What makes Tanaka and Knapp’s paper highly significant to our present community is, to my view, the way in which the contributions are framed. The article does not focus on technical insights on the use of biosignals or gyroscope data; rather, it contends the capacity of the proposed multimodal approach to create room for intuition, bodily skill, control and lack thereof, in musical gestural interaction. This is an approach to NIME performance that balances technical insight with bodily performance, algorithms with intuition. In the past years this kind of approach has increasingly lost currency in favour of primarily technical research into the affordances of new instruments. What we can abstract thus from Tanaka and Knapp’s contribution is the importance of integrating technical findings and insights on bodily performance into our research methods.

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