Another attempt at articulating what I'm talking about! Forget TSO; I've changed a few things and am calling TSO "Rubato" instead. It will have an OS X GUI written in MacRuby, and will give the user the ability to craft sequences by simply typing words, sentences, paragraphs, and so on. I've drawn a bit of inspiration from what rubato means in Italian:
Rubato (roo-BAH-toe) A practice common in Romantic compositions of taking part of the duration from one note and giving it to another. It involves the performer tastefully stretching, slowing, or hurrying the tempo as she/he sees fit, thus imparting flexibility and emotion to the performance.
My last post on TSO sheds a bit of light on how I plan to make the logic of the beats, notes, chords, etc. work in Rubato, but this post reveals how the user will interact with the application to expressively perform music in a live environment. Stay tuned for a demo.