Hmm, this gets a little into successors to MIDI and what's happening today with kyma, MfL, NI rounds and controllers that let you vary many parameters over the life of a note or chord. The harmonica is pretty interesting (based on watching about 5 minutes at the end

That video doesn't work for me, it has audio at first, and then it keeps playing a clip that is apparently the end of the talk but various slides appear which are in the middle of the talk. (Linux Firefox 39) very odd.