About the Journal
The Journal of Ubiquitous Music (j-ubimus) is oriented towards the advancement of knowledge on ubiquitous music practices and research. The periodical is hosted by the Arts Graduate Program of the Federal University of Espirito Santo. This editorial project is also linked to the Ubiquitous Music Symposium, from which selected articles may feature in expanded forms. Each volume of the j-ubimus is designed in such a way to accommodate a centrepiece article complemented by other articles which make reference and/or comment on the topics covered by it. All articles are put through a thorough peer review process.
The journal is published in an open-access format, indexed and aligned to the requirements of Scielo and similar open-science repositories. We aim for a multilingual journal with a single language per volume, with english-translated abstracts. The j-ubimus also proposes to support alternative presentation formats, reflecting not only the advances in the contents of ubimus research but also impacting the methods for delivery and presentation.
Current Issue
Journal of Ubiquitous Music - Volume II
Managing Editors: André Sonoda, Luzilei Aliel, Carlos Mario Gómez Mejía
Developmental Editor: Marcello Messina
Senior Advisors: Damián Keller, Leandro Costalonga
Ubiquitous music research stands at the crossroads of multiple forces that have shaped the ways of thinking, designing, and deploying technological resources for post2020 music-making. For us, the 2020 milestone is particularly significant because the period of the covid-19 pandemic highlighted the brittleness of the support infrastructure for musical interaction and the fragility of key 20th-century approaches to musical thought. The pandemic tsunami brought into focus the proposals laid out during the first wave of ubimus initiatives (2007-2014), suggesting that several of the emerging threads could be consolidated as sociotechnical frameworks. It is interesting to revisit some of the observations made by ubimus researchers in April 2020, when the lasting consequences of the pandemic period on artistic and educational practices were not as clear as today.
