Sonifying Letter Frequencies: Generating Chord Sequences from Text

Year: 2023 Authors: Donald Spector

Core claim

A chord-based, Huffman-inspired mapping of letters to harmonic distance can produce more structured and musically useful sonifications of text than note-by-note mappings.

Topics

sonification, text-to-music mapping, letter frequency, harmonic structure

Domains

information theory, encoding, combinatorics, music composition, auditory display, sound art, algorithmic design

Methods

Huffman-inspired encoding, frequency analysis, chord assignment, text preprocessing

Media

English text, chord sequences, Western tonal harmony, Wikipedia page text

Source status

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