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Originally Posted by vishcompany
Maybe there will be new concepts of creating sounds (eg. the beforementioned Teremin), but creating the sound reqired today on today's instruments, we will have to stick to the good old blood, sweat and tears of the days of yore.
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We seem to be talking two different things.
Just because I postulate that advanced user interface technologies *can* be used to control music-production systems does not mean those interfaces need to be grafted onto today's music-production systems nor that those avanced systems need to displace today's instruments to be viable. Technology is not a zero sum game where something has to be elliminated before something else can be used. Technology development is about adding to the human experience, not replacing.
Bear in mind that sound generation does no require any musical instrument of any kind and that current technology allows for the generation of any arbitrary sound wave solely through electronic means with zero tactile feedback. We've long (60+ years, commercially) moved past the limitations of physical systems and can use mathematics and electronics to directly generate and/or modify waveforms. Whether we do so or not is just a personal choice.
Musical instruments were "obsoleted" ages ago; today we use them because we choose to, not because we have to. If Kinect-tech leads to new ways to control sound, new ways for artists to express themselves it will only be used if the artists choose to use them; nobody will be forced to do so. Conversely, just because *some* choose not to use them does not mean *nobody* will.
That much, at least, 10 million Kinect sales have proven: There's room for everybody's preferences.