Posted: Thursday 25 February 2010
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STOP PRESS... literally the last few days to order a facsimile of the Eton Choirbook and/or the Dow Partbooks from DIAMM (Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music, Oxford) at what are - relatively - very reasonable pre-publication prices!
http://www.diamm.ac.uk/publications.html I'm pleased to record that one facsimile of the Eton Choirbook has been ordered for the TONUS PEREGRINUS library, and will be on display the next time we sing the programme *The Eton Choirbook - standing at the crossroads of the Renaissance*. ----------------------------------------------------------------- *Hyperion Records & musicDNA* Leading independent classical label opens its data to musicDNA SEMANTICALLY STICKY Hyperion Records is the first classical label to open up its data to musicDNA. The Hyperion catalogue is a very valuable source of information about music - thousands and thousands of musicians, pieces of music, and recordings. musicDNA is about sharing expert musical knowledge, about joining up musical data so that people and computers are both speaking the same language. That means, instead of googling for ambiguous phrases, and navigating around flat wiki-pages, we'll be able to have a meaningful conversation. You, me, and the rest of the internet. Hyperion recognizes the true value potential in making their data "semantically sticky" so that we'll all be able to talk about it - when the full musicDNA service is launched later this year. Director of Hyperion, Simon Perry, said: "The classical community finally has a real music information source that operates outside the pop-driven data parameters imposed by almost all other online systems." musicDNA's John Drinkwater said: "Hyperion's data is authoritative, detailed, and ideal as a foundation for our shared knowledge of music in the classical sphere." READ MY PSI musicDNA is made up of an index of musical subjects each with a published subject identifier (PSI) - composers, works, bands, albums, gigs, listeners - and an ontology or map of the relationships between them. It means that when you talk about George Gershwin on your blog or listen to George Gershwin on your iPad, you'll be able to let musicDNA know you're talking about the same George Gershwin as in Hyperion's wide-ranging catalogue - and you'll be able to join up details of your music-making directly with that of your influences and musical heroes. If you're a musician, that means you'll be giving people lots of new access points to your music. If you're a music-lover, you'll be discovering more about what you already like as well as music that's new to you. If you're an organization like Hyperion, you'll be establishing a keystone position in the evolving digital eco-system. That's what Web 3.0 is all about. And musicDNA is ready for it. Are you? (our pre-launch seed community currently numbers almost 500) *musicDNA ready for Web 3.0* WHO DID WHAT WHERE WHEN? Web 3.0 is about computers talking our language - about knowing what we're talking about, and what we're trying to say. musicDNA is ready for this online paradigm shift because its index of musical subjects - e.g. composers, works, bands, albums, gigs, listeners - uses persistent subject identifiers, and because it captures the relationships between those subjects within an ontology - a conceptual reference model - that is flexible, robust, and most significantly, maps to the way we think. A FRAMEWORK FOR OUR SHARED MUSICAL KNOWLEDGE musicDNA is the name for both an ontology and a number of user interface concepts which together provide a dynamic navigation architecture for the mapping of the musical universe. musicDNA captures the essential structure of musical events and resources in terms of human activity, thereby enabling visualization of and navigation through this powerfully rich semantic space for use in many kinds of commercial, educational, and community-based environments. musicDNA opens up a new way of creating social objects from music, musicians, and music-making, mapping the journey of a piece of music across four stages from inspiration via notation and interpretation to appreciation, and enabling the tracking of musical influences across time. musicDNA is provided by joint partners Pensive SA and CTU, and is implemented using the Topic Maps data model; musicDNA is collaborating closely with MusBook. The musicDNA project and ontology have been presented repeatedly in the international research community since 2008, and have a long history dating back via the RAMline prototype at the Royal Academy of Music to a seminal BBC programme at the turn of the Millennium; the current commercial phase was publicly announced by Pensive in early 2009. musicDNA LTD is a UK-registered company (No. 07166041).
