How, And Why, I Taught My Computer To Compose Its Own Music

John Supko: “As Bill [Seaman] and I saw it, human creativity can be defined as making connections – governed by unpredictable, subjective forces – between seemingly unrelated bits of information. Music is particularly well suited to serve as a model for the creative process. Human composers have multiple components of information – melody, harmony, rhythm – at their fingertips. … These elements tend to implicate each other and emerge together from the composer’s imagination. Bill and I wanted to emulate this organic emergence of interrelated elements in the computer.”