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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Proprietary OMR Is Still Maturing
- eNote's OCR runs on proprietary servers and remains partly closed while they finish training symbol classes.
- Boian expects full editable exports and user uploads in two to five years once training completes.
Publishers Remain Curators, Not Obsolete
- eNote collaborates with publishers, libraries, and archives instead of replacing publishers.
- Boian positions publishers as curators of talent while eNote handles distribution and access.
Pay Composers For Practice Time
- Implement a time-based, user-level usage model to fairly distribute revenue to rights owners.
- Count seconds spent practicing a score so composers earn from practice as well as performances.