The subject of his thesis was to try to create a model for how much we understand a musical structure as human beings and which cognitive abilities all human beings share. As a practicing musician and professional interpreter of music he became obsessed with organizing these thoughts and eventually the obsession grew into his doctoral thesis project. At the time his day job combined teaching at The Royal College of Music in Stockholm with touring, giving concerts, composing and arranging music. Emtell developed the app as part of his computer engineering master’s degree project at KTH with collaborator Sven Ahlbäck, who is now a professor at Stockholm Music University.īefore I tell you about the App, I need to tell you the background story, a story that starts almost ten years ago with Sven Ahlbäck, one of Sweden’s most prominent folk musicians. 'The ScoreCleaner Notes application listens to your melody, instantly writes it out in musical notation, and then makes it possible to share the written music via social media websites or email,' says Sven Emtell. The App makes it possible for anyone with a mobile phone to score any melody instantly and share it. But recently a new App released by a researcher from KTH Royal Institute of Technology managed to do this.

Every now and again I stumble upon a new App that impresses me, I admit that lately this has become much harder to do.

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