MPEG SMR standard draft: MPEG2006/N8632, ISO/IEC FCD 14496-23:200x, Symbolic Music Representation, Pierfrancesco Bellini, Paolo Nesi, Maurizio Campanai, Giorgio Zoia

The i-Maestro project explores innovative solutions for technology-enhanced music education with a particular focus on bowed string instruments. Music performance is not simply to play the right note at the right time. Among the many challenging aspects of music education, we are particularly interested in linking music practice and theory training, looking at interactivity, expressivity and accessibility. Guided by an analysis of pedagogical needs, the project develops enabling technologies to support music performance and theory training, including tools based on augmented instruments, gesture analysis, audio analysis and processing, score following, symbolic music representation, cooperative support and exercise generation for tuition, selflearning, and collaborative work scenarios. i-Maestro offers a flexible, interactive multimedia framework and supporting tools which builds on recent innovations resulting from the development of computer and information technologies.