Ubimus seeks to address the intersection between mobile networked technologies, embedded systems, modular hardware, internet of things (IoT), and emerging social, interactive and enactive perspectives on music-making. Thus, ubimus research has applied a variety of models, including ecological/embodied cognition, and accessible and participatory design. Its holistic view of music also finds parallels in Varèse's 'organized sound', Schafer's 'soundscape', Feld's 'acoustemology', Small's

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... ' and Landy's 'sound-based music', whereby a variety of musics and practices converge. This proposed special issue will address ubimus from the perspective of ecosystems: sites for the meeting of technologies, people and creative experiences, and questions of materiality and sustainability.