the way our minds engage.”

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“I think part of the bad thing is that skill is emphasized so much that a lot of people, by the time they get to Juilliard, well I think they kind of forget why they got into music in the first place and if they're performers - this is a simplification, but a lot of them are trying to win a competition and play more accurately, or better, or more beautifully, whatever can be measured, than somebody else.”

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“I did take composition lessons when I was in high school, so I wrote piano pieces. I wrote some chamber music. I don't think any of that was particularly interesting.”

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