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I was interested in the possibilities of algorithmic composition: you can use algorithms to generate patterns of arbitrary complexity, add randomness, vary things mathematically. With real instrumentation, everything that's heard must be played in real time, which can weigh you down if you want to put together many musical ideas at once.
Computer music uses all the same music theory, so that's not just similar but rather identical. I'd predict that when it (computer music) gets its own Mozarts and Beethovens, the musical theory could diverge. I aspired to be such a virtuoso but in end realized that the physical experience of playing an instrument was too important to lose.