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I'd have to agree with Whoneedsscience on that Autechre piece. That is not convincing. If I was to attempt to make a computer that will generate complex artistic sounding music that is pleasing to the human ear, I'd probably build a database of popular melodies and create a program that derives music roughly out of those melodies. I suspect that many so called creative humans do something like that subconsciously, anyway. I'm not a musician, but I can recognize thousands of popular songs within 5 seconds of hearing it. So, I think the real question of study is why do we perceive some things as being beautiful and other things as being ugly? If we can crack this, then we can insert the proper amount of prejudice to the randomly generated melodies of computers.
"It's puzzling that Eden is synonymous with paradise when, if you think about it at all, it's more like a maximum-security prison with twenty-four hour surveillance." -Ann Druyan
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