Martin Dawe is the mastermind behind PhotoScore and AudioScore, the music scanning and audio transcription software used by thousands of Sibelius users around the world. His latest product is called Hit’N’Mix, and it’s designed to break down audio into its component parts so that it can be played with, manipulated and recombined. This past weekend, […]
February 2011
Behind Bars author interviewed on BBC Radio 3 tomorrow
Elaine Gould, the author of Behind Bars, a new reference text on music notation, will be interviewed, together with Professor of Composition and Composer in Residence at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Julian Anderson, as part of the programme Music Matters on BBC Radio 3 tomorrow, Saturday 19 February, at 12.15pm. Readers in […]
Oscar-nominated movies scored in Sibelius
In the entertainment business of movies, music and TV, the first couple of months of each year are dominated by glitzy awards ceremonies. As the company behind the industry-standard tools for audio production, video editing and music notation, Avid always gets to bask in the reflected glory of plenty of winners at each of the […]
Braille music becomes more accessible, with a little help from Sibelius
Today’s Guardian newspaper in the UK carries a story about the remarkable work of Lydia Machell of Prima Vista Braille Music Services. I’ve posted before about the quest that has consumed Lydia personally and professionally for the past several years, and now a couple of years on her work is approaching a critical mass, with […]
Sci-fi author Alan Dean Foster “would like to take a year off to master Sibelius”
“Speculative fiction” blog SF Signal recently interviewed New York Times bestselling author Alan Dean Foster (pictured right), author of more than 110 science fiction books. His most recent book is Predators I Have Known, an autobiography. One interesting snippet in the interview is as follows: CT: Do you plan on writing more nonfiction in the […]
Montana student wins state-wide songwriting competition for Special Olympics
The Clark Fork Chronicle, a community newspaper in Missoula County, Montana, USA, this week has a story about local student Morissa Trunzo (pictured right), who has won a state-wide songwriting competition run by Project UNIFY, a student advocacy program run by the Special Olympics organisation: The song-writing contest was conceived as a way of encouraging […]
Read five pages from Hal Leonard’s new Sibelius book
Last month I posted an interview with Tom Rudolph and Vince Leonard, the authors of the second edition of Hal Leonard’s book, Sibelius: A comprehensive guide to Sibelius music notation software. Hal Leonard have posted the first five pages of one chapter from the book as a preview. Called Music Education Applications, the chapter details […]
Sibelius helps The High Street Broadcast hit the airwaves
“Think of it as writing a one hour musical in a month while working a regular 40-hour-per-week job!” That’s how pianist, composer and arranger Brent Bain describes writing songs and incidental music for The High Street Broadcast, an old-style radio variety show that airs new programs bi-monthly on KSAV internet radio. Devlin Connors, a singer, […]