As to the project you described, I am wholeheartedly behind you pursuing this! It would be a fabulous, game changing tool to improve the efficiency of our productions. Are you a software engineer by trade (with a musical background obviously) that would have a hand in the actual design of such a tool, or simply a musician serving as a consultant to the software people?
Well we will move the conversation to a more appropriate site to avoid off topic pollution, but I anticipate:
- Despite a solid Computer Science background coming from University and following working experiences, I'm not a software engineer, unfortunately. Otherwise probably I started and executed the project myself. I studied anyway the algorithmic logic behind and the investigation methods (e.g. expert system statistics, learning machine etc.) to build large databeses of articulations and expressive clichè. The work made by Robert Piéchaud for Finale is an example, but the work made by Wallander is a step forward: I did the same type of analysis with friends developers of pretty innovative Virtual Instruments, because they were managing automation of internal controllers to simulate and randomize specific articulations or articulations segments (e.g. attack, vibrato modulation, dynamic and tuning envelopes etc.) but we were checking manually short phrases, single samples etc. not entire pieces of music as modern system can now afford automatically.
- I'm graduated in Composition, choral music and conducting, and even if I don't mak a life out of music (I found too early a different job to make bigger money in different industry, and it was influencing my life and destiny) I have a large academic background and quite a bit of performance and conducting experience, (mostly in ancient music, but also folk, modern and pop) then yes I was consulting on the musical side some developers, beta testing and producing demos and experiments.
So keep in touch... 😊