Figure 3.

An algorithmic music mosaic producing salty, sour, bitter, and sweet music from a classic musical dictionary. The figure depicts the sequential steps of the algorithm: (A) the three voices forming a segment of a taste-word improvisation are extracted; (B) quotes are selected from a large corpus of classic music that best resemble the melodic features of each voice; (C) quotes are modified in order to match the characteristics of the original segment in duration, pitch, articulation, and loudness; (D) the original segment is replaced by the quotes, voice by voice, and (E) the resultant piece is harmonically modified in order to match chord dissonance with the original. MIDI files for every score in the figure are available at supplementary materials.