Abstract
This article documents my challenges, successes, and what I learned while demonstrating what I describe as telematic musicing at six academic conferences in the U.S., Scotland, Finland, and Lithuania in 2024. Through personal narrative, autoethnography, and audience reactions, I share observations and conclusions I drew as a result of demoing telematic musicing to different audiences. I outline the technological and attitudinal challenges I encountered at the conferences and assess whether I was able to resolve them. I also discuss the need to strike and maintain a balance between hardware, software, and what Peter Neumann calls “peopleware.” Finally, I reflect on the sustainability and viability of fully online telematic musicing using commercial internet and my personal reasons for continuing to make music with others.
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).
Recommended Citation
Zlabinger, Tom. "Tripping the Telematic Fantastic: Adventures in Presenting Telematic Musicing at In-Person Conferences in 2024." Journal of Network Music and Arts 7, 1 (2025). https://commons.library.stonybrook.edu/jonma/vol7/iss1/7
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