It was around seven years ago that I started to get interested in “algorithmic composition” – i.e. using rule-based computer algorithms to create music. I’m not talking about AI here, which involves gigantic, data-intensive programs that absorb millions of human-created musical works and use them to work out the compositional rules for themselves. As I’ve written about before, present-day AIs can produce very credible-sounding results, and I’m sure they’l...