However, these models focus ultimately on mastering performance technique. None have the making of original music as their primary focus. A few alternate models for musical composition hover from time to time around the edges of the marketplace but fade because their paradigms are unfamiliar or misunderstood. In particular I would like to cite the work of Morton Subotnick, Joel Chadabe and David Zicarelli as champions of new paradigms. In M , Zicarelli and Chadabe define a world where musical process supersedes the laborious placement of individual musical events.
Musical material is subjected to many methods of transformation.
On its own, each method is simple and intuitive. In combination, these methods produce wonderfully complex music. M Zicarelli's earlier program, OvalTune , allows the composer to paint music with the mouse. Sounds and visual images are created simultaneously with physical gesture. OvalTune Subotnick's Making Music is a foray into the realm of early music education.