The growing need for innovative network-collaboration environments for live music performance has been a challenging field for a number of academic and research institutes throughout the world. Among them, the Department of Music Technology and Acoustics of the Technological Educational Institute (TEI) of Crete, in Greece has contributed to network music research through the development of the DIAMOUSES platform.

DIAMOUSES provides a generic platform that aims at encouraging diverse applications and services relating to networked music performance, such as:
• Distributed music rehearsals
• Live distributed music performances
• Network broadcasting of music events
• Remote music master classes
• Network cooperative music improvisations

Specific innovations of the platform include:

1. A scalable architecture supporting synchronous and asynchronous music collaboration among heterogeneous network infrastructures.

2. The support of novel forms of music expression such as electronic and electroacoustic music through sensor-based interaction.

3. The provision of a web portal that allows for registered musicians to schedule their network performances and exchange information through announcement boards, web forums and chat rooms, etc.

4. The exploitation of a DVB-T platform for live broadcasts and Video-On-Demand services about distributed music performances to a broad audience of digital TV subscribers.