When it comes to putting emotion into music, I think it is a lot easier to do so with an expressive, physically embodied musical instrument. This is exactly my

When it comes to putting emotion into music, I think it is a lot easier to do so with an expressive, physically embodied musical instrument. This is exactly my experience. I started with mouse/keyboard only fiddling with electronic music (no music background whatsoever) and the day I bought a basic MIDI controller I ended up playing it until it was time to go to work the next morning.. It was such an overwhelming experience, not just the keys themselves but also the buttons and the trackpad. Finally I could just do all these tiny variations which make groove on the spot, immediately, in infinite variations, instead of going back and forth dragging things with a mouse in only one dimension.