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I've seen a lot of people using generative concepts to create music over the last year. The idea of creating an environment where your music isn't always predictable is something I've found myself drawn to in recent months. Especially because I spent a lot of time in my younger years listening to Steve Reich and Brian Eno, it's fitting that things have come full circle. Both Eno and Reich are   pioneers of the genre, doing a lot of work in the early days of creating generative music.  The reason I think I've been seeing it have something of a resurgence, is due in no small part to the fact that in the modern world of music production, we have so much control over so many individual parameters within our musical toolboxes, that it can quickly become overwhelming. There are few surprises anymore, because when you get into the habit of trying to create music you're already imagining, you can be blind to things that lay outside of that. I can see how some people, including yours truly, can become extremely overwhelmed with all of the controls, knobs, parameters and adjustments that can sometimes be required within music production. And it's in this space of confusion and chaos that I believe generative music sits. Being able to create music which can surprise you, and feels like it has a life of its own, separate from your input, is a great tool. So in this guide, we're going to take a bit of a deep dive into what generative music is, and more importantly, how you can apply some of the techniques in your own music to let go of some of the control and see what results you can get. So let's jump right in.   What is generative music? Generative Music is a term popularised by Brian Eno, to describe music that is ever-different and changing, and which is created by a system.  So, in lamen's terms, you're creating a system which creates the music for you, and you define the rules of that system.  These rules can run the gamut from simple probability rules, to much more comple