The main aim of the project is to study how we learn music performance from a pedagogical and scientific perspective and to create new assistive, multimodal, interactive, and social-aware systems complementary to traditional teaching. Our project aims to investigate and explore all the relevant aspects in order to produce methods and tools for music education with innovative pedagogical paradigms, taking into account key factors such as expressivity, interactivity, gesture control, and cooperative work among participants.

The general objectives of the project are: (1) to design and implement new multi-modal interaction paradigms for music learning and training based on state-of-the-art audio processing, music analysis and pattern recognition techniques, (2) to evaluate from a pedagogical point of view the effectiveness of such new paradigms, (3) based on the evaluation results, to develop new multimodal interactive music learning prototypes for student-teacher, student only, and collaborative learning scenarios, and (4) to create a publicly available reference database of music recordings with multimodal information for cooperative learning. The results of the project will serve as a basis for the development of next generation music learning systems, thereby improving on current student-teacher interaction, student-only practice, and furthermore providing the potential to make music education accessible to a substantially wider public.