| Summary: | The rapid development of networking technologies has allowed composers to explore new ways of directly engaging participants in the exploration of musical environments and realization of new forms of musical expression. Several distinctive approaches to the musical application of networks will be outlined, each of which is mediated and conditioned by the technical and aesthetic foundations of the network technologies themselves. Recent work in the field by artists such as Atau Tanaka and Metraform will be examined in this context, as will some of the pioneering work in the genre by Max Neuhaus. While recognizing the historical context of collaborative work, the author will examine how the strategies employed in the work of these artists have helped redefine a new aesthetics of engagement in which play, spatial and temporal dislocation are amongst the genre's defining characteristics.
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