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Dear All,
On Friday, 2nd December at 1:00pm, Nicolas Froment and Thomas Bonte will
present the seminar 'The future of digital sheet music'.
The talk will take place in room 209 in the Electronic Engineering
building, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS.
Directions on how to access the building can be found at
http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/about/campus-map.php. If you experience
problems entering, the lab phone number is +44 (0)20 7882 5343 and if I am
not available, anyone else in the lab should be able to help. If you are
coming from outside Queen Mary, please let me know, so I can make sure
no-one is stuck outside the doors. Details of future seminars can be found
at http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/newsevents/researchgroupevents.php?i=12.
All are welcome to attend. For those unable to do so, a video recording of
the seminar will be made available online after a few days.
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an email and I'll be happy to do so.
Friday's seminar (2nd December, 1:00pm)
Title:
The future of digital sheet music
Speakers:
Nicolas Froment and Thomas Bonte
Abstract:
MuseScore is open source music notation software written in Qt/C++ and
licensed under GPLv2. Three years ago, MuseScore was a rather obscure
software package only working on Linux. Today, MuseScore runs on all
platforms in 43 languages and rivals with the commercial competitors
Finale and Sibelius. With more than 120.000 downloads per month,
MuseScore has become curriculum software in music education world
wide.
Nicolas Froment and Thomas Bonte, two of the MuseScore core
developers, will reveal how MuseScore is reinventing itself as a
service in the cloud and as an app for mobile devices. The mission is
to make a complete digital experience around sheet music, from desktop
to web to mobile. On the numerous Music Hack Days which the two have
been attending, they have been working with MIR researchers to extend
this experience with a score follower based on chroma features, optical
music recognition to import pdf scores, and many more nifty hacks.
Future C4DM seminars:
Geraint Wiggins - QMUL
Wed 25th January 2012
(Seminar details tbc)
C4DM Website : http://www.elec.qmul.ac.uk/digitalmusic/index.htm
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Peter Foster
Postgraduate Research Student
Room 104, Electronic Engineering Bldg
Centre for Digital Music
Queen Mary, University of London
Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK
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