Let's talk music, no genre boundaries

I don't think AI can produce "real" art until it has a sense of mortality, love, loss, hearbreak, and a number of other very human emotions that art comes from.

I don't think what we consider art came along until we were considered to be Homos spiens rather than any species preceding. In fact, one of the attributes that defines Homos sapiens is art, as well as sophisticated tool making. For a million years or more Homos erectus and Homo heidelbergensis had simple tools that didn't improve over that million years. Than, slam, bam, boom, there was an explosion of tool making, art, sophisticated burials and other things that defined Homos sapiens. That sudden eruption of consciousness is mysterious and it is who we are. 

I dont think that A.I. could play as Maria Yudina the woman Stalin could not kill even when she refused his money answering that she will pray for his sins in his face :

No other pianist play Schubert so fiercely and with freedom   as if she danced with Schubert heart...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8V964wP1Pw&list=RDg8V964wP1Pw&start_radio=1

A documentary about this woman, a legend among Russian musicians :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF03KVIsrns

@audio-b-dog 

Easy explanation for the "mystery": aliens visited earth!   ;o)

Humans began making music to mimic the sounds in their environments. We are habituated to respond physically to sound. For some, this produces dopamine when James Brown is on stage. Meh. Garbage in, garbage out, yadda yadda. 

Everybody's best guess. I've spent many years doing research to shape mine, but it's no more true than anyone else's. No observers wrote down anything about upper Paleolithic people.Best we know about music, I think, is the horn flute that is 43,000 years old and the supposition that other musical instruments deteriorated over time. My answer works for me and what I'm writing. But I'm writing fiction.