MIDI Distance Learning MIDI stands for Musical Instrument Digital Interface. In simple terms, it is a language which translates music into computer talk and vice versa. In the fall of 1994, the Vermont legislature gave funds for 13 teachers to foster music composition in their classrooms. When they are ready, students send their compositions online to other schools and to Vermont composers for comments. The type of reflection and critique that occurs in the MIDI Project is similar to that of the Visual Arts Study Group.
Students make music and then ask for specific comments about what others hear in their work.
They take suggestions for improvement when desired. The students who send compositions define the type of feedback they would like to receive. The following is an example of a group composition by three third graders at Founders Memorial School and the response given to them by a Vermont composer. J.J.M., you have shown an ability to start with an idea and play with it. You take a short phrase and mirror it.