[TheOtherHobbes]

That is it, pretty much.

The problem is that coherent musical structures are much more constrained. You can't just XYZ... into a space and get something that makes sense.

That will kind of work for low-density music, which includes a lot of landfill dance + subgenres. But these statistical models are blind to larger and more complex structures, and completely unaware of cultural context and semantics.

It's actually a harder problem than language modelling because the spaces and the grammars are much larger, especially once you start including sound quality and production values as well as arrangement and core composition.