Good artists copy, great artists steal: Strategies for creative exploitation of the CHAMELEON harmonisation assistant
| Main Authors: | Asterios Zacharakis, Stamatia Kalaitzidou, Maximos Kaliakatsos-Papakostas, Emilios Cambouropoulos |
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| Format: | Proceeding Journal |
| Terbitan: |
, 2020
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| Online Access: |
https://zenodo.org/record/3898769 |
Daftar Isi:
- This paper presents an experiment designed to investigate the influence of a creativity support tool on music creation. Twenty five participants were asked to harmonise two very similar melodies, the first on their own and the second while given the opportunity to interact with the CHAMELEON harmonisation assistant. CHAMELEON can offer a variety of solutions in a melodic harmonisation task by harmonising according to a number of idioms and/or their blends. Comparison between the produced harmonisations by the participants and their selection of favourite CHAMELEON examples indicated that the majority of them were directly influenced by the solutions offered by the system. Three strategies by which participants exploited CHAMELEON were identified: borrowing of full measures or long chord sequences, borrowing of one or more single chords and finally, adoption of general concepts existing in the CHAMELEON examples. We argue that these findings indicate that the system has the potential to stimulate and promote creative thinking.