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AC/E digital culture ANNUAL REPORT 2014SIDNEY OPERA HOUSEComplutense in Madrid, directed by Baltasar Fernández-Manjón, titular professor of Software Artificial Intelligence Engineering. The game can be downloaded from the Web site for Windows, Mac and Android. The results of the pilot scheme in schools will be published shortly.Sydney Opera Househttp://www.sydneyoperahouse.com/education.aspxThis institution has all its educational material structured on the main Web site. It is easy to find if you are a primary or secondary student or a teacher. The itinerary makes it easy to choose performances, most of them designed for these age groups, the purchase of tickets and group management.New Music NowA project being carried out by a company in Pamplona to enable musicians to take a technological leap forward in their daily work by discarding paper scores. The company’s strategy supposes that musicians take this step forward with all the elements with which they work at the same time. To that end three products are offered: Software. On one hand, an application for the organisation of scores and users and on the other hand, an application for fieldwork by the musicians in the group or by teachers and students at an educational facility.AC/E Music stand. As well as holding the tablet it interacts with the software by means of pedals and it incorporates other useful functions (batteries, loud speakers, sensors, etc.). Web portal. A place for the acquisition and exchange of scores and arrangements in digital format.The project is currently at the development stage. Product launch and sales are planned to begin during the first half of 2014.RESOURCESFOR THE DISABLEDTeatro Accesible (Accessible Theatre)A programme sponsored by the Vodafone Foundation to make performances available to people with disabilities: http:// www.teatrosaccesibles.com/es. The most outstanding applications:AUDIO DESCRIPTION. By means of individual audio receivers people with impaired vision can listen to a description of a play’s relevant visual content.MAGNETIC INDUCTION LOOP. Users with auditory prostheses (hearing aids or cochlear implants) can hear the sound of a theatrical work clearly using an individual loop system.AMPLIFIED SOUND. Users with impaired hearing, or who simply want to hear what is happening better, can do so using headphones.An example of the Teatro Accesible programme was the International Classical Theatre Festival of Almagro. For the 2013 Festival, people with either impaired hearing and/or vision were able to enjoy seven accessible theatrical productions corresponding to four works on the official programme which were enabled with subtitling and audio description services.FOCUS 2014: THE USE OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN THE PERFORMING ARTS3.2 THE GENERATION OF ACCESSIBLE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES IN PERFORMING ARTS CENTRES CURRENT PAGE...159