I think (1) potentially has a place for cases where it’s supposed to be background music that you wouldn’t really pay attention to (but shouldn’t repeat).
It’s pretty easy to take a style of music and produce something that sort of goes round and round modulating into different keys and so forth without actually going anywhere in particular.
But what you’re really doing is composing a parameterised piece of music and the randomly substituting parameters as you play it. This is what people are doing in real-life with things like cocktail piano anyway. If you can’t compose to begin with then you don’t stand a chance, however.
It’s pretty easy to take a style of music and produce something that sort of goes round and round modulating into different keys and so forth without actually going anywhere in particular.
But what you’re really doing is composing a parameterised piece of music and the randomly substituting parameters as you play it. This is what people are doing in real-life with things like cocktail piano anyway. If you can’t compose to begin with then you don’t stand a chance, however.