Abstract
This review summarises the 10th International Conference on Technologies for Music Notation and Representation (TENOR 2025), hosted by the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. The programme comprised six paper sessions, two concerts, and three workshops, addressing digital scores, AI-assisted composition, human-machine collaboration, interactive systems, and real-time/generative practices. The keynote by Craig Vear situated DigiScore (ERC, 2021-2026) within an expanded notion of digital musicking and articulated the PACMMAN framework as a methodological lens for analysing how digital scores mediate agency, collaboration, and meaning-making across contexts. The proceedings reveal two overarching research trajectories: notation as representation, focusing on digital scores as mediating structures embedded in cultural/aesthetic practices and multimodal interfaces; and notation as computation, treating notation as a formal, computable structure that supports modelling, inference, and algorithmic generation (including ML-driven approaches). Concert programmes and hands-on workshops further demonstrated the field's current emphasis on cross-cultural instrumentation, networked performance settings, and practice-oriented methodological development, highlighting a broader shift from notation as a static artefact to notation as an active mechanism shaping contemporary musical thinking and practice.
Key words
TENOR 2025 /
digital score /
music representation /
AI & human-machine collaboration /
interactive & real-time generative systems
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