How political are collections and archives? And what does critical science on this topic look like? The exhibition “The Power in / of Collections” delves into these inquiries. The initiative involves scholars from the Technical University, Humboldt University, the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, and the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford.

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 o…[Read more]

The concept of lite coding is proposed as a place-holder for a growing body of practices within ubimus. We present the Erlang Music Generation Library 1.0 (emugel), a prototype for casual musicking that features a simplified notation to represent pitch, durations, dynamics and timbre with an emphasis on handling event patterns. We describe the…[Read more]