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Tod Machover

musician, composer, inventor

Tod Machover has been widely recognized as one of the most important and innovative composers of his generation. [more]

Robert Pinsky: Poetry and Democracy

February 23, 2006

Robert Pinsky discusses his collaboration on an opera, Death and the Powers, with Tod Machover of the Media Lab, his ongoing Favorite Poem Project, his ideas about poetry and democratic culture, and his recent prose book, The Life of David, an account of the biblical poet-king.

Meet the Composer: Tod Machover

Tod Machover discusses his work as a musician, composer and inventor. As a designer of new technology and the inventor of Hyperinstruments, which augment musical expression using smart computers, Machover has virtually re-invented music.

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