This paper proposes a new method for handling the durations of musical events in computer applications. The researchers introduce a temporal unit linked to the symbols in musical scores, along with a set of operations for common computations in music applications. By formalizing this time unit and the traditional approach within a single mathematical framework, they aim to improve the efficiency of data type usage and the number of computations required. The paper highlights practical use cases and the potential improvements that this system can bring to processing pipelines.
Publication date: 23 Oct 2023
Project Page: https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.14952v1
Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.14952
