Friedemann Sallis is Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Music Department at the University of Calgary, Canada.

Valentina Bertolani is currently pursuing a PhD in musicology at the University of Calgary, Canada.

Jan Burle is a scientist at Jülich Centre for Neutron Science, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Outstation at MLZ in Garching, Germany.

Laura Zattra is a research fellow at Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM) in Paris, France.

Introduction

Friedemann Sallis, Valentina Bertolani, Jan Burle and Laura Zattra

Part I: Composition

1. Dwelling in a field of sonic relationships: 'instrument' and 'listening' in an ecosystemic view of live electronics performance

Agostino Di Scipio

2. (The) speaking of characters, musically speaking

Chris Chafe

3. Collaborating on composition: the role of the musical assistant at IRCAM, CCRMA and CSC

Laura Zattra

Part II: Performance

4. Alvise Vidolin interviewed by Laura Zattra: the role of the computer music designers in composition and performance

Laura Zattra

5. Instrumentalists on solo works with live electronics: towards a contemporary form of chamber music?

François-Xavier Féron and Guillaume Boutard

6. Approaches to notation in music for piano and live electronics: the performer's perspective

Xenia Pestova

7. Encounterpoint: the ungainly instrument as co-performer

John Granzow

8. Robotic musicianship in live improvisation involving humans and machines

George Tzanetakis

Part III: Study

9. Authorship and performance tradition in the age of technology: (with examples from the performance history of works by Luigi Nono, Luciano Berio and Karlheinz Stockhausen)

Angela Ida De Benedictis

10. (Absent) authors, texts and technologies: ethnographic pathways and compositional practices

Nicola Scaldaferri

11. Computer-supported analysis of religious chant

Dániel Péter Biró and George Tzanetakis

12. Fixing the fu