hey everyone
i'm setting out to build an automatic chord progression system - you tell it to start in C Major, centre around E minor, with a given deviance factor, and then bang it repeatedly and it spits out a new chord/voicing each time you bang it, that makes harmonic sense and sounds good as a progression.
(why? it struck me while i was listening to my friend's set the other night that too much dance- or dance-derived music is harmonically static. simple solution: make a quasi-intelligent system that knows what progressions sound good, and get it to do all the work. imagining coupling it up to fiddle~ and a vocalist..)
based on jazz harmony theory, which i have had the tiniest of nosies into, this will involve encoding knowledge about all twelve scales, major and minor, as well as the modes and relationships between them. before i start, is there anything i should look at that might help, or solve the problem for me, or make the whole idea irrelevant?
cheers d