The reason for it has a lot to do with how Academia works. You need to write papers and produce innovative works. If you don't then you won't get funding or advance your career.
> or (currently) number and group theory.
That was Xenakis back in the 1950s !
Xenakis is the exception. He's really the foundation of academic computer music and his music is amazing and moving and his compositional concepts are still being hacked out by music programmers today.
> or (currently) number and group theory.
That was Xenakis back in the 1950s !
Xenakis is the exception. He's really the foundation of academic computer music and his music is amazing and moving and his compositional concepts are still being hacked out by music programmers today.