Tom Rizzuto

Music professor and TEDxMolloy University speaker. He is an adjunct assistant professor of guitar and music history at Molloy University whose public work includes talks on music history, streaming media, and the preservation value of physical media.

Physical Media Makes Art Harder to Erase

Music professor Tom Rizzuto argues in a TEDx talk that streaming has made media instantly available while weakening the public’s ability to possess and preserve it. Using Soviet “bone music” and the survival of Nosferatu as examples, he makes the case that physical copies matter not because they are nostalgic, but because they are harder for governments, courts or platforms to erase.

TEDJul 5, 20266 min read