Ambient and Generative music

Being in a society where most music I listen to is composed of organized notes with a consonant melody, the whole ambient sound is kind of awkward. Hearing some of Brian Eno's work my mind quite often feels like I'm on drugs, like I am sitting on a cloud. It's kind of creepy.But at the same time I think it allows you to be free and break away from tradition. Who says that music has to be something with a steady and rhythmic eight count?

As far as generative music goes I donot understand all four primary perspectives that characterizes it. I some what can understand the structural style of generative music and the creative style. I don't know if I understand the interactive style of generative music. I do agree with Eno's theory of music changing and evolving. Here are the the four theories in case someone's wondering what I am talking about:

Linguistic/Structural

music composed from analytic theories that are so explicit as to be able to generate structurally coherent material (Loy and Abbott 1985; Cope 1991). This perspective has its roots in the generative grammars of language (Chomsky 1956) and music (Lerdahl and Jackendoff 1983), which generate material with a recursive tree structure.

[edit] Interactive/Behavioural

music generated by a system component that ostensibly has no inputs. That is, 'not transformational' (Rowe 1991; Lippe 1997:34; Winkler 1998). Brian Eno's Generative Music 1 is an example of this.

[edit] Creative/Procedural

music generated by processes that are designed and/or initiated by the composer. Steve Reich's Its gonna rain and Terry Riley's In C are examples of this (Eno 1996).

[edit] Biological/Emergent

non-deterministic music (Biles 2002), or music that cannot be repeated, for example, ordinary wind chimes (Dorin 2001). This perspective comes from the broader generative art movement. This revolves around the idea that music, or sounds may be 'generated' by a musician 'farming' parameters within an ecology, such that the ecology will perpetually produce different variation based on the parameters and algorithms used