Hyperscore Lets Kids Compose Music by Drawing

Complete video at: fora.tv Composer and inventor Tod Machover argues that musical notation is nothing more than "a way of remembering what you did so that you can do it again." He ties that to a piece of software he created called Hyperscore, which allows children to write sophisticated music using basic lines and color. ----- Tod Machover, composer, inventor, and professor of music and media at MIT, discusses the many ways in which technology is transforming music. He describes his work in Music-making creation more accessible to all, as well as upcoming projects ranging from a robotic opera to musical instruments for Alzheimer's disease. - Aspen Institute Tod Machover is a composer and inventor, and as Professor of Music and Media at MIT Media Lab, where he also directs the hyperinstruments / Opera of the Future group. Machover has composed five operas and helped to develop many musical avant-garde technologies, including Hyper instruments, a technology that increasesmusical expression for both virtuosity (from Yo-Yo Ma to Prince) and amateur and Hyper Core for creating software that anyone challenging, original music with lines and colors possible. Machover many principles of "active participation" in the music of Guitar Hero, which grew out of his laboratory, as well as the recently launched Music, Mind & Health Initiative as an example. Among his current projects is a new work, Death and the Powers, complete with a musical chandelier ...

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