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# Random Walks on Neo-Riemannian Spaces: Towards Generative Transformations

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<identifier identifierType="DOI">10.5281/zenodo.7088389</identifier>
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<creator>
<creatorName>Nguyen, Philon</creatorName>
<givenName>Philon</givenName>
<familyName>Nguyen</familyName>
<affiliation>Concordia University</affiliation>
</creator>
<creator>
<familyName>Tsabary</familyName>
<affiliation>Concordia University</affiliation>
</creator>
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<title>Random Walks on Neo-Riemannian Spaces: Towards Generative Transformations</title>
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<publisher>Zenodo</publisher>
<publicationYear>2022</publicationYear>
<dates>
<date dateType="Issued">2022-09-17</date>
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<rights rightsURI="info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess">Open Access</rights>
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<description descriptionType="Abstract">&lt;p&gt;Random walks, fractional Brownian motion and stochastic processes have been used extensively by composers such as Iannis Xenakis and others, creating instantly recognizable textures. A trained ear can differentiate a uniform random walk from a Poisson process or an fBm process and random rotations. In the opera Sophocles: Antigone by one of the authors of this paper, random walks on neo- Riemannian PLR spaces were experimented with yielding mixed impressions of process music and post-romantic chromaticism. When the random walk is steered by transformational rules, special textures and harmonies emerge. We propose a new kind of parameterizable random walks, a generative system, on a space of arbitrary length chords equipped with an arbitrary distance measure steered from a customizable corpus learned by the system. The corpus provides a particular texture and harmony to the generative process. The learned neo-Riemannian spaces equipped with some distance measure provide the transformational rule base of the concatenative synthesis process.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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