You stated that we might come to be the equivalents of a Tandy64 in a
Pentium III age, with no academic training.  I have to say that even
though that is not nesessarily true, it's not a bad thing.

Sometimes, we need simplicity in our music scene.  Music is life; life
is hurt and pleasure, simple and complex, easy and hard.  Sometimes life
can feel like the Berlioz Requiem, and sometimes life feels like a J.S.
Bach Prelude and Fugue on peroid instuments.  It's the grand idea of it
all--life energy is constant entropy:  everchanging.  I feel simple and
complex are BOTH NEEDED TO FULLY REPRESENT THE LIFE THAT ART IMITATES.

But I do agree, to talk with an academic specialist has its merits.  Most
'learned' musicians are happy to speak with prospective artistians, loving
thier influent ideas to be passed into the next generation.  I work with
a music professor at my university, and his ideas have helped me grately
(while working with him on Computer-related ideas in my Comp Sci major).

In synopsis, this Tandy64 is going to let music be me....at any level.....

Martin