Creative Chord Sequence Generation for Electronic Dance Music

Creative Chord Sequence Generation for Electronic Dance Music

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This paper describes the theory and implementation of a digital audio workstation plug-in for chord sequence generation.The plug-in is intended to encourage and inspire a composer of electronic dance music to explore loops through chord sequence pattern definition, position locking and generation into unlocked positions.A basic cyclic first-order statistical ilootpaperie model is extended with latent diatonicity variables which permits sequences to depart from a specified key.

Degrees of diatonicity of generated sequences can be explored and parameters for voicing the sequences can be manipulated.Feedback on the kaiser copy stands concepts, interface, and usability was given by a small focus group of musicians and music producers.