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Posted: Wednesday 3 February 2010
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download full Hyperion Records & musicDNA press release Hyperion Records is the first classical label to open up its data to musicDNA. The Hyperion catalogue is a very valuable source of information about music – thousands and thousands of musicians, pieces of music, and recordings. musicDNA is about sharing expert musical knowledge, about joining up musical data so that people and computers are both speaking the same language. That means, instead of googling for ambiguous phrases, and navigating around flat wiki-pages, we’ll be able to have a meaningful conversation. You, me, and the rest of the internet. Hyperion recognizes the true value potential in making their data “semantically sticky” so that we’ll all be able to talk about it – when the full musicDNA service is launched later this year. Read my psi musicDNA is made up of an index of musical subjects each with a published subject identifier (PSI) – composers, works, bands, albums, gigs, listeners – and an ontology* or map of the relationships between them. It means that when you talk about George Gershwin on your blog or listen to George Gershwin on your iPad, you’ll be able to let musicDNA know you’re talking about the same George Gershwin as in Hyperion’s wide-ranging catalogue – and you’ll be able to join up details of your music-making directly with that of your influences and musical heroes. If you’re a musician, that means you’ll be giving people lots of new access points to your music. If you’re a music-lover, you’ll be discovering more about what you already like as well as music that’s new to you. If you’re an organization like Hyperion, you’ll be establishing a keystone position in the evolving digital eco-system. That’s what Web 3.0 is all about. And musicDNA is ready for it. Are you? Director of Hyperion, Simon Perry, said: “The classical community finally has a real music information source that operates outside the pop-driven data parameters imposed by almost all other online systems.” musicDNA’s John Drinkwater said: “Hyperion’s data is authoritative, detailed, and ideal as a foundation for our shared knowledge of music in the classical sphere.” Sign up now – and get your friends and fans on board at: www.musicdna.info/signup.aspx. Notes to Editors who does what where when Hyperion Records – “Britain’s brightest record label” – is an independent British classical label which was founded in 1980 and is devoted to presenting high-quality recordings of music of all styles and from all periods from the twelfth century to the twenty-first. Hyperion’s pioneering music-download site is at: http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk. musicDNATM is provided by joint partners Pensive SA and CTU, and is implemented using the Topic Maps data model. The musicDNA project and ontology have been presented in the international research community since 2008, and have a long history dating back to a BBC programme in 1999/2000. The musicDNA website is at: http://www.musicdna.info/. *ontology – a Web 3.0 buzzword: http://www.wiziq.com/tutorial/86-Moving-from-WEB2-0-to-WEB-3-0 contact details please see press release pdf for contact details
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Posted: Tuesday 2 February 2010
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download full Hyperion Records & musicDNA press release
Hyperion Records & musicDNA Leading independent classical label opens its data to musicDNA Semantically sticky Hyperion Records is the first classical label to open up its data to musicDNATM. The Hyperion catalogue is a very valuable source of information about music – thousands and thousands of musicians, pieces of music, and recordings. musicDNA is about sharing expert musical knowledge, about joining up musical data so that people and computers are both speaking the same language. That means, instead of googling for ambiguous phrases, and navigating around flat wiki-pages, we’ll be able to have a meaningful conversation. You, me, and the rest of the internet. Hyperion recognizes the true value potential in making their data “semantically sticky” so that we’ll all be able to talk about it – when the full musicDNA service is launched later this year. Read my psi musicDNATM is made up of an index of musical subjects each with a published subject identifier (PSI) – composers, works, bands, albums, gigs, listeners – and an ontology* or map of the relationships between them. It means that when you talk about George Gershwin on your blog or listen to George Gershwin on your iPad, you’ll be able to letmusicDNA know you’re talking about the same George Gershwin as in Hyperion’s wide-ranging catalogue – and you’ll be able to join up details of your music-making directly with that of your influences and musical heroes. If you’re a musician, that means you’ll be giving people lots of new access points to your music. If you’re a music-lover, you’ll be discovering more about what you already like as well as music that’s new to you. If you’re an organization likeHyperion, you’ll be establishing a keystone position in the evolving digital eco-system. That’s what Web 3.0 is all about. And musicDNA is ready for it. Are you? Director of Hyperion, Simon Perry, said: “The classical community finally has a real music information source that operates outside the pop-driven data parameters imposed by almost all other online systems.”
musicDNA’s John Drinkwater said: “Hyperion’s data is authoritative, detailed, and ideal as a foundation for our shared knowledge of music in the classical sphere.”
