I'm unconvinced that current trends and artists imply a terrible "fate" for either algorithmic or symbolic language processing. People are still working on both

I'm unconvinced that current trends and artists imply a terrible "fate" for either algorithmic or symbolic language processing. People are still working on both, and there's lots of potential. Functional representation of music theory is interesting from an educational perspective, for example, even if avant garde composers have moved on to other methods. And by the way, isn't Band-in-a-Box still pretty widely used? It's certainly been a lot of fun for me in playing around with jazz improvisation.