New Ways of Making Music and Being a Musician in the Digital Era
Abstract
The existence of the Internet has revolutionized the music industry, forever changing its forms of participation and promotion. As a result, the space of execution-promotion of music is expanded to include the virtual world, being able to reach com-munities that share similar interests or common identity traits at a global level. This situation is presented as an opportunity for little known repertoire, such as the Latin American and Iberian art song. Based on the experiences with Internet2, which occurred at the Barcelona Festival of Song, the article explores concepts such as the real, the virtual, and the interspace. It analyzes how the interactions produced in these spaces affect our identity, either as musicians or as consumers of music. This new scenario demands that educational institutions train musicians to develop new ways of being a musician and of making music, mediated by technology.