technologies

esearch and development – 2016
ANTESCOFO
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Design and Development: Musical Representations and its
MuTant Project Team
Antescofo is a modular score following system as well as
a synchronous programming language for musical composition.
The module allows for automatic recognition of the
player’s position and tempo in a musical score from a realtime
audio stream coming from a performer, thus making it
possible to synchronize an instrumental performance with
computer generated sounds. Antescofo brings together the
description of instrumental and electronic parts of a work
in a single score via a synchronous language designed for
mixed music, with the goal of increasing the expressivity of
the process of writing in real-time in a format adapted for
the musical language. After changing the score, Antescofo
is able to follow the position and tempo of the musicians in
real-time and synchronizes the programmed actions for the
computer-music portion of the score (setting off and controlling
the electronic parts). Antescofo uses a polyphonic audio
stream as input.
Applications
Interactive musical works, automatic accompaniment,
musical education
Main Features
• Recognition in real-time of the position and tempo of the
polyphonic audio stream in a score
• Writing the electronic components of a score in relative,
absolute, and rational time
• Interactive sequencing and display via the NoteAbility Pro
environment
• MIDI or MusicXML scores can be loaded with NoteAbility
Pro
Platform
Antescofo is a library of objects for Max (IRCAM/Cycling’74)
that can be used with Mac OSX or Windows XP. Antescofo is
also available as a PureData object for Max OSX, Windows,
and Linux.
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