A Lecture by Golo Föllmer

The contribution reports about a long-term research on networked music practices (Föllmer 2004a & 2005a). Analyses of around 70 examples resulted in the identification of twelve types of net music, grouped into five clusters. A historical overview proposes a phase model in which the focus has shifted from an extreme focus on technical, social and aesthetic issues of online communication to practices that use networked systems as one of a larger number of tools, means or subjects. A deductive and a inductive paradigm of musical practice are described, and, concluding, the findings are connected to recent theories on the characteristics of web 2.0, social software and the structuring of groups.

A new folk music? Modelling networked music practices. Paper by Golo Föllmer