Composition Or Randomness?

Joel Hruska has an article over at Ars Technica about a new venture by the Who’s Pete Townshend. The Lifehouse Method is supposed to produce a musical portrait of a person by using a variety of sound and image inputs. I can’t say that the results that I’ve heard strike me as being very interesting. As Hrsuka says, the portraits sound to me as having similar compositional skills to those of Nora, the piano-playing cat. Over to you, Nora…