MOODS project consists in realizing a distributed system of lecterns/editors for music by starting from stand-alone editors/lecterns for music.

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A MOODS system consists in an integrated system of computer-based lecterns/stands which can be used for both editing and visualizing music in cooperative manner. The distributed system of lecterns is an innovative idea for automating and managing the large information used by  (i) orchestras during rehearsals and public performance of concerts, operas, ballets, etc. (ii) students of music during lessons in conservatories and schools of music, (iii) publishers during massive editing of music.

The targeted end-users are theaters, itinerant orchestras, groups of musicians, schools of music, television network orchestras, and publishers of scores.

Main objectives and results of MOODS project are:

• the adoption of HPCN technology for drastically reducing the time needed for modifying main scores and parts during rehearsals of concerts, ballets and operas; at least a 20% of reduction of costs for preparing performances for orchestras, theaters, schools of music has been estimated;
• the introduction of HPCN technology in a new environment;
• the deployment of HPCN technology for creating of a new product and for opening a new market for many products (lectern systems for orchestras, lecterns for pianists, lecterns for small group of musicians, etc.), using electronic versions of scores already available in the archives of publishers, on the basis of already present stand-alone editors/lecterns for music scores;
• the dissemination of results at European level.

• managing (saving and reloading) the instrumental and personal symbols on main score and parts; Thus saving artistic details never save up to now;
• managing (saving and reloading) the exact tempo in which each measure of the score has been executed;
• avoiding, by automating all mechanisms, the turning of pages during rehearsals and final performances;
• visualizing in few minutes any score on the lecterns of musicians, fast changing of music piece of reference point, or arrangement;
• manipulating in real-time main score in parts as a whole music score, thus presenting the final version of the score in short time to musicians;

Please visit our related projects:

• O3MR (Object Oriented Optical Music Recognition), a project concerned with building an optical music recognition system for converting paper versions of music scores in a suitable format for music editors. O3MR is based on the adoption of the neural network for low-level recognition of symbols, while at high-level the constructs of music notation are recognized by using the object-oriented model of music discussed in this paper. The activity on music at the Department of Systems and Informatics is partially supported by Hewlett Packard Italy.
• IMEASY: Integrated Multiprocessor Expandable Audio Spatialization sYstem. IMEASY is an activity within the TETRApc TTN HPCN ESPRIT n.28472. It focuses on an audio and sound processing and spatialization system based on a highly interconnected network of digital signal processors, intended for applications in the fields of entertainment and professional music; the device will be completely reconfigurable and will allow the advanced control of a multi-channel sound system to create and handle spatialization effects applied to external signals.

The targeted end-users are professionals involved in audio and multimedia installations, post-production services, and more generally in the field of entertainment activities, including game parks, theater and outdoor events.
The goal is to provide an interactive system to allow spatial effects in real-time; this is mandatory for live events, theater applications, interactive museum shows, entertainment parks, as the exact timing and temporal evolution of spatial effects may be dependent on external events and for this reason unpredictable in advance. The spatial effects cannot be preencoded or prerecorded and are required to be created in real-time.