[throwaway777x]

We have had algorithmic composition for a long time. Here is a brief history of algorithmic composition from 1999 https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~blackrse/algorithm.html

What is meant by "AI Music" is not works by Iannis Xenakis or certain Autechre albums.

We should be defining all this better but we won't. It is also that there is no "AI music" equivalent of the amen break to invent new forms of art. The cultural structures and norms that made that possible no longer exist.

It really is the difference though between art and porn. A blurry distinction on paper but quite obvious in practice. Quite obvious in motivation.

[wrs]

Ever since the first electric guitarist who turned their amplifier input up way too high (*), artists have been ignoring the instructions that came with the technology and (mis)using it to make art, and they’ll do it with this one too.

(*) and before, but that’s an obvious example