Distributed collective practices in collaborative music performance

  • Authors:
  • Demosthenes Akoumianakis;George Vellis;Ioannis Milolidakis;Dimitrios Kotsalis;Chrisoula Alexandraki

  • Affiliations:
  • Technological Education Institution of Crete, Heraklion, Crete, Greece;Technological Education Institution of Crete, Heraklion, Crete, Greece;Technological Education Institution of Crete, Heraklion, Crete, Greece;Technological Education Institution of Crete, Heraklion, Crete, Greece;Technological Education Institution of Crete -- Rethymnon Branch, Crete, Greece

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Digital Interactive Media in Entertainment and Arts
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

The paper reports on the design of a prototype system to facilitate intertwining of on-line and off-line practices during collaborative networked music master classes. Our approach links with recent theoretical thinking inspired from the concept of communities of practice and aims to devise a system to provide a virtual 'place' for engaging in the practice the community is about. This implies a focus not only on community management (i.e., discovering, building, maintaining community) but also on constructing and reconstructing practice using a suitable interactive practice vocabulary. We demonstrate the challenges involved in building domain-specific, practice-oriented interactive vocabularies for collaborative music lessons and report on our recent experiences on the interplay between on-line and off-line practice.