Cent mille milliards de poèmes
by Raymond Queneau · first published 1961
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I want to mount a small defense (softly? narrowly? I agree with most of your specifics) of the state of the art(s). Not looking for a fight. :) Procedural art is both new, and it isn't. There's already a reasonably rich (if still fairly new in the sweep of art history) tradition of procedural art within the broader category of conceptual art. Some simple, accessible examples are Raymond Queneau'
on “Australians making music with computer code” ↗Here 8.06e+67 is 52! (that is, you can shuffle the 52 tracks in any order). The article includes some technical details about the player implementation, which seems clever (it literally renders a visualization of a deck of cards which get shuffled and turned over and dealt in the browser as it switches from one track to another). This reminds me a lot of the Oulipo, especially Queneau's Cent mil
on “Developing an audio player for Me Rex’s “Megabear”” ↗