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Play with intonation and timbre!

We are building a game that trains your perception of subtle differences in pitch. No prior knowledge needed.

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The idea: expanding the perception of sound through play

for music professionals and amateurs, for children and adults

Music can be a key to perceiving the world with open ears. Werckmeister trains active listening: with the new approach of acoustic puzzle games, anyone can play with intonation and timbre, whether without prior knowledge or as a professional musician. Perceiving microtonality helps when making music yourself in real life, with language development and in listening to one another.

The project: a passionate author and a diverse team

of game developers, educators, musicians and many more

Martin Halter

Author of Werckmeister, co-owner of Raskin Apps, choral singer

“With Werckmeister, I want to make my passion for intonation and for precise listening accessible to everyone.”

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Mirjam Skal

Sound Design

Noe Mael Arnold

Game Design

Paul Phoenix

Coaching, ambassador

Prof. Burkhard Kinzler

Test group ear training

Christian Ledermann

Test group Konservatorium Winterthur

Barbara Bircher

Test group Sereal Bremgarten

Dr. Jyrki Alakuijala

Perception, psychoacoustics

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These schools and institutions support the project

with their expertise, with funding and as game testers

A bridge from theory to practice

The Werckmeister programme encourages and challenges active listening – our students can train their ears in a motivating way. It playfully fills a gap in music education, where ear training gets too little attention. Werckmeister bridges theory and practice, opening up space for inspiring encounters with sound beyond the simulation.

Beat Fehlmann

Test group young talents, ambassador

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Helping to develop an innovative learning game

Werckmeister was presented to me and I was able to test the prototype: the concept is brilliant! I hope to get many of our teachers excited about the programme, and I see it as a great opportunity to help develop this innovative learning game from the very start, with their personal listening experiences and the feedback from their students.

Christian Ledermann

Test group: children and young people in music education

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Playful exercises for beginners and professionals alike

Werckmeister shows impressively how a didactic concept can work both for beginners and for professional musical work. The playful exercises on timbre and vowel colours are very appealingly done. With ‘ensemble ipsa’, we will use the app to work on microtonality and intonation in pieces by Nicola Vicentino and in contemporary works. It is a meaningful tool for practice, and I am glad to help refine it.

Prof. Burkhard Kinzler

Test group ear training, music theory, composition

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Training your ear for a few minutes on the go

With Werckmeister you can simply train your ear for a few minutes on the go, and that helps enormously. No instrument, no singing out loud – just the headphones my students and musicians carry with them anyway.

Marco Amherd

Test group choir, ambassador

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Training the ear and perception

Existing music teaching materials touch on intonation, overtones and timbre only in passing. Werckmeister has a well-founded didactic approach, and I look forward to giving my students the link: ‘You can start this game to train your ear and your perception.’

Judith Flury

Test group teenagers: Kantonsschule Wohlen

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We are looking for

- Financial support to produce the app
- Foundations, organisations and public funding bodies in the fields of music, acoustics, perception, culture, children and young people, and music education
- Sponsorship, patrons and ambassadors
- Input on and validation of the concept and the prototype
  - A game designer with experience in haptics and educational game design
  - Publishers of sheet music that is well suited to demonstrating and learning intonation and to aesthetic education
  - University and school students to take part in workshops from time to time
  - Musicians interested in intonation and ear training
  - Someone from teaching for didactic validation (music practice, music theory, physics)
- Dissemination and distribution of the app
  - Institutions that promote learning music, especially in French-, Romansh- and Italian-speaking Switzerland
  - Members of ensembles who want to improve their intonation
  - Teachers who give the app to their students and expect them to listen more sensitively and critically
  - Schools, companies and associations in contact with music students

Feel free to get in touch with us: contact@werckmeister.app

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Play with intonation and timbre!

We are building a game that trains your perception of subtle differences in pitch. No prior knowledge needed.

The idea: expanding the perception of sound through play

for music professionals and amateurs, for children and adults

The project: a passionate author and a diverse team

of game developers, educators, musicians and many more

Martin Halter

Author of Werckmeister, co-owner of Raskin Apps, choral singer

These schools and institutions support the project

with their expertise, with funding and as game testers

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