... to Hold Discourse at Least with a Computer

Composers who attempt to compose music with the assistance of computers, and who, instead of keeping their mouths shut, respond to the request to tell why and how they propose to breed immortal beauty for all of us by marrying mere technical logic to fertile inspiration, these composers have to override such exalted expectations with a careful report on the notions, theoretical and otherwise, on which they base their various interests for experimental research in music. I shall attempt to do that now.