By intonation, do you mean the pitch, or the feel of the sound? [I'm assuming the latter] I've messed around with sound on the computer, and it is amazing how hard it is to make two pitches have the same texture (timbre?). I know a lot of experimental music artists (I think a lot of krautrock, specifically) claim to focus more on the texture of sounds than on the rhythm, melody, etc; I've figured electronics had a lot to do with that.

I imagine that playing a real instrument would be much more entertaining than something like live coding, just because you have to constantly create each sound.

P.S. I hope this isn't too hard to understand, and sorry for replying to your comment 20 days later.

But the article didn't just point out problems with viewing content, but sharing content. If everyone is filtering content from hundreds of people, you'll get different people responding to what you share every time, which is where the lack of a sense community comes from.