Generative Audio

Brian Eno coined the term generative audio to refer to music that is produced by a system, and is constantly changing. While it would seem that music produced by a computer would sound cold and machine-like, there are a variety of techniques that can be used to produced aurally-pleasing music. A technique that http://tones.wolfram.com/generate/ uses is called cellular automata. It is a simple algorithm which can be used to create wildly complex and unique patterns. Once these patterns are generated, musical knowledge can be applied to songs which could easily be mistaken for a human-produced song.