The soundscape composition, as pioneered at Simon Fraser University since the early
1970s, has evolved rapidly to explore a full range of approaches from the 'found …

Instrumentally oriented and individualistic approaches dominate the current perspectives on
musical interaction and technologically oriented composition. A view that focuses on the …

The concept of everyday musical creativity is related to non-professional musical activities
carried out in venues not intended for artistic practice. Everyday musical creativity demands …

This paper explores participatory and socially engaged practices in ubiquitous music
(ubimus). We discuss recent advances that target timbre as their focus while incorporating …

The author discusses the conceptual basis of an ecological approach to music composition,
considering the epistemological and compositional concepts involved. The author's text-and …

Current musical practices point to convergent research trends that bring together eco-
composition, cooperative composition, mobile music and networked music. We present …

Audio signal classification (ASC) consists of extracting relevant features from a sound, and
of using these features to identify into which of a set of classes the sound is most likely to fit …

Prevalent music techniques are not well suited to music making in ubiquitous contexts. How
are musicians and system designers supposed to find their way through the myriad of …

This paper has two main objectives:(i) to discuss essential concepts of the ecological
approach to composition, proposing the term eco-composition as a common reference for …

Makis Solomos explores the ecologies of music and sound, inspired by Felix Guattari, for
whom environmental destruction caused by capitalism goes hand in hand with deteriorating …