Sign up now – and get your friends and fans on board at: www.musicdna.info/signup.aspx. Notes to Editors who does what where when Hyperion Records – “Britain’s brightest record label” – is an independent British classical label which was founded in 1980 and is devoted to presenting high-quality recordings of music of all styles and from all periods from the twelfth century to the twenty-first. Hyperion’s pioneering music-download site is at: http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk. musicDNATM is provided by joint partners Pensive SA and CTU, and is implemented using the Topic Maps data model. The musicDNA project and ontology have been presented in the international research community since 2008, and have a long history dating back to a BBC programme in 1999/2000. The musicDNA website is at: http://www.musicdna.info/. *ontology – a Web 3.0 buzzword: http://www.wiziq.com/tutorial/86-Moving-from-WEB2-0-to-WEB-3-0
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Posted: Monday 1 February 2010
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Read full press release here Who did what where when?Web 3.0 is about computers talking our language – about knowing what we’re talking about, and what we’re trying to say. musicDNA is ready for this online paradigm shift because its index of musical subjects – composers, works, bands, albums, gigs, listeners – uses persistent subject identifiers, and because it captures the relationships between those subjects within an ontology – a conceptual reference model – that is flexible, robust, and most significantly, maps to the way we think. A framework for our shared musical knowledgemusicDNA is the name for both an ontology and a number of user interface concepts which together provide a dynamic navigation architecture for the mapping of the musical universe. musicDNA captures the essential structure of musical events and resources in terms of human activity, thereby enabling visualization of, and navigation through, this powerfully rich semantic space, for use in many kinds of commercial, educational, and community-based environments. musicDNA opens up a new way of creating social objects from music, musicians, and music-making, mapping the journey of a piece of music across four stages from inspiration via notation and interpretation to appreciation, and enabling the tracking of musical influences across time. musicDNA is provided by joint partners Pensive SA and CTU, and is implemented using the Topic Maps data model. The musicDNA project and ontology have been presented repeatedly in the international research community since 2008, and have a long history dating back to a BBC programme at the turn of the Millennium; the current phase was publicly announced by Pensive in early 2009. “musicDNA accelerates the trend towards users having greater management of social objects in digital space” said Peter Brown, Managing Director of Pensive. Antony Pitts of CTU said, “musicDNA is about describing the musical universe in such a way that both people and computers can connect up the information we have with actual musical resources: recordings, sheet music, comment and recommendation” You here nowThe iPhone / iPod touch app musicGPS is in the iTunes store and already enables users to geotag their listening history and navigate via an interactive timeline. Allowing users to join up their data to the musicDNA index will unlock any number of potential contextual links within a personalized interface.
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Posted: Thursday 28 January 2010
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Posted: Wednesday 27 January 2010
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copy of press release as pdf including contact details PRESS RELEASE for immediate release: 25-01-2010 musicDNATM ready for Web 3.0 Who did what where when? Web 3.0 is about computers talking our language – about knowing what we’re talking about, and what we’re trying to say. musicDNATM is ready for this online paradigm shift because its index of musical subjects – e.g. composers, works, bands, albums, gigs, listeners – uses persistent subject identifiers, and because it captures the relationships between those subjects within an ontology – a conceptual reference model – that is flexible, robust, and most significantly, maps to the way we think. A framework for our shared musical knowledge musicDNATM is the name for both an ontology and a number of user interface concepts which together provide a dynamic navigation architecture for the mapping of the musical universe. musicDNATM captures the essential structure of musical events and resources in terms of human activity, thereby enabling visualization of and navigation through this powerfully rich semantic space for use in many kinds of commercial, educational, and community-based environments. musicDNATM opens up a new way of creating social objects from music, musicians, and music-making, mapping the journey of a piece of music across four stages from inspiration via notation and interpretation to appreciation, and enabling the tracking of musical influences across time. musicDNATM is provided by joint partners Pensive SA and CTU, and is implemented using the Topic Maps data model. The musicDNATM project and ontology have been presented repeatedly in the international research community since 2008, and have a long history dating back to a BBC programme at the turn of the Millennium; the current phase was publicly announced by Pensive in early 2009. Managing Director of Pensive, Peter Brown, said: “musicDNA accelerates the trend towards users having greater management of social objects in digital space” Antony Pitts of CTU said: “musicDNA is about describing the musical universe in such a way that both people and computers can connect up the information we have with actual musical resources: recordings, sheet music, comment & recommendation” You here now The iPhone / iPod touch app musicGPSTM is in the iTunes store and already enables users to geotag their listening history and navigate via an interactive timeline. Allowing users to join up their data to the musicDNATM index will unlock any number of potential contextual links within a personalized interface. Notes to Editors background info musicDNA website: http://www.musicdna.info/ musicGPS in the App Store: http://itunes.com/apps/musicGPS Web 3.0: http://networkedplanet.com/Global/White%20Papers/Web%203%20Introduction%20and%20Vision.pdf Pensive & musicDNA: http://www.pensive.eu/0455.asp (05/2009) Rewriting Musical History research timeline: http://cd.tp/musicDNA.html available images musicDNA: http://www.flickr.com/photos/46925176@N04/sets/72157623281138706/ musicGPS: http://www.musicdna.info/images/musicGPS_topgraphic.jpg
