surgesg

plenty of people experimenting with what you're describing - see the work of Xenakis, Roads, Brun, etc.

Actually not the same person.

http://www.nicolascollins.com/texts/nicvsnick666.pdf

There's no replacement for good private lessons.

I'm not sure that people seriously considering graduate school (in any subject) would be influenced in their choice by a (perceived) lack of math skills.

I'm actually a composer who got interested in coding as a way to realize my music. Using Pure Data and Max/MSP, along with a bit of SuperCollider.

http://www.gregsurges.com

I consider myself a composer first, but I code my own laptop instruments and have experimented with networked performance as well. http://www.uwm.edu/~gssurges/