Releasing the music in your head

From the very fertile minds that gave you “Guitar Hero”, comes Hyperscore, a musical composition software program that uses a friendly interface to score music. What is lovely about this program is that it is accessible to everyone, kids and adults, musicians and nonmusicians. Once the graphical interface has been rendered in colours and shapes and so on, it can then be instantly transformed into a musical score with notes.

 

In this wonderful TED video, Tod Machover (of MIT’s Media Lab) introducesDan Ellsey, “a young man with cerebral palsy who has found his voice through music created and performed using Media Lab technologies. Ellsey plays his “My Eagle Song” in a soaring rendition that underscores music’s power to heal, to communicate, and to inspire.”