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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. sure, melodies and rhythms are expresive and dont depend on sound, but when we talk about the expression of instruments here, its probably mosty through the sound ---- Here' I'm actually taking about the sound. I think the neat think is that even with a parametric instrument like piano, you can control sounds through rates (you basically have hammer velocity and a release event, plus some global pedal control). The time slices are of a finer scale than rhythm, the expressive velocities are of finer resolution than noted dynamics. Even though depressing a piano key is discreetly parametric (you send a hammer event at a velocity). This event affects the timbre of the string as well as simply the volume. The player then gets to decide how long to let the overtones "bloom". There are also options such as how long you let slurs interact, the slur itself may be a somewhat melodic expression, but how you let the sounds interact (relative volumes) can affect things sonically. Pipe organs are even crazier...The pipes cross-talk so that depending on what you play, the sound changes (we're not simply talking about inter-modulation in the ambient here). This cross-talk is SO STRONG that the intonation of the pipes change depending on what each pipe "hears". In the pipe organ, we have a machine with simple parametric inputs, but the sonic qualities are very dynamic _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail