Selling Sheet Music [REBROADCAST] AI and the End of Physical Sheet Music: Enote CEO Boian Videnoff
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Oct 22, 2025 
Boian Videnoff is the co-CEO and co-founder of Enote, a Berlin-based startup revolutionizing sheet music with AI. He discusses the vision of digitizing scores and the app's advanced features that surpass PDFs. Videnoff explains how eNote recognizes notation complexities and helps musicians with editable exports. He shares insights on cultural shifts needed for acceptance of digital scores, plans to support living composers, and the importance of engaging younger musicians through gamified education. The conversation also touches on the future of AI in music composition and its impact on jobs.
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Digital Scores Can Replace Paper
- eNote aims to replace paper by making scores interactive, searchable, and editable in real time.
- Boian believes digital features can solve many paper limitations and improve musicians' workflow.
Accuracy Unlocks Musical Features
- eNote's core advantage is highly accurate optical music recognition enabling deep score features.
- Boian cites ~99.96% printed-symbol accuracy as what unlocks navigation, repeats, and measure linking.
Assign AI To Recognition Tasks
- Use AI only for tasks that require recognizing notation and musical structure, not for UI placement.
- Let AI handle symbol detection, repeats, and measure counting while designers handle UX details.