Computation and Visualization of Musical Structures in Chord-Based Simplicial Complexes
Résumé
We represent chord collections by simplicial complexes. A temporal organization of the chords corresponds to a path in the com- plex. A set of n-note chords equivalent up to transposition and inversion is represented by a complex related by its 1-skeleton to a generalized Ton- netz. Complexes are computed with MGS, a spatial computing language, and analyzed and visualized in Hexachord, a computer-aided music anal- ysis environment. We introduce the notion of compliance, a measure of the ability of a chord-based simplicial complex to represent a musical object compactly. Some examples illustrate the use of this notion to characterize musical pieces and styles.
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