Digital Orchestra Erasmus Project

Project Title

Digital Orchestra

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Creativity and culture; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

Our strategic partnership entitled „Digital Orchestra” was created by four organizations from three different countries – Poland, Estonia and Italy. Three of our organizations are musical universities and the fourth one is an association.

We want to create open-source educational resources which will be used during Orchestral Studies in the educational process of instrumental musicians. We plan to prepare a common list of fragments of musical pieces on which both the educational process and the future recruitment to orchestra spots are based. Pieces form this list we will than record using a virtual orchestra and on that canvas we will generate various versions in which parts of certain instruments will be muted. This way for example, a violinist preparing his part will be able to stop doubling recordings of the piece but rather download a fitting version of the piece from the on-line website and play his own part with the generated file in which only the part of the violin is muted.

We believe that this new model for individual practice will greatly increase the effectiveness of the orchestral studies courses, which will allow to go through more material (more various pieces of music). Our tool will also be a valuable resource while looking for employment. It will allow for an increase in the percentage of success of students and graduates who used the tool during studies in recruitment processes for spots in orchestras and philharmonics.

Due to the fact that both the material and the methodology of teaching orchestral studies in musical universities across Europe is very similar, we see enormous potential for implementing our tool in a wide range of institutions. That is why we found the form of the strategic partnership so appealing.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 138966 Eur

Project Coordinator

Stowarzyszenie “Passionfruits” & Country: PL

Project Partners

• Eesti Muusika- ja Teatriakadeemia
• Uniwersytet Muzyczny Fryderyka Chopina
• Conservatorio di Musica di Lecce – Tito Schipa