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Nearly one century ago now, Duchamp showed that you could be an artist by exposing a urinal, then André Breton showed how litterature could be created through automatic writing, then junk art showed that any item could be used to create art, then Karlheinz Stockhausen showed how music could be based on aleatoric elements, then John Cage showed how music could be strictly be reduced to pure silence, amongst others.
(and I'm just using some of the most famous examples, of course - I could also mention James Tenney's 3 pages in the shape of a pear)
Now I just don't see why, with all those things that happened in the 20th century and expanded the definition of art, someone who creates music with a computer would not be considered a musician, and an artist.
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