Ingo,<div>thanks for your explanation, I think to understand how he's playing.</div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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The movement looks to me secondary - it's more like a dance movement and not<br>
too much music control.<br>
<font color="#888888"><br></font></blockquote><div><br></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>This might be a very personal take, but if movement is secondary in gestural control, why one uses gestural control at all?</div>
<div>I believe that effective and ancillary gestures are what reinforce our perception of an instrument as a musical tool, rather than a mere "device".</div><div>Imho many gestural controllers would benefit of a better focus on this aspect.</div>
</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><font color="#888888"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">How would you play such melodic lines (like those jazz licks) - in time -<br>
simply with gestural control? </span></font></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Setting an array of preset chords, triggering them with multiple switches, deploying a timeline which holds the trigger until the onset of the next beat or quarter, etc...</div>
<div>I guess the list here could come up with many other methods.</div><div>I'm not saying that's trivial, I only think that it's not the "future" as it is presented in the video.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<font color="#888888"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">How would you improvise on scales, pattern or<br>harmonic structures? After all he's a jazz player calling his music "beat<br>jazz".<br>
</span></font></blockquote><div><br></div><div>What do you call improvisation in this case?</div><div>How much is he improvising?</div><div>I can imagine he's "improvising" with the melodic lines, but playing samples and presets chords doesn't match my own definition of improvisation.</div>
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