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Announcing the Ooloi Newsletter

6/9/2025

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Ooloi is moving fast. Architectural decisions, implementation milestones, and the long road toward open-source release deserve a channel that isn’t buried in blog posts or scattered across updates.

The Ooloi Newsletter is that channel. It’s for composers frustrated with the lag of existing software, musicians curious about what modern architecture makes possible, educators and publishers planning future workflows, and developers who want to see Clojure’s STM, transducers, and gRPC applied directly to real musical problems.

This isn’t marketing. There’s nothing to hype, no metrics to chase. It’s progress – the daily work of turning musical thinking into software design. Updates arrive when there’s something real to report: once or twice weekly in active phases, slower during architectural deep work.

Expect honest accounts of what’s been built, what broke, and why decisions were made. Technical when it illuminates music, musical when it drives architecture. No jargon for its own sake, and no dumbing down.

If that sounds useful, subscribe at buttondown.com/ooloi.

The thread from FrankenScore to Ooloi continues. You’re welcome to follow it.

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Ooloi is a modern, open-source desktop music notation software designed to produce professional-quality engraved scores, with responsive performance even for the largest, most complex scores. The core functionality includes inputting music notation, formatting scores and their parts, and printing them. Additional features can be added as plugins, allowing for a modular and customizable user experience.

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