In the area of computer science, perhaps one of the most interesting developments of recent years, and one that is bound to have an impact on music and musicology, is the recent focus on the uses of G [read more...]

In all arts and humanities disciplines there are areas of enquiry that more or less lend themselves to computational methods of research and the field of music is no exception. [read more...]

The emergent popularity of a field of research that is devoted to the analysis of music as a series of acoustic sounds can be largely attributed to the shift from analogue to digital techniques over t [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 re [read more...]

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...]

The logical extension to research techniques that progress through stages of capture, representation, retrieval and analysis is to then test that analysis by playing back and comparing datasets with o [read more...]

The focus of this series of performance wiki articles is to take a very selective look at some of the ways that practitioners have used digital tools in the course of planning, designing, ‘doing’, [read more...]

Of all the sections, the initial process of formulating creative ideas for delivering effective and interesting performance works should, in theory, be the least likely to benefit from the application [read more...]

Of all the different ways of interpreting this concept, perhaps the most immediately practical application of digital tools is the widespread use of CAD (computer aided design) packages to assist desi [read more...]

Starting with an early and influential piece of software, LifeForms from Credo Interactive was used by Merce Cunningham in 1989 to choreograph dance movements prior to working with real dancers in a s [read more...]