I’ve just seen this in my youtube recommendations:
It’s a prototype made by this guy Vincent Cavez as a product of his PhD research. I thought it may be interesting to share it here.
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Impressive!
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…As long as the composers put the “constraints” (e.g. time sigs) back when they’ve finished! 
The handwriting recognition looks very impressive – though I still maintain that it’s quicker to press 4 and some pitches, rather than drawing filled-in circles, stems and double beams.
It will be interesting to see if he can find a market for it.
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True, the same way typing is faster than writing. But to me, handwriting and drawing with a pen are significantly better for brainstorming and problem solving compared to typing or drawing shapes and diagrams with a mouse. Some composers may feel the same about writing notation by hand.
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I find myself having difficulties to let go of the fact that ‘Euter’, in German, means ‘udder’.
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Same, just hesitated to write that myself.
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It does. I own StaffPad and it is also pretty impressive when you get the hang of it, but I can’t do anything more than sketch on an iPad. If one really wanted to make use of something like the above, you’d need a monitor at least the size that he has.
I guess the name comes from Ευτέρπη.
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That may well be, but it won’t change the increased amount of self control required from German users to work with it. Let’s just hope that (as the most recent Apple Pencil does have that) it doesn’t feature a squeeze function…
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My first car was a Chevy Nova. It didn’t do well in Spanish-speaking countries for obvious reasons…
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Just looked it up, that’s hilarious! I’m surprised none of their Spanish speaking resellers pointed that out (or maybe were listened to) before they even released it to that market…
That episode is one of the reasons we have the name Exxon - the company wanted a two-syllable name that meant nothing in any language, thus hoping to avoid controversy. Worked if you only count the name…
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Dorico 17!
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This also reminds me of my slight grudge I hold towards mathematicians, for them allowing a semantically unambiguous written speech symbol to be widely accepted in their own code for a neutral function. I am of course talking about their misuse of the exclamation mark for the factorial function, especially because there have been alternative symbols taken into consideration temporarily.
I mean, I do admire higher mathematics, in particular because their expansion of logical thinking paved the way for general relativity, which remains our most successful and consistent description of the workings of gravity to this day. But at the same time, mathematical formulas are still hard to read, and when I do, I do not want to feel tempted to suddenly shout one element out loud.
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I’m sorry, I should have elaborated… 
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That took a second, brilliant!
(For anyone curious: That would be Dorico 355 687 428 096 000.)
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I do like the look of this - after all what pen and paper composers are essentially looking for is a way of doing what they usually do, but it turns into readable notation at the end - it’s the dream whenever I feverishly try to find a decent manuscript app on the iPad with which to doodle. It just never is quite as satisfying as writing on paper, and I see the problems with this being multiple, not least getting a large enough tablet to make it worthwhile.
Side note anybody know which tablet he is using?
I would like to see what Stockhausen would have made of this type of technology.
(I am sure I am not alone in finding the music terribly distracting. There’s something about being deeply immersed in music analysis that makes me unable to turn off the music and concentrate on the dialogue. And that’s before we start to talk about the inhuman performance, which is neither intellectually engaging nor beautiful. I struggled to get through the video.)
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That is definitely a Microsoft Surface Pen but it’s hard to identify the exact model of screen. Probably a MS Surface Studio 2+ (now discontinued) which came with a 28" screen so that looks about right compared to the size of the person’s hand…