Sandy Maguire: Musical Signal Functions
Musical Signal Functions
← → November 4, 2026
We’ve been chatting for a few days about my vision for a constructive model of music. So far it’s been rather loosey-goosey; lots of vibes, some semantics, but nothing in the way of implementation. Today let’s get our boots muddy and do enough implementation that we have something concrete to talk about.
Events and Signals
In particular, in Musical Signals we discussed a Signal type that is a continuous function of time, equipped with a set of interesting times that we actually care about. In addition, we proposed an Event type that we will use in…
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