TED Talks: Free the music that goes through our heads

Tod Machover of MIT’s Media Lab invented the music technology behind the game Guitar Hero, and at TED2008 talks about what comes next. “Listen” some new interfaces for music - to play, compose, listen, enjoy.

Machover introduces Dan Ellsey, a composer with cerebral palsy who uses MIT’s Media Lab tools to write and play his own songs. Ellsey drives his "My Eagle Song," in a performance that... you need to see.

Curiosity: Guitar Hero has become a mass entertainment phenomenon. Guitar Hero III alone represented about $300 million in sales in 2007 (practically the same as the most profitable film of the year: Spider-Man 3).