To a degree, this has already happened in Japan. There is a thriving market of people using computers to create their own original music-there are even several magazines and large organizations that support more than 1 million people making music on computers. People trade MIDI compositions and recordings and use home-produced music to entertain friends. Critics would say that this kind of market is unique to Japanese culture, like karaoke. But one can find karaoke bars in many parts of the world.
Music is in the human heart.
And we are all the same in our hearts. Expanding interfaces and software capability is the key to getting more people involved in music and in multimedia. Roland is not unaware of the commercial possibilities of widespread artistic literacy. The company already has one product, a program called DoReMix, that helps users experience musical composition. We can imagine powerful 3-D interfaces that will allow anyone to interact directly with compositional elements.