How can one entrust performance to a program, if only the composer knows, the way his piece is to be performed?
A 20: Why not, if the program does it well? And why not allow the program to make a normally mechanical, “soulless” MIDI-file to sound more naturally? By the way a composer sometimes does not know exactly, how his or her piece will really sound when performed by an orchesra, nor can he always perform it himself. Very often the composer “authorizes” the performer to interpret the piece, thus lifting responsibility from his own shoulders and putting it on the performers. And sometimes the performer really makes the composed music, originally rather flat and uninteresting, to sound more impressive and more convincing than it was planned (or ever imagined) by the composer. Unfortunately, the traditional pattern “composer-MIDI score-synth” lacks the factor of the creative interpretation, so characteristic of live music. PM technology simply helps to correct this drawback.
