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Musiclab works inside the artistic area.
We are mainly working with musicians.
We pretend to create a community to experiment,
share and innovate.
All of this started because we thought that until now
the artistic area has been always very independent.
Nowadays, there are different communities in the Knowledge Society and many ITC tools
are created, so we aim to innovate with them inside the music area.
We try to put in another context every tool we use,
a context that helps us thanks to the Internet, all of these tools and also social networks.
Musiclab follows the Living Lab methodology
in the sense that we all work together: users and team members.
The idea is that all of us create Musiclab.
The co-creation process is targeted to every user, to the whole community.
Musiclab is an interdisciplinary team, driven and coordinated by Santiago Sánchez (me),
and Sergio Ramos, both of us artists in the music area.
There is an audiovisual and multimedia team, which is driven by Álex Serra and Laia Sánchez.
There is also a communications engineering team: Pedro Lorente and Francisco Iglesias (IGLOR).
Undoubtly, we count on Citilab's team and also the artistic community.
Regarding the Living Lab methodology, Musiclab
generates contents together with the artistic community.
One of the main objectives of Musiclab is to generate shared, online, live contents.
In other words, we have participated in diverse festivals, developing a series of protocols
in order to play simultaneously across the Internet,
to make interactive pedagogical sessions with more than 12 specialized centers,
and also we have generated diverse auditions with different music styles.
This is for generating links between cultures.
Musiclab tries to make the community dynamic
generating co-created contents.
One of them, currently work in progress,
it is based from some contents that come from some artistic groups from Granada (Andalucia).
There were graphic and audio materials, then from Musiclab we added musical creations
from our team members.
Now we are trying to generate an artistic content
that is shared with different musicians that until today they did not know each other.
One of out most exciting goals is to make onlive, line networks dynamic.
In other words, the musical interaction that is online and live.
That idea offers us the chance to think of a platform
where different musicians from the Musiclab community could play from their places.
A free, virtual scenario for every artist.
From these interactions we think that a new way to create music can be born.
Also, a new way to link artists and break the geographical and cultural barriers.
We have got experiences with the National Orchestra from South Korea.
It was an interactive experience: us playing from Citilab and them from South Korea.
We also had some experiences with the SAT society of Montreal (Canada).
All of this encourages us to continue investigating and developing interactive music networks.
We have an stable programme that carries out
our main objectives here at Musiclab.
It is composed by master classes, auditions, experiments and shared sessions.
Some of the results are: the normalization of the processes of production and co-creation.
An example of this are the master classes and interactive sessions.
All of our contents and methodology is open and accessible from our blog,
which will welcome everyone from the artistic community.
