Interconnected Musical Networks: Toward a Theoretical Framework

23 This article attempts to define and classify the aesthetic and technical principles of interconnected musical networks. It presents an historical overview of technological innovations that were instrumental for the development of the field and discusses a number of paradigmatic musical networks that are based on these technologies. A classification of online and local-area musical networks then leads to an attempt to define a taxonomical and theoretical framework for musical interconnectivity, addressing goals and motivations, social organizations and perspectives, network architectures and topologies, and musical content and control. The article concludes with a number of design suggestions for the development of effective interconnected musical networks.

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