- Conceptual blending is a cognitive theory developed by Fauconnier and Turner.
- Elements from diverse, but structurally-related, spaces are blended giving rise to new spaces.
- Blending in harmony was tested with the CHAMELEON melodic harmonisation assistant.
- CHAMELEON learns harmonies from diverse data, blends the learned harmonic elements and harmonises melodies with the blended styles.
Selected publications:
Kaliakatsos-Papakostas, M., Makris, D., Tsougras, C. and Cambouropoulos, E., "Learning and Creating Novel Harmonies in Diverse Musical Idioms: An Adaptive Modular Melodic Harmonisation System", Journal of Creative Music Systems, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. In Press, 2016.(PDF)
Kaliakatsos-Papakostas M., Makris D., Zacharakis A., Tsougras K., and Cambouropoulos E. "Learning and blending harmonies in the context of a melodic harmonisation assistant", Proceedings of the 12th IFIP International Conference on Artificial Intelligent Applicationsand Innovations (AIAI 2016), Thessaloniki, Greece, 2016
Kaliakatsos-Papakostas, M., Confalonieri, R., Corneli, J., Zacharakis, A. and Cambouropoulos, E.: An Argument-based Creative Assistant for Harmonic Blending, (best paper award) Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC), 2016.
Eppe M., Confalonieri R., MacLean E., Kaliakatsos–Papakostas, E., Cambouropoulos E., Schorlemmer M., Codescu M., Kuhnberger K.-U., "Computational invention of cadences and chord progressions by conceptual chord-blending", Proceeding of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2015
Kaliakatsos-Papakostas, M., Cambouropoulos, E., Kühnberger, K.-U., Kutz, O., Smaill, A., "Concept Invention and Music: Creating Novel Harmonies via Conceptual Blending", Proceeding of the 9th Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology – CIM14 , 2014
Cambouropoulos, E., Kaliakatsos-Papakostas, M., Tsougras, C., "An idiom-independent representation of chords for computational music analysis and generation", Proceeding of the joint 11th Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC) and 40th International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), 2014
Kaliakatsos-Papakostas, M., Cambouropoulos, E., "Probabilistic harmonisation with fixed intermediate chord constraints", Proceeding of the joint 11th Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC) and 40th International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), 2014