Abstract
Musical diversity can enrich the understanding of culture and fuel creativity. Maintaining musical diversity is thus essential. Rhythm games are a form of music interaction and are good for maintaining such diversity. However, current rhythm games can not generate new rhythms automatically when players want to play new ones. To address this issue, this paper proposes a system that can automatically generate rhythms for songs in a rhythm game. Our results reveal that in either a preferred or non-preferred music genre, compared to the duration of only listening to the song, the duration of playing the game we propose is significantly longer. In conclusion, the proposed system can be helpful in engaging people in different types of music, as well as further promoting musical diversity.