Intangible Treasures - Capturing the Intangible Cultural Heritage and Learning the Rare Know-How of Living Human Treasures

Abstract

i-Treasures project, included into EU FP7, aims at building a public and expandable platform to enable learning and transmission of rare know-how of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) in order to prevent them from extinction.I-Treasure aims to provide a tool that will allow their transmission to new people. The proposed platform combines lots of different technologies like multisensory technology, singing voice synthesis and sensorimotor learning to leave the beaten path in education and ICH knowledge transmission. In i-Treasures project, there are four main ICH cases: rare traditional songs; rare dance interactions; traditional craftsmanship focusing on the art of pottery making, and finally contemporary music composition based on Beethoven, Haydn and Mozart musical pieces.