Time was when the use of any electronically-generated effects in an artist's work, would immediately brand you as a member of the avant-garde. Your creations, particularly musical ones, were imagined to be overly technical and exhaustingly cerebral - somewhat akin to advanced mathematics. Eventually, however, jazz embraced the modernism of electronics as people like Rashann Roland Kirk ("Slippery, Hippery, Frippery"), John Zorn and the influence of classical composers like Varès and Boulez showe