{"id":13362,"date":"2011-01-10T09:09:44","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T14:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=13362"},"modified":"2011-01-10T09:11:55","modified_gmt":"2011-01-10T14:11:55","slug":"a-technology-maestro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2011\/01\/10\/a-technology-maestro\/","title":{"rendered":"A technology maestro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/prospero\/2010\/12\/future_music\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>A technology maestro<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from The Economist<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">A COMPOSER, inventor and educator, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.todmachover.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tod Machover<\/a> wears many hats. The son of both a pianist and a computer-graphics  pioneer, his own career melds these two fields in a mix of music and  technology.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todmachover.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13366\" title=\"TodMachover\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/TodMachover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"515\" height=\"353\" border=\"0\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/TodMachover.jpg 515w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/TodMachover-150x102.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 515px) 100vw, 515px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nThis led him to modify his own cello at 14, using  headphones and an amplifier. A few years later, while studying  composition at New York\u2019s Julliard School in his early 20s, he learnt  computer programming. &#8220;I definitely caught the computational bug,&#8221; he  says. In 1978 Pierre Boulez, a French composer, invited him to work at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ircam.fr\/?L=1\" target=\"_blank\">IRCAM<\/a>, a music research institute in Paris. Seven years later, Mr Machover joined the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.media.mit.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">MIT Media Lab<\/a>, where he still teaches. He also leads the affiliated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.media.mit.edu\/research\/groups\/opera-future\" target=\"_blank\">Opera of the Future<\/a>,  a research group that explores ways &#8220;to help advance the future of  musical composition, performance, learning, and expression&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>So what&#8217;s next? After spending much of his career looking for ways to  make music an active experience for all, Mr Machover predicts the future  of the field is in personalisation. &#8220;I think more and more we will be  developing music that can be customised for a particular person at a  particular time,&#8221; he says, &#8220;almost like a prescription.&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A technology maestro &#8212; from The Economist A COMPOSER, inventor and educator, Tod Machover wears many hats. The son of both a pianist and a computer-graphics pioneer, his own career melds these two fields in a mix of music and technology. &#8230; This led him to modify his own cello at 14, using headphones and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,180,256],"tags":[568,587,661,700],"class_list":["post-13362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-future","category-innovation","category-music","tag-568","tag-future","tag-innovation","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13362"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13368,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13362\/revisions\/13368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}