[PD] pd-based procedural chord progression database..

[Damian Stewart]

hey everyone

i'm setting out to build an automatic chord progression system - you tell 
it to start in C Major, centre around E minor, with a given deviance 
factor, and then bang it repeatedly and it spits out a new chord/voicing 
each time you bang it, that makes harmonic sense and sounds good as a 
progression.

(why? it struck me while i was listening to my friend's set the other night 
that too much dance- or dance-derived music is harmonically static. simple 
solution: make a quasi-intelligent system that knows what progressions 
sound good, and get it to do all the work. imagining coupling it up to 
fiddle~ and a vocalist..)

based on jazz harmony theory, which i have had the tiniest of nosies into, 
this will involve encoding knowledge about all twelve scales, major and 
minor, as well as the modes and relationships between them. before i start, 
is there anything i should look at that might help, or solve the problem 
for me, or make the whole idea irrelevant?

cheers
d

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