DigiScore

🎵 The Future of Music Scores!

We’re exploring how computational technologies are transforming the traditional music score into something dynamic, digital & interactive.

Explore innovative techniques to new performance experiences & broader accessibility for musicians

👉 digiscore.github.io

🎶 Netronomia explores distributed ensembles, where musicians sync with a networked metronome (“Netronome”) across distance.

The digital score maps shared rhythms, fostering collective timing and trust.

Explore 👉 digiscore.github.io #DigitalScore #NetworkedMusic

🎵 24 days until TENOR 2025 - The International Conference on Music Notation & Tech!

📍 This year: Beijing, China Conservatory of Music.

🎶 TENOR brings together researchers, technologists & creators pushing the boundaries of music notation, tools & creativity.

More👉 lnkd.in/e4eij-3V

#TENOR2025

👀 If you're interested in reading about trustworthy autonomous systems, our paper 'Five Provocations for a More Creative Trustworthy Autonomous System' is available for you.

Read the full paper 👉 tinyurl.com/33yt3jjd

#autonomoussystems #techresearch

Stunningly beautiful case study from DigiScore International Partner, Sandeep Bhagwati.

Exercices d’étrangeté III Mycorrhizia is an explorative work at the convergence of music, technology, and visual art.

Find out more: tinyurl.com/yynp29em

🧠 🎵 How you ever used a brainwave reader to create music?

It's not something you'll come across every day but we wanted to research this for shared creativity with Deaf & autistic musicians. It unites creativity & collective involvement in the development of a musical idea.

👉 tinyurl.com/mryuuehs

Netronomia II is a reimagined musical collaboration that links dispersed performers.

Netronomia II is a networked metronome to synchronise multi-city performances despite latency variations.

Find out more 👉https://tinyurl.com/yn9n77ez

#musicresearch

How to increase creativity when composing music 🎵

Our Digital Score Creativity Cards are a great way of offering new ways of creating, performing & sharing your musical ideas.

Creativity Cards FREE Download 👉 tinyurl.com/4c7trrm2

#musiceducation #musicmaking #musicteacher #musicinnovation

DigiScore Concert as part of MNM Festival in Montreal Supermusiqe Ensemble Performance

DigiScore Concert as part of MNM Festival in Montreal

This was a concert by the ensemble SuperMusique from Montreal, showcasing animated and participatory graphic scores, blending music, technology, and research.

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Is it possible to use a gaming environment to make music? Yes!

One of our 1st projects, Nautilus is inspired by an imaginary deep-sea journey of a nautilus mollusc, as it navigates deep water trenches across the oceans.

Learn how this digital score was made 👉 digiscore.github.io/pages/nautil...

Indic Music Workshop Smruti Ranga and DigiTable digital scores

🤩 A very beautiful and interesting workshop.

The Indic Music workshop explored 2 digital scores, Smruti Ranga & DigiTabla, which blend Indian classical music with interactive technology, using colour-coded notation

👉 tinyurl.com/4v8d5j6v #musicworkshop #musicresearch

Inclusive Africa Conference 2025 welcomes DigiScore Research assistant, Macharia Kelvin Njoroge as a speaker this year 🤩

We're delighted Macharia will be speaking at such an important event.

Find out more 👉 tinyurl.com/4brjkz3u

#accessiblemusic #inclusiveafricaconference

Musical robot designed for inclusive music making wins two prestigious awards 🤩

@uniofnottingham.bsky.social have just written a lovely press release about the fantastic achievements of the DigiScore project.

We have recently won two awards!

Full press release here 👉 tinyurl.com/ynuxazr4

BBC Radio 6 Music - Freak Zone Playlist, Sound of the Year Awards Ilia Rogatchevski from The Radiophonic Institute brings you the Sound of the Year.

We appeared on @BBC6Music Freak Zone last night - the playlist was put together by the Radiophonic Institute 🤩

It features the Jess+ project. Jess+ is an inclusive music ensemble of musicians, AI & robotics that create a real time feedback loop of music

Listen here 👉 tinyurl.com/3zvxzuar

🤩🎉 We're very excited to have won the BEST SOUND INNOVATION award at the Sound of The Year Awards for the Jess+ project

Jess+ is an ensemble of Musicians, AI & Robotics that create a real time feedback loop of music.

Congratulations to all the other winners! Listen here 👉 tinyurl.com/yhtjk358

Using game controllers to help disabled children make music has been incredibly lovely to see and has yielded amazing results!

