Still, you agree that the piece of computer music can be "interesting and worthwhile", so you already accepted it. I don't feel like you, I don't care where th

Still, you agree that the piece of computer music can be "interesting and worthwhile", so you already accepted it. I don't feel like you, I don't care where the good music comes from. But I agree what we consider of quality depends quite heavily on our subjective experiences. However, I feel similarly about theater and movies. If you want just to see a piece of storytelling, you will be more satisfied with a movie. But if acting is the part of the experience for you, then you're probably more interested in theater, where people do it live. Actually, now that I think of it, we could compare it to live performance of musical works. Again, some people enjoy the effort of the musicians, and consider it to be a part of the work, but most don't care too much if the piece is recorded. So perhaps this is a really old debate of whether the means or the end is more important in art. Based on this analogy, I would predict that in the future, most people will listen to computer generated music, and music composed by actual humans will become comparatively rare.