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Ubiquitous music: Culturally grounded approaches to interaction and creativity

Damián Keller1* ,  Victor Lazzarini2* ,  PerMagnus Lindborg3*
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1 Amazon Center for Music Research (NAP), Federal University of Acre, Rio Branco, Acre , Brazil
2 Department of Music, Maynooth University, Maynooth, Co. Kildare , Ireland
3 SoundLab, School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong SAR, Hong Kong , China
AC 2026, 4(3), 025470095 https://doi.org/10.36922/AC025470095
Received: 20 November 2025 | Published online: 12 June 2026
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Ubimus Cross-Cultural Approaches to Interaction and Creativity )
© 2026 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 the license) ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ )
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