I've mentioned it before on HN, but Sid Meier worked on an application called (appropriately enough) CPU Bach for the 3DO that would algorithmically generate endless contrapuntal music all the way back in 1994.
Ohhh this looks very cool. Thank you for sharing! Will dive into this over the weekend.
It's almost week-end! But I'm pretty sure these were shared merely as historical anecdotes, and that Suno 4.5 is the bleeding edge here...
In a similar vein, there is https://aminet.net/package/mus/misc/AlgoMusic2_4u.lha, from ~96 or so.
Still, I’m excited about the product. The composer could probably use some chain of thought if it doesn’t already, and plan larger sequences and how they relate to each other. Suno is also probably the most ripe for a functional neurosymbolic model. CPE wrote an algorithm on counterpoint hundreds of years ago!
https://www.reddit.com/r/classicalmusic/comments/4qul1b/crea... (Note the original site has been taken over, but you can access the original via way back. Unfortunately I couldn’t find a save where the generation demo works…but I swear it did! I used it at the time!)