Computer-composed music

Finally, there is a question of a computer helping composer in composing. Computer can indeed be a natural helping tool for a composer, since in composing there are often some strictly mechanic parts. In baroque or classical -- or every kind of music – one part of composers job is rather algorithmic, mechanical in intellectual sense. Composing is more of a practical, immediate kind of activity that more closely corresponds to programing than mathematical tasks. Programing tasks are, just like music, more about common sense than bare abstractions. In future, composing may well be connected with algorithmic science. Computers job is to help with this, so that human mind can concentrate on what is pure creativity and communication.

On another way, computer can help a composer with random-input and help him find what he seeks for. An idea of a computer completely composing a piece within given parameters from the composer is also a possibility. There can be a whole science of how to use computers in composing. A composer can concentrate on how to excite audiences, on communication, and stop thinking about mere technical details. He is the spiritus movens of a piece, and one part of the job – not only reproductive but also compositionally mechanical and random compositional – is done by a computer.

It is necessary to warn that extensively relying on computers and programing, as critics say, hides the potential to dumb us down and lower clarity of thinking, by constantly recursively making minor changes and over-use writing of thoughts down, instead of keeping them in our heads to achieve depth of reflection. It converts what intellectual and creative work always have been into a lighter form of itself, like converting body-building into aerobic. Computer can potentially do to us intellectually the same what too much comfort can do to us physically – we start weakening and degenerating.