Vol. 2 No 1 (2026): Journal of Ubiquitous Music

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.