Ubiquitous music. That's a formal phrase for a field of research. I had thought ubiquitous music was what we would have termed elevator music - we hear it in department and grocery stores - always present and widespread music from the past played in tedious arrangements.
Like most things now, it has its own novel version of the expression - Ubimus. Sound and music computing, human computer interfaces, creativity studies, music education and social and community underpinning.
That's the summary. Here is an explanation from WikiCFP (A Wiki for Calls for Papers):
Ubiquitous music (ubimus) seeks to address the intersection between current mobile, networked technologies, including embedded systems, vintage, modular and analogue hardware, internet of things (IoT) and emerging social, interactive and enactive perspectives on music making. Thus, ubimus research has applied a variety of theories and methods, including ecological, embodied, embedded and distributed models of cognition and creativity. In addition, ubimus practices involve participatory, accessible, inclusive and community-oriented approaches to design.
There are big words in long sentences with acronyms. The combination of the Internet of Things (IoT) with ubimus has been labelled IoMusT. One can carry out ubiquitous user modelling - that's UBIQUM.
I would have to look up all of these expressions to understand this paragraph:
"The ubimus imperative towards a holistic view of musical experience and technological design finds roots in concepts such as Varèse’s organised sound, Schafer’s soundscape, Feld’s acoustemology, Small’s musicking and Landy’s sound-based music, all of which provide framing whereby a variety of sonic-oriented practices are seen to converge."
Take Small's musicking: Christopher Small coined the term musicking, with which he wanted to highlight that music is a process (verb) and not an object (noun).
And Stephen Feld's Acoustemology: conjoins the words acoustic and epistemology to refer to a sonic way of knowing and being in the world.
All amazing.
I found this fellow in downtown St. Catharines a few years ago.
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