Song Kernel --- Explorations in Intuitive Use of Harmony

Juan Bender, Gabriel Lecup, and Sergio Fernandez

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract:

Song Kernel is a chord-and-note harmonizing musical input interface applicable to electronic instruments in both hardware and software format. It enables to play chords and melodies while visualizing harmonic functions of chords within a scale of western music in one single static pattern. It provides amateur musicians, as well as people with no experience in playing music, a graphic and intuitive way to play songs, manage harmonic structures and identify composition patterns.

Citation:

Juan Bender, Gabriel Lecup, and Sergio Fernandez. 2017. Song Kernel --- Explorations in Intuitive Use of Harmony. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1176352

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{jbender2017,
 abstract = {Song Kernel is a chord-and-note harmonizing musical input interface applicable to electronic instruments in both hardware and software format. It enables to play chords and melodies while visualizing harmonic functions of chords within a scale of western music in one single static pattern.  It provides amateur musicians, as well as people with no experience in playing music, a graphic and intuitive way to play songs, manage harmonic structures and identify composition patterns.  },
 address = {Copenhagen, Denmark},
 author = {Juan Bender and Gabriel Lecup and Sergio Fernandez},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1176352},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 pages = {513--514},
 publisher = {Aalborg University Copenhagen},
 title = {Song Kernel --- Explorations in Intuitive Use of Harmony},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2017/nime2017_paper0105.pdf},
 year = {2017}
}