Yuya Kikukawa

Gocen: a handwritten notational interface for musical performance and learning music

Not only in childhood but also adulthood, we need some trainings to read music scores, which sometimes make music hard to learn and enjoy. In this article, we shall propose the system that enables users to play their handwritten musical notations by our musical interface.

Musical Interaction Design for Real-Time Score Recognition towards Applications for Musical Learning and Interactive Art

Not only in childhood but also adulthood, we need some training to read music scores, which sometimes make music hard to learn and enjoy. In this article, we shall propose the system that enables users to play their handwritten musical notations by our musical interface. Since 1960s, Optical Music Recognition (OMR) has become mature in the field of printed score. In recent, some products were released on market that uses OMR for music composition and playing. However, few research on handwritten notations have been done, as well as an interactive system for OMR. We combined notating with performing in order to make the music more intuitive for users and give aid for learning music. Furthermore, we applied our technique to an interactive work, which is kind of vision based record disc.