[onion2k]

Even if the musical output was impressive, I can't think of people developing a deep relationship with it outside of novelty.

There are plenty of times and places where people want high quality "music" but don't want to actually engage with it on any level - the music that tells you you're still connected when you're waiting for a conference call, the low volume background music in some retail environments, the music in a lift. If "pleasant musical noise" could be generated automatically and to a sufficient quality I think there'd be a pretty decent market for it.

[ashleyblackmore]

That's true.

Eno worked on a number of projects to generate music years ago, with Bloom and similar: http://www.generativemusic.com/. A quick fiddle with that can definitely generate some banal hold/elevator music.

[eru]

Or in a video game, where you'd want the music to react to events.