Welcome to the official home of MusicJOT
John Reed and Mark Dalrymple started writing a music notation app for iPad™ in 2012 that incorporated handwriting recognition. After five years of development, MusicJOT was released on Apple's App Store in January 2017. Apple has since highlighted it on four separate occasions on the App Store home page. Constantly updating with improvements and new features, MusicJOT is proving itself a major player in the field of mobile music notation for the professional and amateur musician.
"Being able to examine the world around us is paramount to our design. Every discipline in the arts affords us the opportunity to examine the world from a fresh perspective. That in turn opens up new doors to motivation, inspiration and mental growth. Those that forego the arts live half-lives at best."
- John Reed, 2007
John Reed
John Reed, a native New Yorker was trained from age 7 to 17 at The Juilliard School. He received his BFA from SUNY Purchase and studied at Yale. He has performed with Tony Bennett, Judy Collins, Peggy Lee, Smokey Robinson, Cyndi Lauper, *NSYNC, Dionne Warwick, Leon Redbone, Neil Sedaka, Britney Spears, Manhattan Transfer, Ben Vereen, DePeche Mode, and Paul Anka to name a few.
As principal arranger for Grammy nominated The Hampton [Rock] String Quartet [HSQ], he has written over 100 arrangements, which have been aired on TV and radio, performed by ballets, and published and sold throughout the world.
In 2000, along with his wife and partner, Janna Glasser, Esq., Reed started the sheet music publishing company, Mona Lisa Sound which now currently publishes over 400 titles and products. He also created the cover art for over 140 arrangements.
HSQ has been in the Top 15 Billboard Classical Crossover charts three times and is the largest selling string quartet in history (1 million+ CDs). They have been featured on The Today Show, CBS-TV News, Nightwatch, BBC-TV and radio including WNCN-FM, WNEW-FM, WABC, and the BBC. They have performed at Queen Elizabeth Hall (UK), Hong Kong, Town Hall (with Leon Redbone), Catch a Rising Star (with members of SNL), The United Nations, Carnegie Hall, Grand Ol’ Opry, Metropolitan Opera House, Madison Square Garden, Nat. Portrait Gallery, Radio City Music Hall, Las Vegas (various), and The Metropolitan and Philadelphia Mus. of Art and have opened for Stevie Wonder, Billy Joel, Neil Diamond, Robert Klein, David Spade, Jim Belushi and Glenn Frey of The Eagles and recorded with *NSYNC on a quintuple platinum single.
He is past president of the String Industry Council (SINC) and past board member of the American String Teachers Association (ASTA).
As a computer programmer from 1979, John teamed with Mark Dalrymple in 2012 to write music notation software that would recognize handwriting. MusicJOT was released in 2017 and has since gone through over 25 revisions, updating and adding new features.
Mark Dalrymple
Mark Dalrymple is a software developer and instructor, author of Advanced Mac OS X Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide, Mark has been programming since 1979, and professionally since 1990. He has had software running on Wall Street trading desks and in space (literally). NASA was running a trial program for an electronic help desk using Visix Galaxy™. Mark wrote some of that code. His code can also be found on millions of Mac desktops. He is a co-founder of CocoaHeads, an international Mac and iOS developers society, with chapters in 40 countries spanning six continents. Mark is also an accomplished trombone and bassoon player and plays with many groups.