Re: [Haskell-cafe] When the unknown is unknown

2010-06-24 Thread Martin Drautzburg
On Thursday, 24. June 2010 00:04:18 Alexander Solla wrote: On Jun 23, 2010, at 1:50 PM, Martin Drautzburg wrote: I said that a rhythm is a series of Moments (or Beats), each expressed as fractions of a bar. But each Moment also has volume. So I could model rhythm as Pairs of (Moment,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] When the unknown is unknown

2010-06-24 Thread Alexander Solla
On Jun 24, 2010, at 11:14 AM, Martin Drautzburg wrote: Another question is: how much past and future knowledge do I need. (I believe the fundamental property of music is that things are ordered). In order to compute Volumes from Moments I can get pretty much away without the past, but

[Haskell-cafe] When the unknown is unknown

2010-06-23 Thread Martin Drautzburg
Hello all, I am currently playing with Paul Hudak's Euterpea (a music program, formely called Haskore) and I am trying to teach it about rhythm. I said that a rhythm is a series of Moments (or Beats), each expressed as fractions of a bar. But each Moment also has volume. So I could model

Re: [Haskell-cafe] When the unknown is unknown

2010-06-23 Thread Alexander Solla
On Jun 23, 2010, at 1:50 PM, Martin Drautzburg wrote: I said that a rhythm is a series of Moments (or Beats), each expressed as fractions of a bar. But each Moment also has volume. So I could model rhythm as Pairs of (Moment, Volume). However I certanly do not want to specify both the