The Digital Score: a review of research spanning 2022-23

This paper presents a brief overview of DigiScore research activities in the first 18 months of the project. Digiscore is an ERC-funded project studying the technological transformation of the music score through technology. The paper is basically split into three sections each dealing with a major research theme. The first section presents design considerations for digital scores that have emerged out of the case studies, including findings from TENOR 2022, Marseilles, and others projects that incorporated technologies such as Unity gaming engines, machine learning, robotics and EEG readers. The second section focuses on two case studies looking at the impact of this research upon inclusive and accessible music-making through digital scores. Specifically Digital Syzygies – a digital score as a shared creative platform for d/Deaf and autistic musicians, and Jess+ – an AI/Robot Digital Score that operates as a creative interface between an ensemble of musicians of mixed abilities. The final section reports on the provisional insights from a digital musicianship investigation that seeks new knowledge in the skills, perceptions, contexts, cultures, awareness and knowledges of digital musicians engaging with digital scores.