Music Hack Day

Updated 2 years ago

Music Hack Day is a regular gathering for music and tech enthusiasts. During this event, programmers, designers, thinkers from all over the world meet up and try to create music-related software or hardware hacks during a 24-hour 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, and 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

All upcoming hackdays listed at http://musichackday.org

Previous hackdays

Below is the list of Music Hack Days where MuseScore was represented, as well as the resulting hacks.

Motion Browser Laser Scoring: Export your score to mp4, html5 and a laser cutter.

London 7 - 8 December 2013

http://london.musichackday.org/2013
Attending: Thomas - Nicolas - ChenLung - Manuel Bärenz

MuseScore Collab: edit a score from several computers at the same time - video

Bologna 5 - 6 October 2013

http://bologna.musichackday.org/index.php?page=Main+page
Attending: Miwarre - Thomas - Nicolas - Werner

Munich 27 - 28 July 2013

http://hackday.peachnote.com/
Attending: Thomas Bonte - Paul Sebastien - Florian Weiss - Nicolas (remote)

Steinway Radio Sessions: Scores from MuseScore.com streamed to a Steinway piano over MIDI

Denver 20 - 21 July 2013

http://denver.musichackday.org/index.php?page=Main+page
Attending: Marc Sabatella

Accessible Music Notation: Open up the world of notated music to blind musicians. (video)

Barcelona 13 - 14 June 2013

Attending: Thomas - Nicolas - Werner - Paul Sebastien

Sheet music sharing on Facebook: share scores by posting a MuseScore.com link on Facebook - video
MuseScore Browser MIDI player: Practise sheet music directly in a modern browser with a sheet music player with ability to change tempo and mute any staff
iScoreCase: 3d-print a customized iPhone 4 case with your favorite music score - video

Vienna 1st - 3rd February 2013

Attending: Thomas - Nicolas - Werner
Site: http://classicalmusichackday.org

Audiveris as a Service
MuseScore as a Service

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.