ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the wide scope of ICT application in creative musical practice. The multidisciplinary nature of ICT and music research and the interests of audio engineering and computing science in the topic also push and cross more familiar musicological boundaries. The mapping project stems from an urge to try to create or impose some order on what seems to be an ill-defined situation as to how ICT is being used across this musical domain. The use of ICT in performance training is perhaps the area that has fewest intersections with conventionally defined musicological research. SmartMusic has very specific visual feedback for users. ICT-based distribution and dissemination serve a very large constituency of music learners, teachers and researchers, an even larger one of general music lovers and a generation of 'born digital' creative music-makers. As well as distribution of their own performance or compositional work, performers can benefit from the easy accessibility of recorded music archives.
