I have the pleasure to welcome you to the second edition of the Music in the Global Village conference – a very unusual gathering focussing on the musical implications of Marshall Mc Luhan’s 1960’s statement about the global embrace. The emerging field of network music performance brings up various technical, artistic, ethical and philosophical issues which can’t be dealt with in the way of the typical paper session. On the contrary, this conference attempts to facilitate the intellectual discourse by breaking up the ritualized delivery of ideas and providing a framework in which nearly 30 of the finest representatives in the field will share their views, critically examine current practices and sketch out the next decades of network music performance.

We are very much looking forward to meet you in Budapest.

Georg Hajdu
Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg