!netmusucsb "Where Are We? Extended music practice on the internet".
Throughout the contexts, it was a good opportunity for me to understand the overall flow of network music. Meanwhile, it took more times and efforts than expected for me to comprehend the context since it was filled with a lot of musical concepts, terminologies, incidents, and important names. The procedure itself means a lot for me because, first of all, I enjoyed it and motivated.
Since I define myself as an engineer, I could not help to be attracted to the vision of the Artsmesh and the future of HNI. I do not think the future of the network music is only confined in front of the wired laptop. I believe the ultimate goal, which is actually my goal, of network music is ubiquitous music interaction that enables simultaneous musical interaction among people with musical inspiration. The network music will become eventually wireless. Of course, the system should satisfy establishing a shared perception of synchronization among the players. This may be problematic for the current wireless network, but the technical problem, such as the alignment of bandwidth and business models, will be solved eventually.
This situation reminds me of the case of machine learning. The concept of machine learning was derived in 1959, but the sensation of machine learning is actually caused by the development of GPU hardware in late 2000, which was highly affected by the game industry.
Likewise, we can assume the trend of network music will be drastically changed in the recent future according to the development of the network infrastructure. I do not know what will eventually accelerate the procedure. However, I believe we can try to raise public attention and creative fascination with musical interaction by producing meaningful musical results. Otherwise, we may have to wait until the porn market enables the network revolution.