Machover
Machover (Ted 2008) creates the picture (guitar hero), is truly expensive, truly personal, and a hundred percent creative. He shows how beautiful guitar heroes are; open to everybody, not just a passive participant but also participating in music. He calls this the future of music, which I genuinely agree; this is a collaboration of what we all call traditional music creators, performers, and listeners. Machover says that from his days of IRCAM music research center a lot has changed, to a time when anyone can access the cutting edge of technology, “a time where we don’t need to wait for transcendental music to be created for us, but a time where we just have to create what we want to hear from extracting it from within ourselves,” says Machover.
The whole concept is about revising the traditional methods; it takes a long time to study instruments and create music. Machover has overstepped this method by his idea of making a new kind of device that uses gestures one is familiar with and flows naturally with, and to think of the fact that the instruments let you have fun with music as you create it is a beautiful experience. He began his work with what he calls “hyper instruments” at MIT (1986), the most famous hyper cello. He admits that his approach to an instrument is not for everyone; he hopes that his hyperinstruments will become more embraced by soloists. Machover has worked with the Royal Academy of music in tandem to bring the devices into their school curriculum. In a traditional setup, music is for the professionals or the talented with the capability to create universally accepted music quality. In contrast, the others stand as passive musicians, but Machovers target makes his project unique as his target is the long term residents at the hospital and generally people who have zero experience in music. By looking at his idea, health-wise, the instrument changes a person to a whole new person as people express their feelings through music, letting out the music in their head.
To make his work successful, this will call for everyone’s effort to embrace it, to accept the process. But just like any other project on trial, it will face a lot of critics and rejection. Humans are prone to be afraid of what they are not aware of and, just by nature, try to push it away. Thought of the musicians in the practice of the music instruments creator how they would handle this competition? Of course, nobody is a fun of this game or the thought of being taken out of the market by just one competitor, and this is the greatest obstacle to Machovers project after successfully convincing parents and teachers why his instruments are suitable to help the children create and feel the music and not the traditional way that teaches skills and universally accepted music.