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I’m interested in the word “just” in all these comments. It plays the role of a subtle pejorative. “You’re just jamming” suggests that jamming is somehow inferior, as compared to “serious” music. “Just hit the white keys in time” suggests that it would be beneath a “serious” musician to do so...

Apparently it's not obvious. It seems obvious to you, but that's a very different statement. From the point of view of the electronic and experimental music communities, your view would make no sense. It would be equally absurd for them to claim that music made via traditional instruments is...

I also choose my notes; I just choose them in collaboration with artificial intelligence. I totally agree that my method is "different" from unaided control of pitch. It's the implication that unaided control is superior that I'm objecting to. It's a common attitude among instrumentalists for...

Claiming the last word on what constitutes improvising is a type of hubris. In my experience this attitude does not result in a productive discussion. The dismissal of cognitive load as a factor in musical performance suggests unfamiliarity with the rapidly evolving field of alternative...

You’re assuming that the traditional concept of musical virtuosity--direct physical control over pitch--is the only “serious” way to create improvisational music. In other words, any music not created using the traditional approach isn’t “serious” and can be disregarded. This notion is outdated...

prod about to your heart's content! Glad to hear it! This is a paragraph from a recent paper (NIME 2015) that explains the app pretty well: "We sought to simplify the process of improvising to non-modal chord progressions. This led us to develop a software MIDI remapper called ChordEase that...

Hello, I'm the developer of a new MIDI performance software that makes it easier to improvise to (non-modal) chord progressions. Basically it lets you play over jazz changes (for example) by remapping the white keys to the appropriate scales in real time, though there's much more to it than...