Gregory Maxwell wrote:
As far as the conversion of notation into sound, thats
what the MPEG4
structured audio group has tackled. Uses what is effectively midi for
its score. It's totally useless unless you're in to the
electroacoustic music scene.
That's not actually the MPEG group I'm thinking of. The one I had in
mind is the Ad Hoc Group on Symbolic Music Representation, which is
attempting to come up with a consensus symbolic-representation format.
Some of their publications discuss in some more detail why this is a
difficult problem, and why existing systems do not solve it:
http://www.interactivemusicnetwork.org/mpeg-ahg/
-Mark