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Australian Angel Investment Backs the Future of Interactive Music Learning and Entertainment 1st May 2009 An Australian first co-investment deal between state-based Angel Investment groups Melbourne Angels, SA Angels Inc, and Gold Coast Angels have placed an investment into privately owned Adelaide based business StarPlayit Pty Ltd.. Read more>> |
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Australian Company Beats YouTube Online Symphony Goal by Four Years 4th December 2008 YouTube is touting that it will create the world's first ever collaborative online orchestra and summit, Australian company StarPlayit achieved this and more over 4 years ago.. Read more>> |
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StarProducer (early beta) 25th January 2008 Add your own audio or video as accompaniment. Read more>> |
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4th December 2008 - Australian Company Beats YouTube Online Symphony Goal by Four Years
In their press release of 2 December 2008, ‘YouTube Announces "YouTube Symphony Orchestra Program With London Symphony Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas, Tan Dun, Carnegie Hall, and Many Other Leading Institutions and Stars of the Classical Music World", Google’s online video sharing site claimed that it would achieve “the world's first collaborative online orchestra and summit” in April 2009.
Unfortunately for YouTube, Adelaide music technology company StarPlayit beat them to it by more than four years with its patent pending online music performance platform.
On the 18th of November, 2004, members of the Penang State Symphony Orchestra rehearsed with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra (ASO). What made this a world first is that Penang State Symphony members were in Georgetown, Penang and the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra in Adelaide, Australia. This was possible because the rehearsal was webcast using In the Chair, the original name for StarPlayit’s software.
In addition to being able to see and hear from their chosen seat in the ASO, live and in real time, Penang State Symphony members received real-time feedback on their performance via StarPlayit’s revolutionary music recognition system.
StarPlayit repeated its groundbreaking collaborative online orchestra feat on the 19th of August, 2006. Sibelius Software (now a part of Avid), Orchestras Australia and StarPlayit (then In the Chair) teamed up to present a live, interactive workshop with 3 conductors and a composer. Part of the 2006 National Orchestra Forum and titled The Big Play, a new orchestral work by award winning young Australian composer Katy Abbott was workshopped online via StarPlayit’s software platform.
The three-hour workshop included discussions between the composer, players and conductors as well as the ability to rehearse the work with multiple conductors. It concluded with a final performance of the entire piece with on-site and online participants.
“As I read YouTube’s press release I thought I was experiencing déjà vu,” said StarPlayit’s CEO David Evans, “I’m very surprised YouTube is claiming a world first. This is exactly what StarPlayit achieved years ago.”
StarPlayit’s no stranger to groundbreaking innovation. In May 2004, StarPlayit achieved another world first by successfully demonstrating real-time software chord recognition. The innovative ability to understand a chord, multiple notes strummed at a time, allows the software to listen to and recognise music played from instruments such as the guitar, and provide immediate feedback.
This will extend the company's market from orchestral instruments such as the flute, clarinet and saxophone, which play a single note at a time, to the most popular instrument in the world, the guitar.
Mr Evans said: “There are so many exciting opportunities created by the development of our chord recognition system. Imagine playing live in concert with your favourite band or learning a piece with your idol from the comfort of your lounge room. It’s like Guitar Hero but with real guitars and live in real-time!”
StarPlayit’s chord recognition technology has the potential to dominate the guitar-learning market with its advanced capability to provide guitarists with real-time (immediate) feedback, challenging guitarists to improve faster.
StarPlayit has recently developed extremely lightweight versions of its music recognition technology that can be applied on mobile platforms such as Apple’s iPhone. StarPlayit is currently negotiating the license of its technology for use in games and learning applications across mobile, personal computer and console platforms.
The company’s first product, StarPlay, developed in partnership with Sibelius (an Avid company), is targeted at band and orchestra students. StarPlay is available right now for free download from http://www.starplaymusic.com/download.php.
Unfortunately for YouTube, Adelaide music technology company StarPlayit beat them to it by more than four years with its patent pending online music performance platform.
On the 18th of November, 2004, members of the Penang State Symphony Orchestra rehearsed with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra (ASO). What made this a world first is that Penang State Symphony members were in Georgetown, Penang and the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra in Adelaide, Australia. This was possible because the rehearsal was webcast using In the Chair, the original name for StarPlayit’s software.
In addition to being able to see and hear from their chosen seat in the ASO, live and in real time, Penang State Symphony members received real-time feedback on their performance via StarPlayit’s revolutionary music recognition system.
StarPlayit repeated its groundbreaking collaborative online orchestra feat on the 19th of August, 2006. Sibelius Software (now a part of Avid), Orchestras Australia and StarPlayit (then In the Chair) teamed up to present a live, interactive workshop with 3 conductors and a composer. Part of the 2006 National Orchestra Forum and titled The Big Play, a new orchestral work by award winning young Australian composer Katy Abbott was workshopped online via StarPlayit’s software platform.
The three-hour workshop included discussions between the composer, players and conductors as well as the ability to rehearse the work with multiple conductors. It concluded with a final performance of the entire piece with on-site and online participants.
“As I read YouTube’s press release I thought I was experiencing déjà vu,” said StarPlayit’s CEO David Evans, “I’m very surprised YouTube is claiming a world first. This is exactly what StarPlayit achieved years ago.”
StarPlayit’s no stranger to groundbreaking innovation. In May 2004, StarPlayit achieved another world first by successfully demonstrating real-time software chord recognition. The innovative ability to understand a chord, multiple notes strummed at a time, allows the software to listen to and recognise music played from instruments such as the guitar, and provide immediate feedback.
This will extend the company's market from orchestral instruments such as the flute, clarinet and saxophone, which play a single note at a time, to the most popular instrument in the world, the guitar.
Mr Evans said: “There are so many exciting opportunities created by the development of our chord recognition system. Imagine playing live in concert with your favourite band or learning a piece with your idol from the comfort of your lounge room. It’s like Guitar Hero but with real guitars and live in real-time!”
StarPlayit’s chord recognition technology has the potential to dominate the guitar-learning market with its advanced capability to provide guitarists with real-time (immediate) feedback, challenging guitarists to improve faster.
StarPlayit has recently developed extremely lightweight versions of its music recognition technology that can be applied on mobile platforms such as Apple’s iPhone. StarPlayit is currently negotiating the license of its technology for use in games and learning applications across mobile, personal computer and console platforms.
The company’s first product, StarPlay, developed in partnership with Sibelius (an Avid company), is targeted at band and orchestra students. StarPlay is available right now for free download from http://www.starplaymusic.com/download.php.
