Table 4.
Summary of the free text answers provided by the participants to the four post-task questions regarding the computationally supported task.
| Group | Questions | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| What did you like the most about CHAMELEON? | What did you like the least about CHAMELEON? | What feature of CHAMELEON would you redesign if you had the opportunity? | What are your thoughts regarding computational support in music composition after this experience? | |
| Composers | The capability of harmonic blending (3), the playback possibility | The lack of voice leading (2), the visualization of the produced score (2) | Some of the harmonic idioms which are not very convincing style-wise (2), more harmonic styles and scales (2) | Mostly for amateurs (2), can save time and provide ideas, computer creates the possibilities among which a composer can select |
| Students | The capability of harmonic blending (8), diverse solutions (5), ease of use-speed-playback (4), gives you ideas (3), saves you time | The visualization of the produced score was hard to read (7), the limited harmonic idioms available (5), the resulting harmonizations (4) | Increase the available harmonic idioms (6), make scores easier to read (3), include harmonic (2) analysis | Can give rise to new ideas (8), can increase productivity (5), can promote creativity (3), music composition should be an exclusively human endeavor (4), useful up to a point (3) |
Numbers in parentheses indicate the number of participants that provided a similar answer.