The main goal of IMUTUS is to provide an interactive music tuition multimedia system for training users on traditional instruments with no MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) output. The selected instrument is the recorder. The system is based on audio / optical recognition, multimedia, virtual reality and audio-to-MIDI transformation technologies.

Through an innovative user interface for music tuition the student is able to practice on his own, and have electronic guidance, whenever he requires it, through Internet communicating with a teacher group, mandated with the responsibility to either provide feedback to the student or participate in a distance learning modality. The trial courses are organised considering several pedagogical aspects.

The IMUTUS project was funded by The European Commission under the Information Society Technologies (IST) framework. The project started on May 2002 and officially ended on February 2005.

Even though IMUTUS has officially ended at the end of February, the IMUTUS consortium continues to actively disseminate and promote the project results.