Ubiquitous music practice has expanded from a core set of research groups, mostly based in Brazil, to a highly diverse and globally distributed intercontinental community, with a recent development being the addition of practitioners and musicians from Asia and Africa. For this year’s symposium, we were particularly happy to be able to invite our keynote Wanjiru Ngure, alias [M] [Monrhea], to present a public lecture and workshop on her approach to live music coding, informed by her work as a performer and producer, and also as a workshop leader, within the Nairobi music scene.

The geographical diversity noted above is mirrored in the range of aesthetic and conceptual approaches featured within our community. It is precisely due to this richness in cultural and epistemic approaches that we were particularly happy to welcome this 2023 edition of our Symposium to Derry (also known as Londonderry), a border city marked by unique geographies and histories of resistance, activism and coexistence; a city that encourages us to say that ubimus is also about self-determination, pluralism, and — something we cannot refrain from wishing for in the conflict-ridden days of late 2023 — meaningful communication and coexistence, i.e. global peace!