Interesting article. The study on this topic can be basically found in a community called NIME. https://www.nime.org/
One of the most popular concepts there is `embodied music cognition`.
How can we define music and musical instruments?
In many cases, we tend to pre-assume the music we discuss is just the combination of melody, rhythm and timbre, but how about sound-based music?
The author tends to have a negative attitude towards digital instruments, but I can share that I feel amazing when I created this piece together with the instruments:
https://github.com/chaosprint/Packing
My performance video can be found here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYu55YZJH_s&t=102s&ab_channe...
Now I am fully engaged on live coding:
The main takeaway is that these digital music making tools offer a unique embodied experience while I feel tired of physical instruments.