For the Joytown project in Kenya we developed an interactive digital score using readily available game controllers.

Learn more 👉 tinyurl.com/wktdvhx5 #accessiblemusic

🔍 Publication Sharing: We're happy to share a paper by the DigiScore team that presents an evaluation of digital musicianship with digital scores.

Evaluation of digital musicianship in higher education through playing and creating digital scores.

👉 tinyurl.com/3hk68j85 #musicresearch #music

Point Line Piano Virtual Reality created in collaboration with OpenEndedGroup (Marc Downie and Paul Kaiser)

📣 Weekly Spotlight on the DigiScore Partners.

This week, we’re sharing the work of our partners at University of California Santa Barbara.

Point Line Piano, an audio sculpture: bringing notation to life using VR.

This is truly beautiful! 🤩

Watch 👉 tinyurl.com/bdhdcsc9 #musicinnovation #VR

We've won a Global Tech Award for Jess+ 🥳

Thank you to Orchestras Live, Sinfonia Viva, Jess Fisher, Deidre Benscik & Clare Bhabra who worked with us to evaluate the benefits of using AI & robotics to break barriers around disabled musician’s access to creative music-making.

👉 tinyurl.com/49eb2u6

Exercises in Estrangement III Mycorrhizia | Quasar As part of the Société de musique contemporaine du Québec's Tribute to Sandeep Bhagwati series, Quasar presents Exercises in Estrangement III Mycorrhizia. For the duration of a concert, let yourself…

📣 Weekly Spotlight on the DigiScore Partners. This week, the work of Sandeep Bhagwati, Concordia University.

Exercises in Estrangement III Mycorrhizia marries nature with new technologies in a work inspired by the communication between trees.

Watch here👉 tinyurl.com/en9cyy6d

#soundinnovation #ERC

Great event not to be missed 🤩 Register below 👇

📢 Our 1st weekly Spotlight on the DigiScore Partners.

This week, we’re sharing the work of Cat Hope at Monash University

🎵 DigiScore Case Study: Sound Drawing in Space.

This is a truly beautiful piece of work & a stunning performance. Watch here 👉 lnkd.in/eCtsyRnC

Read here 👉 lnkd.in/ePVriyiU

📣 Competitive open call for composers who have a practice with audio scores.

Participants will get an artist fee for a new work process plus an appropriate production budget and work with musicians in a composers' lab situation.

Find out more 👉 tinyurl.com/3za98nxc

We've recently been working on an inclusive music making project (JoyInst) for disabled children at a School in Kenya.

JoyInst is a digital score learning game that breaks barriers of accessibility to music education & making.

Learn more: tinyurl.com/wktdvhx5 #musiceducation

It's #neurodiversitycelebrationweek 🤩

Our project 'Digital Syzygies' is a Digital Score platform for Deaf & autistic musicians. This Digital Score used EEG headsets to transmit musicians’ brainwaves into a set of neural-controlled musical compositions & performances.

👉 tinyurl.com/3m9z3nej

this is a good #podcast for the #music enthusiasts :)

In Music Podcast ## About In this series, the musician Craig Vear talks with a range of musicians about what goes on in their music-making, and where they find meaning. These discussions are insightful and educational...

If you're interested in music related podcasts, here's a great one for you!

We spoke to Carla Rees about her experiences as a musician/composer. Carla has an international reputation for her innovative work.

Listen here 👉 tinyurl.com/3be2kcsn

#musicpodcast #composerlife #musicianship

It's #WorldHearingDay2025 so we're sharing a beautiful opera using sign language

'Fish dance when they are not sleeping' aims to draw attention to Deaf communities' own, separate culture, language, forms of expression, and, mostly their very different perception of the world

👉 buff.ly/4gW4AK5

TouchDesigner has a free meetup today on kinetic installations - CDM Create Digital Music London's Music Hackspace has kicked off a series of free TouchDesigner meetups - and anyone can join from anywhere online. Today's episode is on at 5 pm London time (check that world clock!), featurin...

So, I regularly write these things up and - it may reach, in reality, one or two people. (even if CDM stories are read by thousands) But those one or two people may find access to something they otherwise wouldn't. We really should continue to offer online access options.

And this looks great:

🔊 Call for researchers, composers, technologists, neuroscientists & performers to submit for TENOR 2025, Beijing, China.

2025 Theme: Notational Intelligence

Join a passionate community of musicians, researchers & composers from around the globe🌎

👉 tinyurl.com/bbxryyxw #musicresearch