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Speculative ubimus design: Probing the potential for expansion of second-wave ubiquitous music frameworks

Damián Keller1,2* ,  Ivan Simurra1,2 ,  Luzilei Aliel2 ,  Rongge Zheng3
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1 Federal University of Acre, Brazil
2 Amazon Center for Music Research (NAP), Rio Branco, Brazil
3 Maynooth University, Ireland
AC 2023, 1(2), 1597 https://doi.org/10.36922/ac.1597
Submitted: 15 August 2023 | Accepted: 7 October 2023 | Published: 9 November 2023
© 2023 by the Author(s). This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution -Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0) ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ )
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Abstract

This contribution engages with the relationships between field deployments and conceptual underpinnings of ubiquitous music (ubimus) research, to establish a dialog with speculative design. Three cases serve as triggers for a conceptual exercise that points to common threads among ubimus endeavors within three active areas of second-wave ubimus investigations: Emugel, a tool for lite-coding; Ouija, an ecomprovisational artwork; and InMesh, a multimodal installation inspired in the cultural frictions of current Amazonian reality. Lite coding is proposed as a sonic-oriented practice that incorporates simplified semantic strategies to foster knowledge sharing in iterative individual and group-based creative activities. Ouija is an ecomprovisational artwork deployable on the musical internet that highlights the dynamic relationships between fixed and volatile resources in music making. The processes leading to the realization of InMesh furnish an opportunity to probe the limits of repurposed telematic tools for sharing implicit knowledge and hint at potential limitations of multimodal artistic frameworks.

Keywords
Second-wave ubiquitous music
Speculative design
Post-2020 music-making
Funding
Brazilian Council for the Development of Science and Technology
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