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I don't think this idea is new, although the particular methodology is original.
Music is based on patterns. If one groks the patterns, one can easily recreate the music.
Chopin, among others, had a set of rules he used to compose with. Some of it derived from the music itself, and some of it from the work of his contemporaries. Some of it he simply made up himself, and that's what makes a Chopin piece different from that of other romantics.
I struggle with my own rules sometimes, but that's neither here nor there.
Originality in music involves taking what has come before and putting it together in new ways. I see no reason why a computer shouldn't be capable of doing that -- indeed, it strikes me that a computer could easily be better at it than a person.
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I wake up in the morning more tired than before I slept
I get through cryin' and I'm sadder than before I wept
I get through thinkin' now, and the thoughts have left my head
I get through speakin' and I can't remember, not a word that I said
- Ben Harper, Show Me A Little Shame
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