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*Yes, one may play games with a machine or use it for speculative purposes, but the result will not be "finished": it will represent only an experiment-interesting, perhaps, but no more."
*Now everything that is rule or repeated constraint is part of the mental machine.
*But computers are not really responsible for the introduction ofmathematics into music; rather it is mathematics that makes use of the computer in composition. Yet if people's minds are in general ready to recognize the usefulness of geometry in the plastic arts (architecture, painting, etc.), they have only one more stream to cross to be able to conceive of using more abstract, non-visual mathematics and machines as aids to musical composi- tion, which is more abstract than the plastic arts. p 132.
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