@conference {5388, title = {Computational invention of cadences and chord progressions by conceptual chord-blending}, booktitle = {International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2015}, year = {2015}, pages = {In press}, publisher = {AAAI Press}, organization = {AAAI Press}, address = {Buenos Aires}, abstract = {We present a computational framework for chord invention based on a cognitive-theoretic perspective on conceptual blending. The framework builds on algebraic specifications, and solves two musicological problems. It automatically finds transitions between chord progressions of different keys or idioms, and it substitutes chords in a chord progression by other chords of a similar function, as a means to create novel variations. The approach is demonstrated with several examples where jazz cadences are invented by blending chords in cadences from earlier idioms, and where novel chord progressions are generated by inventing transition chords.}, author = {Manfred Eppe and Roberto Confalonieri and Ewen Maclean and Maximos Kaliakatsos and Emilios Cambouropoulos and Marco Schorlemmer and Kai-Uwe K{\"u}hnberger} }