This Book derives from research on musical practices mediated by computernetworks conducted from 2001 to 2005 in the Music Technology Group of thePompeu Fabra U... » 

This Book derives from research on musical practices mediated by computernetworks conducted from 2001 to 2005 in the Music Technology Group of thePompeu Fabra University in Barcelona Spain. It departs from work carried outover the last decades in the field of ComputerSupported Cooperative Workwhich provides us with collaborative communication mechanisms that can beregarded from a music perspective in diverse scenarios CompositionPerformance Improvisation Interpretation or Education. The Book presents anextensive survey and systematic classification of ComputerSupportedCooperative Work for Music Applications. This survey led to the identificationof innovative approaches models and applications with special emphasis on theshared nature of geographically displaced communication over the Internet. Thenotion of a Shared Sonic Environments was introduced and implemented in aproofofconcept application entitled Public Sound Objects PSOs. This workalso introduces innovative methods reduce the disrupting effect of networklatency in musical communication over long distance networks. «