Music Man

A computer program has been used to create a piece of music which will be performed by the London Symphony Orchestra.  But this is simply a modern take on an idea which has been around for a long, long time.  The relation between mathematical patterns and music has been known about certainly since the time of the Ancient Greeks and several 18th century composers - most famously Mozart - experimented with what was called Musikalisches Würfelspiel which involved rolling dice to "stitch together" small fragments of music in some random order to generate a unique composition.  Nothing new under the sun, you see.