When I first attended the class, to be honest, I was quite lost.  Musically, my background probably extends back to the days singing along with the Saturday morning cartoons.  I did not even know the concept of music expression existed in such richness and deepness.  That is part of the reason that drove the curiosity for this experiment.  I wanted to see firsthand how these expression concepts extended itself to a casual listener like me.  I was particularly drawn to the KTH system as it seem very well developed and most friendly in terms of allowing us to explore and play with the concepts.  Initially, I wanted to use it to create my own expression from a predetermined piece, but soon realized that was easier said than done, and could possibly create erroneous results should I not utilize the program properly.  That was when I did some digging and found some of Bresin’s work where he actually used KTH rules to create emotion based musical expression.
	On a sort of side note, it is interesting to look at preferences and emotions elicited from these adjustments because of my speaker design background.  Dr. Toole of Harman research had a groundbreaking paper in the mid 80s that suggested preferences in speakers were not personal based like food or wine… but rather it was based on the speaker that produced the flattest response.  As in what you put in is what you get it.  So its interesting to see if such a concept can be extended to music expression.

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