Music Hack Day
Music Hack Day is a regular gathering for music and tech people. During this event, programmers, designers, thinkers of all over the world meet up and try to create music related software or hardware hacks during a 24 hours coding marathon. The core team of MuseScore contributors, namely Werner Schweer, Thomas Bonte and Nicolas Froment are regular attendees of the Music Hack Days. They promote MuseScore and MuseScore.com, empower other coders to create something with one of the following resources:
- Being open source, the MuseScore software is highly applicable to hack with
- MuseScore plugin framework, which provide a simple API to some MuseScore features
- MuseScore.com API, which provide access to the scores available on MuseScore.com
Upcoming hackdays
Vienna 1st - 3rd February 2013
Attending: Thomas - Nicolas - Werner
Site: http://classicalmusichackday.org
Previous hackdays
Below is the list of Music Hack Days where MuseScore was represented, as well as the resulting hacks.
Cannes 26th - 27th January 2013
Attending: Nicolas
Site: http://cannes.musichackday.org/2013
- Tap Along: Mobile app which let you play a score by tapping the rhythm on the touch screen - Video1 - Video2
Barcelona 14th - 15th June 2012
Nicolas - Thomas - Kaspar - Quim Llimona & Sara Gozalo
- Teach me Nina - Music learning in Google Hangout with MuseScore sheet music
- Sing your melody: Write your scores in MuseScore by singing the pitches
- Scores4U: Multi platform application to search for music, lyrics and scores. Visor+editor for scores in HTML5
Blog post: Hello from Barcelona
Cannes 29th - 30th January 2012
Thomas - Mathieu Barthet
- Audience Score Following: score following for audiences using node.js - Video
- SonicMusic: Sonic Visualiser integrating MuseScore.com API
London 3rd - 4th December 2011
Thomas - Nicolas - Joachim Ganseman - Richard Lewis - Keith Moon - Andrew Robertson
- MuseScore MIDI follower: score following based on input of MIDI instrument
- OpenEMI app: MuseScore scores together with Bluenote songs nicely bundled in one iPad app
- PolyFailic TransCraption: failed attempt for polyphonic transcription
- MuseScore.com API experiments: Perl client for MuseScore API and MusicXML feature extraction.
Boston 5th - 6th November 2011
Thomas - Nicolas - Matthias Röder - Vladimir Viro - Hervé Bitteur
- MuseScore PDF Import with Audiveris
- ClipSwitch, videoscores switch board
- Music21, adding music21 magic sauce to MuseScore
Barcelona (Sonar) 16th - 17th June 2011
Thomas - Nicolas - Bram de Jong
- Score follower with SampleSumo
- Lyric search plugin for MuseScore using MusixMatch
Berlin 28th - 29th May 2011
- Annotating scores on MuseScore.com
- First steps of MuseScore Connect
San Francisco 7th - 8th May 2011
Thomas - Nicolas - Lucas Gonze - Pieter-Jan Vaernewijck
- Shape notes plugin with Lucas Gonze leads to the MuseScore shape notes plugin.
- MuseScore Sessions Online music lessons with video and sheet music using Tokbox Opentok API
- Android app collectionista
New York 12th - 13th February 2011
Thomas - Nicolas - Matt Prokup
- Score follower on matlab using chroma analysis with Matt Prokup
- Live Score annotator using Node.js, websocket
Cannes 23rd - 24th January 2011
- Sheet music sound cloud recorder, iPad app.
Barcelona 2nd - 3rd October 2010
Thomas - Nicolas - Joachim Ganseman
- Score follower based on pitch recognition in python with Joachim Ganseman
- MuseScore Singer using Canoris vocaloid API
London 4th - 5th September 2010
- Android OSC companion app for MuseScore
- Auto Score Tubing with MATCH VAMP plugin from QMUL
San Francisco 15th - 16th May 2010
Thomas - Nicolas - Joachim Ganseman
- MusicXML media mapping extension with Michael Good and Dan Grover
- RecordFinder for MuseScore
Amsterdam 24th - 25th April 2010
- Sound ScoreCloud leads to videoscores on MuseScore.com
Amsterdam 21st October 2009
- Soundcloud plugin for MuseScore, first submited app in the now huge SoundCloud app gallery