On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Niels Mayer <nielsmayer@gmail.com> wrote:

PS: I think the "tiling problem" is actually a direct analogy to music
making... which involves fitting together "tiles" (musical passages,
patterns, etc) that are highly constrained in terms of "geometry"
(pitch, key, time-signature, BPM, starting and ending pitches or
chords). Music making is clearly an "undecidable" problem, which is
where human creativity comes in. Can computers help us "tile" music
more easily and therefore augment our musical creativity??

this might be how users of ableton live think about making music, and more generally, users of computer software aimed at pattern-based music composition/creation.

but i would submit that if you offered this description of making music to musicians who play instruments or sing, they would find it unrecognizable.