I spent a good deal of my youth battling with my guitar teacher who was constantly trying to turn me into a biological sound generator... Limiting my creativity to the exacty fashion with which I execute his instructions on how to play a Concerto Andante Furioso Con Parmigiano some dead guy wrote 10'000 years ago. (I'm sure he didn't even announce his own death). So I am now scheming a devious plan on how to a) Get back at him, and b) Demonstrate the programmability of humans to anyone who has eyes and mind to see it So my proposition: Take any instrument that is convertible to MIDI, like a keyboard, or preferably, MIDI-plug an old, whacked up rock guitar that was used by Alice Cooper to scratch his hairy buttocks. So then you get about 100 high-brow studied classical orchestra musicians (the more narrow-minded the better), hand out wireless terminals with an OSC-hacked version of Lilypond that display sheet music from MIDI signals. Have their musical teachers tell them this is one of the most avant-garde ways to peform and that it is their ticket to fame and fortune in the classical music community (believe me, these classical types will believe absolutely ANYTHING their musical authorities tell them). Then plug your flea bag MIDI scratcher and start getting your groove on. Voilà! Biological soundfont. Only downside: Latency is a bar or two. Carlo
