Expected Impact
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Safeguarding Europe’s Musical Heritage
MusicSphere pioneers high-quality digitisation of traditional musical instruments – such as church organs and ancient musical instruments, like Hydraulis – capturing their physical, mechanical and acoustic properties in unprecedented detail. Digital Twins ensure long-term preservation, enable restoration efforts and contribute to the protection of modern, vulnerable artifacts from age decay and material fatigue.
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Empowering Cultural Heritage Professionals
Unlike traditional methods that record only static surfaces, MusicSphere develops technologies for digitising dynamic cultural assets with moving parts, airflow behaviour, and mechanical complexity. The project equips cultural heritage professionals with intuitive workflows, simulation tools, and DTs capabilities tailored to complex musical instruments’ structures, and it provides them a revolutionary way to “listen” to the music produced by these instruments.
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Reviving the sound of ancient music
MusicSphere brings the sound of the ancient past back to life by digitally reconstructing ancient and partly preserved musical instruments, like the ancient Hydraulis. Using fragments and historical records, AI and computational techniques, MusicSphere will enable the completion of missing parts, the development of DTs and the reproduction of musical qualities, allowing researchers, conservators and audiences to experience how these instruments once sounded. This innovative approach not only contributes to the preservation of artifacts of significant historical value, but also sheds light on forgotten musical traditions and on the evolution of musical technology.
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Revolutionising Audience Engagement through Immersive Experiences
Through XR experiences, immersive, multisensory environments and virtual instruments, MusicSphere transforms the way audiences experience cultural heritage. At least three institutions will launch new VR/AR experiences powered by MusicSphere, enabling the wide public to explore Europe’s rich musical heritage, strengthening a shared sense of identity.
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Enabling Proactive Heritage Protection with Advanced Monitoring and Data – driven Insights
MusicSphere introduces sensor-based monitoring and hierarchical risk-mapping tools for vulnerable instruments and heritage spaces. By integrating humidity, temperature, and material data into DTs, conservators, organ builders and cultural heritage professionals, can collaboratively detect signs of degradation and apply preventive conservation strategies, enhancing resilience against age decay, environmental disasters and climate change.
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Building capacity and skills in cultural heritage
MusicSphere provides cultural heritage professionals with comprehensive, high – quality training modules, guidelines and best-practices frameworks, including 14 cascade funding opportunities for testing and validating the MusicSphere solutions. More than 200 experts – conservators, curators, musicologists, organ builders, luthiers – will gain new skills in digital heritage.