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The Instrument does matter...
The working environment forms the music, and the music forms the working environment.

Old musical concepts (old wine) are in conflict with new musical concepts (new wine), mechanical sound technology (old skins) stays in opposition to electronic sound technology (new skins), or get into combinations of hybrid systems.

Old Wine:  Diatonic and pentatonic scales, rhythmical organization in binary hierarchy, quint circle, quint based harmonic relations, octave division in 12 similar half tone steps, musical score organized in voices, central tone, periodic beat base, ...

New Wine:  Micro intervals, continuous pitch modulations, complex rhythmical relations, sound vectors, highly detailed dynamics, algorithmic and cybernetic models, random and other non-linear methods, ...

Old Skins:  Mechanical instruments, and other physical bodies used for the purpose of sound generation, ...

New Skins:  Electronic sound equipment, including modules of sound sampling, generation, filtering, modulation, reverberation, ...
  
Filling Old Wine in Old Skins

Classical music, Jazz, Folk, Unplugged, Choir music, ...
  
Filling Old Wine in New Skins

Bach on electronic organ, computer generated melodies for pop-songs, sampled piano, pentatonic phrase in a techno piece, computer simulations of physical sounds or music styles, ...
  
Filling New Wine in Old Skins

Computer generated string quartet (ILLIAC suite), dodecaphony and serial music, all kind of avant-garde works for single players, ensembles, orchestras, ...
  
Filling New Wine in New Skins

Experimental electronic music, sound installations, computer music, tape music, multi-media projects, ...
  
Wine blend (hybrid systems)

Unlimited field of musical inventions in Pop, Jazz, and post-modern or neo-classic contemporary music, film music, ...
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