Re: Real instruments vs. electronic instruments

["James Winger" <jdwinger@hotmail.com>]

maybe, if there are enough parameters... but what about the listener who 
is 
not familiar with those parameters?
Again a question of balance between tradition and innovation?


I'm not sure I follow

Many listeners aren't familiar with sound as a wave, yet they hear.
Theymay not be familiar with the concept of a key, yet the hear a cadence 
come to rest.


I find that very expressive music can be made with relatively few 
parameters.  Clavier instruments are very good examples of this.  One is 
talking through mechanical or electrical proxies to the sound production 
means. Simple parameters can interact in complex and sometimes unexpected 
ways.

I think the very important (and often missed) part is to remember that the 
interface is BIDIRECTIONAL.  It's important to be aware of your 
instrument's 
reactions.  That's why, even though your piano is reacting to some pedal 
states and hammer rates (the rebound of which is controlled by the 
mechanism) -- you can HEAR when someone is playing with the weight of 
their 
arms or the muscles of their fingers (like a harsichord player on a piano).

I would venture we've all heard (or played with) mechanical players that 
weren't LISTENING to what they were doing.  They weren't communicating 
with 
their instruments.


The instrument alters the player.




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