ABSTRACT
This chapter employs cloud-based word processor and spreadsheet tools and online file-sharing repositories to facilitate real-time workflows that allow us to collaborative and interact productively with people anywhere on the planet, provided they have an Internet connection. People in technologically advanced societies frequently engage in almost instantaneous communication with friends and colleagues across physical distance, often in remote locations, in the form of email, SMS, social media, and various messaging apps. Dropout affects real-time performance and music production, as it introduces glitches in the audio signal. Literature suggests, as anyone with experience in this area might expect, that latency is one of the fundamental challenges for attempting to engage in real-time, interactive music making over a network. The authors strongly believe that real-time, remote, interactive recording sessions are not simply a phenomenon that has occurred as a result of niche academic research projects.
