Consideration of MIR tools separately from reflections on methods of musical representation is a rather arbitrary distinction, closely entwined as the two activities are. [read more...]

Sheet music notation as constructed out of clefs, staves, bars and notes is a highly effective distillation of the idea of a musical work but is seriously limited in terms of what it can faithfully represent about the expressive qualities of a performance, e.g. timbre, changes in tempo and very specific interpretations to do with the onset and decay of notes. [read more...]