The next challenge was a keyboard program that allows him to spell words on the screen.
Everymail, an onscreen virtual keyboard program, allows users to type characters in 34 languages, including Thai, Icelandic and Vietnamese.
And he eventually settled on an on-screen keyboard program called Clickey, which allowed him to type by selecting each character with a click or a puff.
There is also an onscreen keyboard program called My-T-Touch that lets you tap away with the stylus and minimizes quickly into the title bar of the active window when you don't need it.
"I don't need proof," said Lisha Papert Lercari, director of the Music and the Brain Project of the 42nd Street Development Fund in Manhattan, which has developed a keyboard program that is now being taught in 23 schools "The kids are discovering form and patterns, and noticing things we never saw".
But for all its humor, his answer was no throwaway, either as an assessment of the prized and pampered Newberry organ or as a metaphor for Yale's keyboard programming in general -- a comprehensive and, at times, challenging series of organ and piano recitals.
Keyboard programming was done by Eric Kupper.
That means out with punk-pop, Baroque flourishes, acoustic interludes and echoes of power pop and mope-rock, and in with keyboards, programmed drums and Auto-Tuned vocals, though the romantic strife remains.
There are hip-hop drum loops, guitar power chords and brooding trip-hop synthesizers alongside the sputtering Senegalese tama drums and keyboards programmed to plink like a kora, the griot's harp-guitar.
The elements – electronics, keyboards, programmed drums – are those of the dancefloor, but Chaleur Humaine, even at its most insistent, sounds as if Letissier parked several streets away from the club and chose not to get out of her car.
The Gramercy lineup also included Bareto, a Peruvian band whose lilting electric cumbias reminded this American listener of Los Lobos, and Astro, from Chile, which released its debut album last year; its keyboards, programmed beats, a robust rhythm section and utopian lyrics added up to euphoric songs.
