Title: Data-Driven Exploration of Musical Chord Sequences
Author(s): Eric Nichols, Dan Morris, Sumit Basu
Summary: While I am not a musical expert by any means, I will attempt to summarize this one the best I can. The creators of this article basically wanted to create a system that would allow musical artists to better explore their creativity and the music of others with a simple computer interface. But, instead of using a genre slider, like say from County to Rock, Hip hop, etc, they use a chord based slider interface. They use several formulas to achieve the result of the grouping, called "chord clustering", which allows them to use the slider tool that they have developed to achieve a smart database of chords based on the user's slider choices. The authors performed a user study to judge the effectiveness of their tool, including a demonstration of the tool, and a questionnaire that was filled out afterwards. Users seemed generally satisfied with the tool, although some expressed interest in an even greater level of control over the music selected.
Shaun's Thoughts: It is hard for me to form an opinion on this article, not having enough experience with musical instruments or playing anything to form an opinion on it. However, the fact that I was not able to acquire much information from this article may mean that the article was a bit too complex for a non-musical person to understand. I do think that the tool that they created is very useful though, as far as leading to new creative exploration possibilities for the musicians that would use it.
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