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On Thursday 23 August 2007 03:05:33 david wrote:

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> Ken Restivo wrote:

> > I continue to be amazed by the lengths that we-all electronic

> > musicians go thorugh, in terms of painstaking sequencing and editing,

> > or long hours of programming and algorithm tweaking, in order to

> > approximate the things that a well-rehearsed band does when

> > performing in real time.

>

> That's because digital control interfaces aren't as rich as analog

> control interfaces. Compare the expressiveness of a good violinist

> playing a real violin vs a synthesized violin played through a MIDI

> keyboard.

  Possibly the price of exploring new spaces? It seems to me a different

interface is needed. A input dynamic device sensitive to the needs of the

application. Those who are aware of what a "Wacom" is to the digital graphics

arts. The Wacom wand is sensitive to location, pressure, tilt and the driver

also incorporates essential mouse functions, Thus the artist is cut free of

the limitations of the mouse, and of course providing the application being

interfaced to is Wacom smart. My thought is the digital glove which

quantitizes the human hand and the applied pressures, It appears that the

devices are out of the lab.   http://www.geocities.com/mellott124/glove1.htm

With the Open Source techno {knows} it could be reality, soon.

Tom