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This kind of AI composer would be just perfect for games, especially indy games. Most indy game developers can't afford good original soundtracks and if there was a service that provided them for cheap...

That's an idea for a stratup.

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Indeed. Cope's musical grammar would be a great place to start hacking around. This reminds also of the iMUSE (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMUSE) from the SCUMM game engine, which would improvise soundtrack transitions based on motifs and in-game events.

Perhaps. On the other hand there's a lot of music on the creative commons nowadays, if you drop the requirement of originality.

However generating music that adapts to the game may be more than worthwhile.

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