The T - Calculus : towards a structured programing of ( musical ) time and space February 16 , 2013

The T-calculus is a typed functional extension of the tiled signal algebra previously defined for handling, with advanced synchronization feature, audio or musical finite signals. Primarily designed for programing interactive music systems, the T-calculus can also be seen as a multi-purpose programing language proposal that addresses the difficult problem of globally asynchronous and locally synchronous (GALS) programing. Indeed, our proposal integrates both synchronous programing features for realtime audio or music signals processing and asynchronous (or event based) programing features for interactive positioning of these synthesized signals in time. Handling both spatial features (multi-channel programing) and timed features (signals positioning in time) the T-calculus can also be seen as a general purpose programing language proposal for a structured programing of time and space via a single new programing paradigm : tiled programing.