Master's Thesis

Legato: an Online Platform for Virtual Collaboration of Amateur Classical Musicians

Jiyoung Lee

Legato is a digital service platform to enhance the collaboration process for musicians in an orchestra context. The advent of new digital technologies, our daily lifestyle is with the digital environment. The present era of Covid-19 in the world is accelerating this digital transformation, and new experiences are emerging. Especially, the pandemic has attacked to the classical music industry, which has focused on the offline experience.

The project scope is mainly focusing on classical musicians who collaborate for musical performance in the digital native. In the classical music field, three factors are creating music, which is a relationship between the audience, composer, and musician. In particular, it is aimed at amateur musicians such as people who take music as a hobby or young students who have little practical experience.

This project proposes an online platform for the digital transformation of existing offline classical collaboration processes. The online platform aimed to allow musicians to share before and after their careers in music collaboration. Legato collects, analyzes, and reflects data on musicians’ practice in online music collaborations. Moreover, Legato provides various classical music content and shares the overall music process at musicians’ convenience. Additionally, Legato examines gaps and maneuvers, both online and offline music practice, to improve performers’ experiences.