A Systemic Approach to Music Performance Learning with Multimodal Technology Support

The use of technology-enhanced learning in education is mostly seen as support for conveying and testing clearly defined knowledge and skills. In music performance education, the goal of the education is more personal and dynamically determined in the pedagogic and aesthetic interaction between the teacher and student. The approach taken in the i-Maestro project is therefore to support the teaching process by adding interaction forms and feedback loops that create new dynamics in the learning process. For music performance on string instruments, we use multimodal feedback with 3D motion tracking and sensor input to give students and teachers new forms of feedback and to make available aspects of performance that are hard to access by direct perception alone. We give examples how the integration these tools into the interaction and feedback loops of traditional music education can help to address problems like the gap between music theory and practice teaching.