Syncopators. Does that mean you play that very fast music... jazz?

And the point, the essential nature, of musical performance is to produce excellent music.

I want to compose music on a human scale

I played him my music

I didn't realize there was going to be a little music before.

I don't play boogiewoogie and that's the music you like.

I use these scores to collaborate with musicians.

David Holt plays mountain music

Clarence I would rather be able to play an instrument again than walk.

But it's the best music making, like this.

He's also a music hall artist making a tour of Bandrika.

It's only the execution of the written music, no interpretation.

The ancient music with which your peasant ancestors... celebrated every wedding for countless generations.

People could now hear music all the time, even though it wasn't necessary for them to play an instrument, read music or even go to concerts.

The musicians played off a three dimensional graph of weather data like this.

I'm talking about turn it into the data that it was made from, which is how it was performed.

I need to play a piece of music. Oh, well, this will help your control!

( Fingal's Cave by Mendelssohn playing in concert hall)

So for example, one of the things that we learn when we are dealing with being a percussion player, as opposed to a musician, is basically straightforward single stroke rolls.

You want to hear it played by different musicians.

I've played the Disney Hall here and Carnegie Hall and places like that.

And he played his bluegrass style of music, but near the end of the concert, he played the old timing style of banjo picking that came from Africa, along with the banjo.

Do you usually have a musical accompaniment to your meals?

NM Well, we're gonna play one together now.

Band

It says right now, we think music is notes and how they're played.

They're playing your music like crazy, and I'm listening to I!

The musicians played off a three dimensional graph of weather data like this.

Tod Machover and Dan Ellsey play new music

It's a real experience, not only to learn how to play and listen to rhythms, but to train your musical memory and playing music in a group.

All those great people here, virtuosos, they make noise, they need me to do that.

If, for example, I play just a few bars of a piece of music for which I think of myself as a technician that is, someone who is basically a percussion player ...

Acoustic

He is playing music.

We crave to be in the room with the musician the day it was recorded, the day it was played.

No, the music pushed me over, which is why I call it one buttock playing.

And the experience is I want to be in the room and hear the musicians.

The excitement of a great orchestra performance comes from the attempt to have a collective of musicians producing one unified whole concept.

The whole orchestra is playing.

We grew up playing a bunch of, we played by ear and I think that's important for us because we were not really exposed to a lot of different styles of music.

Being able to treat sound as an instrument, and be able to dig for more abstract sounds and things to play live, mixing electronics and acoustics.

After being there for three quarters of an hour, he made 32 dollars.

We made a new recording of him playing in the Shrine Auditorium in September.

And so the bands at Tootsie's or at CBGB's had to play loud enough the volume had to be loud enough to overcome people falling down, shouting out and doing whatever else they were doing.

And the music there, I would say, the instruments, the intricate rhythms, the way it's played, the setting, the context, it's all perfect. It all works perfect.