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DigiScore is a five year research project investigating the transformation of the music score through computational technologies.

Funded by a European Research Council grant and based at University of Nottingham.
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🔊 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
🎵 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
October 1, 2025 at 8:17 AM
👀 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
September 10, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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
August 6, 2025 at 10:52 AM
🧠 🎵 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
July 23, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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
July 9, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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
July 2, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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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DigiScore Concert as part of MNM Festival in Montreal
Supermusiqe Ensemble Performance
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June 25, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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...
June 18, 2025 at 9:30 AM
🤩 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
Indic Music Workshop
Smruti Ranga and DigiTable digital scores
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June 11, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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
June 4, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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
May 28, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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
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.
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May 23, 2025 at 8:01 AM
🤩🎉 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
May 21, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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
May 7, 2025 at 10:01 AM
🔍 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
April 30, 2025 at 8:27 AM
📣 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
Point Line Piano
Virtual Reality created in collaboration with OpenEndedGroup (Marc Downie and Paul Kaiser)
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April 16, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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
April 15, 2025 at 10:05 AM
📣 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
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…
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April 9, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Great event not to be missed 🤩 Register below 👇
Don't forget to register, this Thursday at 18:00!
This free event is part of the @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social Making Waves Event Season, and is run in collaboration with @braiduk.bsky.social!

📅 Thursday 10 April at 18.00
📍 Edinburgh Futures Institute & online
🎟️ Tickets & more info ▶️ edin.ac/3WJhuUH
April 8, 2025 at 3:52 PM
📢 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
April 2, 2025 at 3:13 PM
📣 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
March 27, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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
March 26, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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
March 18, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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
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...
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March 12, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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
March 3, 2025 at 11:05 AM