Sandy Maguire: From Instantaneous Events to Musical Spans
From Instantaneous Events to Musical Spans
← November 5, 2026
We’ve been thinking a lot about musical structures over these last few posts. Today we’re going to look into some rhythmic concerns, and in particular, figure out how to turn a discrete signal of instantaneous events into something that actually looks like music.
Recall that we’ve been working with a Signal a type, which is a continuous function of Time -> a, packaged along with a set of “interesting times” that we might be interested in looking at. We smuggle discrete events into these interesting times. But what makes a time…
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