I work to create an interactive environment that articulates sonic design and compositional structures in some sort of interactive relationship with live performers. As a result, says Lippe, their task was complicated, enormously time-consuming, expensive and very, very difficult. There were, in fact, very few composers working in the field. More useful systems were developed later, but in small numbers. The change is amazing.
Music composition is available to the masses.
It's produced a lot of new work, one subset of which is the 'anti-performance' composition that denies the somatic side of music. There's no movement, no expression, one performer-not very interesting to me.