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>
> This is really an interesting discussion, and it reminds me of some
> of the comments Kyle Gann made. He was saying that people were
> complaining about some of the sounds of his synthesized music because
> he used too many sounds "out of the box."
>
> He was hoping that people would overlook some of the sonic
> inadequacies in favor of tuning and structural interest.
>

Any time you say 'this music is better than it sounds' you've
got a problem on your hands. (Not jumping on Mr Gann here. And
it doesn't matter the problem is wheezy GM renderrings, or
overly technical program notes regarding the tuning or composition
techniques. The amount of help required by an audience to make
a piece of music 'speak'

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Bob Valentine