VEMUS - Feedback and Groupware Technologies for Music Instrument Learning

Vemus is a european research project that aims at developing and validating an open music tuition framework for popular wind instruments such as the flute, the saxophone, the clarinet and the recorder. The system will address students of beginning to intermediate level. It proposes an innovative approach both at technological and pedagogical levels. This paper presents the project with a specific focus on the feedback technologies developed to extend the instrumental and pedagogic practices.

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