Bringing music industry into the interactive multimedia age

The MUSICNETWORK has been funded by the European Commission to help bringing music into the interactive multimedia era. It represents a Centre/Network of Excellence where music content providers, cultural institutions, industry, and research institutions work together drawing on their collective assets and mutual interests, to exploit the potential of multimedia music content with new technologies, tools, products, formats and models. There is currently a large gap between the technology and content providers. Many products in the market fail to optimally exploit the potential of new multimedia technologies. MUSICNETWORK helps research solutions to reach the market by seeking agreements between different actors and formats, by bringing together research institutions, industries, small and medium enterprises (SMEs), and experts to build the required momentum to study and define multimedia music modeling and coding for the new age. MUSICNETWORK activities, actions and services are provided through the project Web site which can be found online at www.interactivemusicnetwork.org.