Interaction, Experience and the Future of Music

摘要: Digital personal music systems today offer conveniences where listeners can carry their whole collections with them at all times. However this has come a price the richness of musical experience is compromised, leaving only remnants living, vibrating, dynamic past. Music always pushed envelope what defines interaction. The described here create deep human interaction facilitated by live dynamics deployed on networks, sensors, and portable digital technologies. This chapter introduces vision for evolving definitions encouraging return to it as living form cultural expression. challenge put forth how goal be attained future end-user systems. arrival new infrastructures rendering distribution potential change modes appreciation. Social already evolved advent decentralized, peer-to-peer argument that application social computing coupled artistic creativity combine point out ways in which technological evolution assimilated directly production, ultimately leading possible forms content. problem broached two parts. First, I present projects from fields sound media arts examples assimilation these concepts contemporary practice. In particular, notion idiomatic writing, borrowed instrumental compositional technique, used describe innate capabilities interactive Second, retrace notions interaction, agency, theoretical underpinnings guiding conception works. call upon theory situate within wider societal historical context.