Nobody talks about music as having intrinsic meaning, how it engages the mind.
Tod Machover
Works of art should be stimulating. They should wake people up rather than acting like a sedative.
My message is to forget about dichotomies. The 'Brain Opera' is an opera, even if it does not tell a story in the usual way. It is a psychological journey with voice - so I do consider it an opera.
The basic idea of a hyper instrument is where the technology is built right into the instrument so that the instrument knows how it's being played - literally what the expression is, what the meaning is, what the direction of the music is.
My work on hyper instruments started with simple instruments, like the piano.
