Ubiquitous music : concepts and metaphors
Luciano Vargas Flores, Marcelo Soares Pimenta, Ariadna Capasso, Patricia Tinajero, Damián Keller · Lume (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul) · 2009
Ubiquitous Music is a new area of research that encompasses ubiquitous computing, mobile and networked music, eco-composition and cooperative composition.This article examines both the metaphors for interaction and the musical activities that can be supported by ubiquitous music systems.Music making is characterized as an activity involving pragmatic-epistemic actions constrained by natural and social affordances.Music composition -a predominantly epistemic activity -results from the interactions between the musician's personal environment and the ecological niche where the activity takes place.Thus, the interaction metaphors encompass agents, tools, environment, and activities, providing a conceptual and methodological framework for musical and computational developments in ubiquitous music research.An example of a ubiquitous music work is included: Green Canopy, On the Road.