Compositional manipulation generally relies on low-level tools to achieve effect. Although it often produces beauty, it seldom has a dramatic effect on the user, since the associations of the piece have been purposely muted. On the other hand, most compositional works are also playing with suggestivity, so a balance may be struck.

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