This was mind-blowing. In some ways it was also a huge troll, getting a bunch of real geeks and professionals to give a standing ovation to dubstep like that :-).
At the actual conj, it was surreal.
Hopefully they weren't applauding the dubstep, rather the compelling notion that with a tool like Overtone they can trade in their programming skills for musicality. That and the other million cool things that simply fall out when your synthesis, composition and performance are all representable in a formal language...
yes, half-joking about that. That's definitely what did it for me, as a programmer who's always been pretty good at music. I think that with overtone we can build abstraction layers up and down to enable really cool stuff for people that would just like to think music in its own terms, instead of projecting their thoughts at the inflexible interfaces of the tools they have.