A video from TED showing new ways to think about, and experience music.

Tod Machover of MIT’s Media Lab invented the musical technology behind Guitar Hero, and at TED2008 he talks about what’s coming next. Listen for some brand-new ways to interface with music — to play it, compose it, enjoy it. Machover then introduces Dan Ellsey, a composer with cerebral palsy who uses the lab’s tools to write and perform his own music. Ellsey conducts his “My Eagle Song,” in a soaring performance that underscores music’s power to give you chills.