01/05/2024
ODRADEK turns 12 today! At Odradek, Labor Day was the day we opened our doors to the world: so a day of celebration, but not exactly a day off! This morning, Enrique and I had the pleasure of speaking to a young and highly talented composer about releasing an album of his symphonic music next year. Helping to keep music alive and vibrant is why we do what we do.
Here is a brief recap of what the little Odradek has accomplished in its twelfth year:
- 22 new albums were published, and many new friends made
- The Spheres has a new classical engineer who joins Fabio: welcome Flavia!
- Neumz now has 38.000 users and around 10000 hours of chants from two monasteries.
- Vistco continues to produce many of the stunning visuals you see with Warner Classics, among others
- Micpedia is already one of the most respected online sources for information on mics
- We launched a new research and development company in Spain named Selsyn in collaboration with the University of Jaén
- We launched a new platform for transcribing Gregorian manuscripts with the ancient neumes called scrib.io/
- My Neumz colleauges at Assoc. Musicologie Médiévale completed the digitisation of the Solesmes archive
- And most of all, the Odradek family has been busy with the European project Repertorium:
Repertorium is a consortium of 7 universities and other partners, but in which we play a big part. It is about to make a very big impact on musicology and the future enjoyment of music by professional musicians, students, and music lovers alike. We are building AI tools for manuscript digitisation, score and audio information processing, automatic minus-one for home study, and interactive immersive streaming for entertainment. It’s a project that has synthesised and extended all that Odradek does, from musicology to recording to tech development to music marketing. And it’s the first step towards an AI with general applicability for classical music, but with potential much beyond.
Odradek aims to be at the forefront of music technology and add value to every level of the musical ecosystem, always on the side of the artist. We hope to help shape the future of artificial intelligence to be beneficial to the things that make us most human: our art, music, and heritage. Hopefully, it will also permit Odradek to start ever more projects with young composers like this morning and, like the figure in Kafka’s story, outlive the father for generations to come.
In the meantime, we labor on!
