![]() Notation is the best way to communicate musical ideas in most cases, he maintains. “We are developing the technology and have many exciting ideas for future products,” Emtell says, adding that “the end result is not always notation.”Įmtell says that ScoreCleaner Notes is superior to using a voice memo recorder for short passages of music. Now they work there full time and their inventions are starting to take off. The sound analysis function was developed with Anders Friberg, a docent in the Department of Speech, Music and Hearing at KTH.Ī close-up of the ScoreCleaner Notes app display.Įmtell and Ahlbäck started their company, DoReMIR Music Research, in 2006. The way in which ScoreCleaner Notes listens to and understands musical structure is based on research into how people interpret music. “Musical notation is a universal language, so the market for this app is enormous,” he says. One of the best-selling apps in Sweden for the last several months, ScoreCleaner Notes has been adopted by professional musicians and by elementary school music programs, among other customers, Emtell says. "Musical notation is a universal language, so the market for this app is enormous.” Sven Emtell, researcher and co-founder of DoReMIR Music Research With the growing interest in online musical collaboration, such an app could do just that. ![]() “This app is revolutionary because it has the potential to unleash the creativity of musicians and music teachers worldwide. “We want to revolutionize the music industry,” Emtell says. The user can hum or sing the melody into their mobile’s microphone, and the app instantly displays the notation on the screen, with the right key, tempo and time signature. ![]() Users need not know how to read or write music, Emtell says. The ScoreCleaner Notes application listens to your melody, instantly writes it out in musical notation, and then makes it possible to share the written music via social media websites or email, says Sven Emtell, who started developing the background technology as part of his computer engineering master’s degree project at KTH with collaborator Sven Ahlbäck, who is now a professor at KMH Royal College of Music. ![]()
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