SuperOM: A SuperCollider Class to Generate Music Scores in OpenMusic

This paper introduces OMClass, a class built for the software SuperCollider in order to create a bridge to OpenMusic and thus facilitate the creation of musical scores from SuperCollider patches. OMClass is primarily intended to be used as a tool for SuperCollider users who make use of assisted composition techniques and want the output of such processes to be captured through automatic notation transcription. This paper first presents an overview of existing transcription tools for SuperCollider, followed by a detailed description of OMClass and its implementation, as well as examples of how it can be used in practice. Finally, a case study in which the transcription tool was used as an assistive composition tool to generate the score of a sonification – which later was turned into a piano piece – is discussed.