MIT Media Lab musician/inventor Tod Machover talks about the neuroscience of the musical experience, and using technology to close the loop between brain activity and what we're hearing in real time. In the near future, he says, you can imagine having the ability to "design a piece of music… that is exactly right for you, and only you at this particular moment." Tod Machover at Big Think
Hypermusician Tod Machover on music and the mind
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