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

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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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“I listen to new music by composers who are interesting to me. I listen to some; I don't know if I want to call it pop, but it's some interesting artist that gets my attention, I listen to in the mornings.”

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“Strangely, the thing I listen to 75% of the time, when I'm exercising with my headphones on is English Tudor/Elizabethan music, so music from about 1450 to the early 1600's.”

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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 some reason I come back to Elizabethan music because it's a little bit like the Beatles.”

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“England has had a lot of really bad periods of music, but it's had several amazing periods where they've found an incredible balance, not just between music that's a rather complex and also pretty direct. Like the Beatles.”

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“Any Beatles song is perfect. It gets to you right away.”

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

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“I almost never these days sit down with a CD or my laptop and just listen to a piece with a score. I probably would do that while I'm exercising.”

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