I want to comment on the question that Ge is always asked; can computer instruments replace real instruments?
It's a very curious question, especially for musicians. I've never looked at music from the outside, and after reading Ge's response to that question I've developed a new perspective towards the music industry. The two points that Ge made were very exciting for me and also kind of relieving. It was nice to hear someone telling me that I can take music less seriously and just enjoy it as it is. That's something musicians no longer hear these days. It's always this constant pressure of either persuing music as a profession or quitting it as a hobby because we should be busy with our actual profession. On page 91 of chapter 2, I was fascinated when I found out the meaning of the word "Amateur" (one who loves). It's funny to see that what was once a compliment is now degrading. If you tell any musicians or someone who's just casually playing the guitar that they are amateurs, they'd be immediately offended. I would be offended too. The mentality of the music industry has shaped us into competing for numbers of streams rather than numbers of connections made through that one song.
The second point mentioned by Ge is that computer music instruments and conventional instrument sound very different. The first is not emulating the later. On the quite opposite, they're completing each other. Ge's point is that back in the day when technology consisted of physical tools and material, it only made sense to use such resources to built an instrument. Now that computers are our tools and material, we use that to build new instruments. Because, who said we should be content with the instruments we have right now? Instruments kept being introduced to the music industry from the Baroque era to the classical and romantic. Even modern compositions have either bigger numbers of instruments or new instruments such as guitars and Eastern instruments. So why hate anything computer related? Why be threatened by it? Modern popular and mainstream music rarely ever produce a song without electronic sounds. That's just MIDI generated sounds. That's just oscillators and VSTs connected to a MIDI keyboard. What if there's a whole new instrument introduced that you can play using the computer itself? Is that what would scare humanity? I sure hope so.
On the other hand, the Assassin's Creed video gave me a new perspective on the kind of art I should be making regarding the message or reaction I wish to convey to my audience. I'm a very tense person, thus, I feel like this gameplay or even Ge's response gave me some sort of peace that says "it's alright my child, life is much more simple and complex that you think. Don't try to understand it. Try to feel it".