The problem I have with WolframTones is it tries too hard to sound like traditional human music and fails pretty badly at it. Procedurally generated music systems that don't attempt to emulate previous kinds of music fare far better (including the original link). An older example would be the original drum machines and keyboard synthesizers -- they were originally meant to function as affordable replacements for real instruments (a drum kit, piano or string quartet) and sounded pretty terrible when used in that fashion. Only when people started viewing them as instruments in their own right did they work well (and create previously unheard sounds and genres in the process).
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See also: Wolfram's Tones
http://tones.wolfram.com/
The problem I have with WolframTones is it tries too hard to sound like traditional human music and fails pretty badly at it. Procedurally generated music systems that don't attempt to emulate previous kinds of music fare far better (including the original link). An older example would be the original drum machines and keyboard synthesizers -- they were originally meant to function as affordable replacements for real instruments (a drum kit, piano or string quartet) and sounded pretty terrible when used in that fashion. Only when people started viewing them as instruments in their own right did they work well (and create previously unheard sounds and genres in the process).