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Posted: Monday 25 January 2010
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Read full press release here musicDNATM ready for Web 3.0 Who did what where when? Web 3.0 is about computers talking our language – about knowing what we’re talking about, and what we’re trying to say. musicDNATM is ready for this online paradigm shift because its index of musical subjects – e.g. composers, works, bands, albums, gigs, listeners – uses persistent subject identifiers, and because it captures the relationships between those subjects within an ontology – a conceptual reference model – that is flexible, robust, and most significantly, maps to the way we think. A framework for our shared musical knowledge musicDNATM is the name for both an ontology and a number of user interface concepts which together provide a dynamic navigation architecture for the mapping of the musical universe. musicDNATM captures the essential structure of musical events and resources in terms of human activity, thereby enabling visualization of and navigation through this powerfully rich semantic space for use in many kinds of commercial, educational, and community-based environments. musicDNATM opens up a new way of creating social objects from music, musicians, and music-making, mapping the journey of a piece of music across four stages from inspiration via notation and interpretation to appreciation, and enabling the tracking of musical influences across time. musicDNATM is provided by joint partners Pensive SA and CTU, and is implemented using the Topic Maps data model. The musicDNATM project and ontology have been presented repeatedly in the international research community since 2008, and have a long history dating back to a BBC programme at the turn of the Millennium; the current phase was publicly announced by Pensive in early 2009. Managing Director of Pensive, Peter Brown, said: “musicDNA accelerates the trend towards users having greater management of social objects in digital space” Antony Pitts of CTU said: “musicDNA is about describing the musical universe in such a way that both people and computers can connect up the information we have with actual musical resources: recordings, sheet music, comment & recommendation” You here now The iPhone / iPod touch app musicGPSTM is in the iTunes store and already enables users to geotag their listening history and navigate via an interactive timeline. Allowing users to join up their data to the musicDNATM index will unlock any number of potential contextual links within a personalized interface. Notes to Editors background info musicDNA website: http://www.musicdna.info/ musicGPS in the App Store: http://itunes.com/apps/musicGPS Web 3.0: http://networkedplanet.com/Global/White%20Papers/Web%203%20Introduction%20and%20Vision.pdf Pensive & musicDNA: http://www.pensive.eu/0455.asp (05/2009) Rewriting Musical History research timeline: http://cd.tp/musicDNA.html available images musicDNA: http://www.flickr.com/photos/46925176@N04/sets/72157623281138706/ musicGPS: http://www.musicdna.info/images/musicGPS_topgraphic.jpg
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Posted: Monday 18 January 2010
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 Great news - a facsimile of the Eton Choirbook is being published http://www.diamm.ac.uk/publications.html with (relatively) very reasonable pre-publication prices! http://www.diamm.ac.uk/redist/pdf/Eton.pdf
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Posted: Thursday 14 January 2010
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 Gramophone Editor's Choice: Don't talk - just listen! (SIGCD174)music by Robert Saxton, Antony Pitts, Gabriel Jackson, and Christopher Fox
"This disc of world première recordings represents nearly 10 years of commissions by vocal ensemble The Clerks... Written by some of the UK's leading composers, this disc demonstrates the versatility of the group - the compositions themselves are drawn from sources both ancient and modern, from 12th-Century organum to 21st-Century subway adverts!" (Gramophone, January 2010)
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This month TONUS PEREGRINUS head North with a musical Winter Warmer... -----------------------------------------------------------------
TUESDAY 19 JANUARY 7.30pm *A Winter Warmer*
Holy Trinity Church, High Street, Skipton, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
TONUS PEREGRINUS at Skipton Music A Winter Warmer: music to warm the coldest heart A cappella octet Tonus Peregrinus serves up a concoction of English choral sounds to warm the heart and revive the senses: beautiful early English music by John Dunstaple, John Sheppard, Orlando Gibbons, and Thomas Tomkins - spiced (or perhaps laced) with new motets by the ensemble's director Antony Pitts, and a seasonably late carol-lullaby by Adrian Jack which lends this programme its name.
Pitts: O Holy of Holies - interleaved with
Sheppard: Reges Tharsis
Dunstaple: Kyrie
Dunstaple: Gloria a 4
Tomkins: Almighty God, the Fountain of all Wisdom
Pitts: Missa Unitatis / Credo
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Pitts: Sanctus and Benedictus
Gibbons: Hymnes & Songs of the Church (Songs 22, 47, 46, 34, 9, 13, 14)
Adrian Jack: A Winter Warmer
Pitts: Rejoice!
Dunstaple: Veni Sancte Spiritus Veni Creator
Dunstaple: Agnus Dei
Pitts: Set me as a seal
TONUS PEREGRINUS
Joanna Forbes - soprano
Rebecca Hickey - soprano
Kathryn Knight - alto
Martha McLorinan - alto Richard Eteson - tenor
Matthew Long - tenor
Francis Brett - bass
Nick Flower - bass
Antony Pitts - director AND IF YOU'RE STILL SNOWED IN... How about taking a look at this fun introduction to topic maps - Topic Map Martian Notation:
Thank you for listening,
Antony Pitts
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Posted: Saturday 2 January 2010
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