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From paper sheet music to computer music files: the needs of classical music composers and how software developers contribute to progress

From paper sheet music to computer music files: the needs of classical music composers and how software developers contribute to progress

  How composers try to combine the use of paper and computer

Professional music composers are high skilled users of both computers music and music paper. In their practice, they try to combines the advantages of paper sheet music use and computer music tools.

Their main questions are not related to the best way to exploit existing music composition and notation software but to the best manner to…

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Sheet music and music performance renewed by software developers

Sheet music and music performance renewed by software developers

  Quality and individuality of music performance: why sheet music will always be essential

Why is a live music performance attractive and highly valued, if not because it is related to a familiar musical universe?

Of course, the quality of execution has a great part in the success of the performance, even if musicians generally agree to consider that there are many equally valid ways of playing…

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Documenting a code library/a software/an API 

The necessity to write code library/API/software documentation in different forms

New software development projects include the writing of a variety of technical documents, such as design specifications, performance goals, functional specifications, … which are exploring the myriad of relationships inside programs which can contain millions of lines.

Code library/software/API documentation has…

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Being an independent music software developer : from audio to the score, coding as main process

Coding and the music industry

The music industry economy has been radically transformed through software coding, from the development of formats such as MP3 to digital recording rigs and easy programming protocols (which partly puts the technology outside the music recording studios) and programming languages for audio (like Max/Msp).

There are more than 50 years that musicians spend time…

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API change the music technology and the music business models - III. Music APIs monetization

This post is the last of three. In the first one, I tried to define what is an API. (http://tiny.cc/d7f8px) In the second one, I presented 4 main functional roles of APIs and established links between SDK and API in the digital music ecosystem. (http://tiny.cc/xetxrx)

Now I would like to sum up some points of view related to music APIs monetization.

I write here for future students in music…

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Computer music democratization: the role of independent music software developers

Researchers in computer music and popular computer musicians

From the beginning of ‘computer music’ history, there is a divide between ‘electronic musicians’ – who do not code – and ‘computer artists’ – who belong to the computer programming universe.

In the late years ‘1950, some universities already had computer music centers, with researchers involved in different projects. For example,…

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Affordances between music software developers, music composers and performers  

Affordance applied to the field of computer music

What do music software really offer to their users? What are their affordances (or more simply: relationships) with them? What role is this interaction playing in computer software results (or more clearly: capacity to execute the task)?

The word affordance, which originally comes from perceptual psychology (Gibson, 1979) is now a classic in…

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Open source competition, and so what? Some ways to be on your own way as a proprietary music software developer

Ready to launch your proprietary software, what about open source?

You just finished your studies or you began to create music software 10 years ago, in both case you are in the same situation : you are overwhelmed with open source competition.

Good news : you do not have to care about it. Of course, as it is mentioned in all good marketing books, you cannot ignore competitors. But you do not…

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