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A highly personal thought re this thread: Music involves both sides of the brain for me. The right side, intuitive, emotional, involving my body... when I get into that side of myself, music comes and visits, ideas come easily... I have recordings of things, and tunes I've written, where I have no idea afterwards what happened, how I played what I did, why I chose that chord, etc. The left side, intellectual, formal... I often use that side to clean up and organize the stuff I made from the right side. This is often the side that deals with technology. My 'heart' or 'soul' often has problems dealing with Insert modes, MIDI, milliseconds, etc., or even such basic things as intonation. Not being female, I can't address why women do what they do, or not do, but I believe both sexes have both sides of the brain, and choose how they live in each. (Of course, how they address this is what makes us the sexes we are...) When I get too emotional, I can't easily think about all these knobs and crap... and I usually end up playing acoustically! The real key to working with tools (i.e. technology) is to learn to address them from both hemispheres, or to balance myself so that I can address both of them inside myself at once. (And most therapists don't have a clue on how to approach this, either...) Think about it another way: Laurie is/was technologically far ahead of the curve. But she does not embody many of the traits that our culture regards as feminine. And she has done some gender-bending in her work as well (I am thinking first of the instances when she has harmonized her voice down to a masculine pitch...). Here lies a problem we all keep answering in one way or another -- the one of using technology to reach a place where technology does not live- a place inside us as listeners. This is the place music wants to go anyway... The most basic primordial original expression needs no EDP, that's for sure. At the other extreme, using all the technology we can can easily lead to overload, tabula-rasa-block (that sense of paralysis that comes from not being able to choose from too many possibilities), or the utterly soulless expression, which is rampant. So how do we account for it? Your mileage may vary... I welcome everyone's thoughts on this... even if you think me full of shite... Kevin Brunkhorst <A HREF="http://members.aol.com/kb305/kb305/">http://members .aol.com/kb305/kb305/</A> Red Road the band <A HREF="http://www.iuma.com/IUMA/Bands/Red_Road/">http://r edroad.iuma.com</A>