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open-chord-charts / chart-dsl

Design of the domain specific language to represent a chord chart in a text file
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Idea: use Markov chains and charts library to generate new charts! #1

Open Janiczek opened 7 years ago

Janiczek commented 7 years ago

To get this out of the way: thanks for the talk at ElmEurope 2017 - I really enjoyed it :)

It could be nice experiment to take the existing charts library, normalize it into Nashville number system or something similar (to get all the charts into the same key) and teach a Markov chain with it, and see what kind of music does it generate!

If you had a database of charts, I would volunteer to get my Markov chain library up to speed (read: 0.18 or 0.19 :) ) and try to do something with your data!

cbenz commented 7 years ago

Hi @Janiczek

Thanks for your idea :-) I discussed about it with Evan too, during the Elm Europe conference.

About the Nashville number system, perhaps what you mean is to store the chords using an absolute number (like II V I progressions), which would avoid storing the global chart key in the Chart record.

About Markov chains we could either generate new charts, either music. The former implies having a database of charts, and the latter a database of melodies.

Basically the roadmap is to finish the basic features of the chart editor, have a decent(ralized) backend, and populate the database with charts.

After that I'm interested too in chords progressions generation based on Markov chains, as an experiment.

Is your library published?

cbenz commented 7 years ago

Here is it, but as you said, not up-to-date with the latest Elm version: http://package.elm-lang.org/packages/janiczek/elm-markov/latest

(Using Markov chains is not a priority for me now, there is no urgency to update the library)