European Research Council Digi-Score Project

Digital scores utilising computational technology and digital media are emerging worldwide as the next evolutionary stage in the concept of the music score. They are generating new music experiences, innovative compositional approaches, novel performance opportunities, and broader accessibility for a vast number of musicians and music cultures around the world. This project will launch the first scientific investigation into the transformation of the music score through computational technologies, and Cat is very pleased to be one of 4 international partners.

The project website, which has plenty of interesting materials, videos, etc, can be found here.

Led by Prof. Dr Craig Vear at Du Montfort University,Leicester, UK. Other partners are Prof. Dr. Sandeep Bhagwati (Canada) - whose work focuses on how digital score technologies can be useful and foster musical change for musicians who normally do not work with paper notation during performance, Prof. Dr. Kenneth Fields (USA), a world leader in telematic and network music performance and score distribution and Prof. Dr. Li Xiaobing (China) has composed digital scores for multi-media, Chinese opera and small ensembles and has written on the cultural history of digital music in China.

The core aims of the project are to:

        (1) determine scientific knowledge of how digital scores stimulate new creative opportunities and experiences within a range of music practices,

        (2) develop a theoretical framework for digital scores as an important transdisciplinary area of research,

        (3) build a scientific study of inclusive digital musicianship through the transformative potential of the digital score.

The Digital Score project (DigiScore) is funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant agreement No. ERC-2020-COG – 101002086).