Algorithmic Music Composition

Algorithmic composition was already popular before the rise of the computer. In the Renaissance, dice based composition games were popular. In such game, a composition was stitched together from different fragments, where selection and order of these fragments was decided by the roll of a dice. Then, in 1957 Hiller and Isaacson [8] were the first to make a computer generate a musical composition. They used a computer of the University of Illinois to generate a composition for a string quartet.