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by NPMaxwell 2290 days ago
Music, like weaving, is a predecessor in using algorithms to do work. For hundreds of years, music theorists have been codifying the algorithms, or creating new algorithms, that create good music (for particular definitions of good). Like other code instantiated in a network, this code is more tailored to specific prior states and is less available to analysis of its details than prior efforts.