8+8=4: Formalizing Time Units to Handle Symbolic Music Durations

Autor:	Karystinaios, Emmanouil, Foscarin, Francesco, Jacquemard, Florent, Sakai, Masahiko, Tojo, Satoshi, Widmer, Gerhard
Rok vydání:	2023
Předmět:	Computer Science - Sound Electrical Engineering and Systems Science - Audio and Speech Processing
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
Popis:	This paper focuses on the nominal durations of musical events (notes and rests) in a symbolic musical score, and on how to conveniently handle these in computer applications. We propose the usage of a temporal unit that is directly related to the graphical symbols in musical scores and pair this with a set of operations that cover typical computations in music applications. We formalize this time unit and the more commonly used approach in a single mathematical framework, as semirings, algebraic structures that enable an abstract description of algorithms/processing pipelines. We then discuss some practical use cases and highlight when our system can improve such pipelines by making them more efficient in terms of data type used and the number of computations. Comment: In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research (CMMR 2023), Tokyo, Japan
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/2310.14952 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv