Lambda Calculus and Music Calculi

Yann Orlarey (1) , Dominique Fober (1) , Stéphane Letz (1) , Mark Bilton

1 GRAME - Centre national de création musicale [Lyon]

This article presents an approach in the design of music programming languages based on Lambda Calculus. It shows, through several examples, that a purely descriptive language, that is to say a language without any programming capability, can be equipped with programming capabilities by the addition of a limited number of simple constructs.

Mots clés: lambda calculus; music

Domaines: Informatique [cs]

Yann Orlarey, Dominique Fober, Stéphane Letz, Mark Bilton. Lambda Calculus and Music Calculi. International Computer Music Conference, 1994, Aarhus, Denmark. pp.243-250. ⟨hal-02158947⟩