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by stevetjoa 3609 days ago
In the spirit of releasing things before they're ready...

I've been working on Violin.io (https://violin.io) since 2015. It's eventually intended to be interactive sheet music in the browser synced with YouTube recordings of classical music through the use of music information retrieval (MIR) algorithms. For example, click on the score at measure 50, and you'll get a YouTube video at measure 50, and you can change among different performances of that work at measure 50.

To view my rejected application for the inaugural Classical Goes Tech pitch competition last November, see https://stevetjoa.com/classicalgoestech/.

There remains technical challenges, so for now you won't find much yet other than well-tagged and categorized videos of classical works without sheet music. But I'm actively working on it.

You can help. If you frequently listen to or perform classical music, contact me at steve at violin io. I would like to know what specific works interest you. Currently, I'd prefer to focus on strings or piano, and Bach/Mozart/Beethoven/Brahms, and preferably chamber. But I'm open to all suggestions. (I think there's merit to pleasing a narrow audience very well, and with classical music variety being enormous, it can get out of hand quickly.)