I am happy to host the second Music in the Global Village Conference. Building on the success of the first edition, this year’s conference continues the debate around creativity in network music, but in a modified form. The final discussion of the 2007 conference proved to be such a positive experience for all of us, that it has directly informed the structure, organization and hopefully the athmosphere of the present conference, for which we propose much more open structure facilitating participation and dialogue. I would like to add my welcome to those of Jason and Georg, and I look forward to your stimulating contributions to the pioneering fields of the theory and practice of networked music performance.

Andrea Szigetvári
Hungarian Computer Music Foundation