https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/116 Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Leonardo. daily 1 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 text/html en-US Vol. 1 (1968) through current issue Latest Articles: Leonardo TWO Project MUSE® Leonardo 1530-9282 0024-094X Latest articles in Leonardo. Feed provided by Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987977 <p></p> After more than five decades of continuous practice, free improvisation still enjoys a curious position in the world of music: It is often misunderstood by other musicians, over-looked by the mainstream audience, and deeply loved by a small sample of listeners and practitioners. Free improvisation is usually best defined by its processes and intentions rather than its sonic output, as indicated by David Borgo [1], Harald Stenstr&#xF6;m [2], and Maud Hickey [3], flourishing from the desire to be a universal form of music-making, which borrows stones from each player&#39;s cultural background as its means to construct a new house for each performance. Musical analysis can explain how a particular performance was built, and ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987979">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/116/image/coversmall Nonhuman Companionship: Practicing Free Improvisation Through Interaction with Machines 2026-04-21 text/html en-US Nonhuman Companionship: Practicing Free Improvisation Through Interaction with Machines 2026-04-21 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 66152 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2026-04-21 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987976 <p></p> Defining art has been a challenging and complex task throughout history, and the subject of an intense and evolving debate. In recent years, the emergence of novel modes of artistic expression resulting from artists and scientists&#39; collaboration (e.g., Artists-in-Labs program) defied the traditional conceptions of art [1]. The nature of contemporary multidisciplinary practices [2] has successfully broadened the domains associated with art into new media and technologies. This phenomenon is exemplified by generative art, defined by Galanter as &#x22;any art practice in which the artist uses a system, such as a set of natural language rules, a computer program, a machine, or other procedural invention, that is set into ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987979">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/116/image/coversmall De tripas corazón (From Guts to Heart): A Generative Art Audiovisual Exploration of the Gut-Brain Axis 2026-04-21 text/html en-US De tripas corazón (From Guts to Heart): A Generative Art Audiovisual Exploration of the Gut-Brain Axis 2026-04-21 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 61603 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2026-04-21 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987988 <p></p> A new year invites us to reimagine how knowledge moves across disciplines, media, and lived experience. This first issue of 2026 celebrates that spirit of open and permeable inquiry, beginning with our Focus Section on Ubiquitous Music (ubimus). Guest Editors Anthony (Tony) L. Brooks, Dami&#xE1;n Keller, and Martin K. Koszolko have brought together a collection of manuscripts that challenges traditional boundaries of where and how music happens, opening new ways of thinking about creativity, connection, and participation in sound.At its core, ubimus asks what becomes possible when musical creation is no longer confined to studios or stages but arises from everyday encounters that are mediated by digital tools, networked ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987979">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/116/image/coversmall Leonardo Journal 2026 2026-04-21 text/html en-US Leonardo Journal 2026 2026-04-21 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 4169 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2026-04-21 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987989 <p></p> Jane Goodall&#39;s teachings remind us that while humans may be the most intellectual creatures on the planet, we do not appear to be the most intelligent, as &#x22;Intelligent creatures don&#39;t destroy their only home&#x22; [1]. Leonardo takes inspiration from Jane Goodall&#39;s call to use our overdeveloped intellect and find ways to come together to develop the deeper intelligence of hope. Given the widespread decline of planetary health [2], this is no longer an aspiration; it is an existential imperative. Jane implored us to cultivate hope as the deeper intelligence required to safeguard our home and save planet Earth. She urged all to embrace more sustainable lifestyles and systems centered on resiliency and regeneration ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987979">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/116/image/coversmall On Hope and Creatives for Earth 2026-04-21 text/html en-US On Hope and Creatives for Earth 2026-04-21 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 8605 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2026-04-21 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987990 <p></p> Reflecting Frank and Roger Malina&#39;s vision of this journal as an international channel of communication among artists, this editorial team represents three continents. We and the author teams are honored to be a part of Leonardo/ISAST&#39;s growing community, recognized today as a leading organization for artists and scientists interested in the application of contemporary science and technology to the arts, in this edition highlighting the contributions of ubiquitous music.Ubiquitous music (ubimus) is a field of research that combines several perspectives from music computing, human-computer interaction, creativity studies, and education, with a strong social and community underpinning. The term owes its origins to ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987979">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/116/image/coversmall Exploring the Interdisciplinary Dimensions of Second-Wave Ubiquitous Music 2026-04-21 text/html en-US Exploring the Interdisciplinary Dimensions of Second-Wave Ubiquitous Music 2026-04-21 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 42444 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2026-04-21 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987991 <p></p> The seed for the film With Peter Bradley was planted in 2019. During a reception at his gallery in the Hudson Valley town of Saugerties, New York, Robert Langdon introduced the artist Peter Bradley to Alex Rappoport, this film&#39;s director. Although both the artist and the director had lived in the area for many years, just minutes apart, they had never met. The end result of this encounter, With Peter Bradley, gives us entry into Bradley&#39;s amazing life story and his innovative artistic process.The film presents the artist in an intimate and inspirational form through Bradley&#39;s clear, unscripted discussion and archival materials. Aged just under 80 when the project started, Bradley tells us that he still feels young ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987979">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/116/image/coversmall With Peter Bradley by Alex Rappoport (review) 2026-04-21 text/html en-US With Peter Bradley by Alex Rappoport (review) 2026-04-21 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 14938 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2026-04-21 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987992 <p></p> Daniel Oberhaus&#39;s The Silicon Shrink is a tour of the shaky foundations of psychiatric artificial intelligence, or &#x22;PAI&#x22;&#x2014;the application of machine learning in the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders. This is Oberhaus&#39;s second book. His first, also with The MIT Press, was Extraterrestrial Languages (2019) [1], an overview of attempts to communicate with aliens from the nineteenth century to the present. Previously a staff writer at Wired magazine (he recently founded a company that provides brand marketing for &#x22;deep tech&#x22; startup companies), he had a primary interest in energy and space travel. Still, while there, technology writing offered a front seat to a boom in digital mental health startups. Oberhaus ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987979">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/116/image/coversmall The Silicon Shrink: How Artificial Intelligence Made the World An Asylum by Daniel Oberhaus (review) 2026-04-21 text/html en-US The Silicon Shrink: How Artificial Intelligence Made the World An Asylum by Daniel Oberhaus (review) 2026-04-21 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 18452 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2026-04-21 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987993 <p></p> The artist Frank J. Malina (1912&#x2013;1981) is renowned across the Leonardo community as the founder of the Leonardo journal. Many within the community also know that he was one of the fathers of light art. Yet, given the breadth of his accomplishments as an artist and scientist, it is striking that Frank Malina: Light Art and Scientific Abstraction is the first comprehensive work to focus on his art. As the book presents the superb pictorial luminosity of the artist&#39;s pioneering artwork, it also places his artwork within the context of his remarkable life as both an artist and a scientist. This valuable resource makes it possible to now supersede the vague sketch many of us have about his life and replace it with a ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987979">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/116/image/coversmall Frank Malina: Light Art and Scientific Abstraction ed. by Camille Fremontier (review) 2026-04-21 text/html en-US Frank Malina: Light Art and Scientific Abstraction ed. by Camille Fremontier (review) 2026-04-21 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 13014 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2026-04-21 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987994 <p></p> In the past few years, there has been a rise in the application of computer vision, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to problems in the history and interpretation of fine art paintings and drawings. This new field, which some call computer-assisted connoisseurship, is rather different from familiar digital humanities. While some of these computational efforts have been rather ham-fisted and based on unsound methodology or incomplete art historical context, other efforts have provided valuable cultural insights or have resolved art-historical debates for which traditional (noncomputer) methods have proven inadequate. For instance, computer-assisted connoisseurship proved central in rebutting David ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987979">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/116/image/coversmall Computational Formalism: Art History and Machine Learning by Amanda Wasielewski (review) 2026-04-21 text/html en-US Computational Formalism: Art History and Machine Learning by Amanda Wasielewski (review) 2026-04-21 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 8276 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2026-04-21 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987995 <p></p> The general structure of this book, building on a PhD at Penn, is as conventional as it may be, with an introduction, four case study&#x2013;based chapters, and an epilogue, all packed in the no less conventional length of a 228-page publication. Yet this editorial packaging is probably the only conventional element of the whole book. The work itself is scholarly amazing and truly avant-garde, not in its writing, very didactic and fluent to read, even for readers less familiar with the technical aspects of online, either digitized or digital-born art and literature, but in its take on essential but understudied collections and its defense of a different way of scrutinizing the online websites that host them.The ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987979">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/116/image/coversmall The Little Database: A Poetics of Media Formats by Daniel Scott Snelson (review) 2026-04-21 text/html en-US The Little Database: A Poetics of Media Formats by Daniel Scott Snelson (review) 2026-04-21 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 13199 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2026-04-21 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987996 <p></p> This book, the French reworking of a 2020 collection edited by Marie Cadalanu and Phil Powrie, The French Film Musical, addresses the form and history of a relatively heterogeneous genre hovering between typically French real life entertainment like chanson and operetta and the multimedia sphere of the modern music industry, with its methodical blurring of boundaries between theatrical performance, radio and television broadcasting, music for home entertainment, specialized press, etc.Although French musicals are close to their better-known American equivalents, there are also vital differences between them. What distinguishes the French production is, above all, its extreme diversity. French musicals are less ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987979">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/116/image/coversmall Comédies Musicales à La Française. Formes Et Mutations De l'Opérette Cinématographique ed. by Marie Cadalanu and Jérôme Rossi (review) 2026-04-21 text/html en-US Comédies Musicales à La Française. Formes Et Mutations De l'Opérette Cinématographique ed. by Marie Cadalanu and Jérôme Rossi (review) 2026-04-21 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 9252 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2026-04-21 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987997 <p></p> &#x22;I have a funny problem with humor &#x2026; because I don&#39;t consider it fun. I remember cartoons on TV that were old, pre-Mickey Mouse cartoons. These mysterious, black-faced mice. I saw new prints of old Bill Durham ads with these coon scenes, genre scenes, sitting on the porch with all these animals. It&#39;s strange but this is somebody&#39;s idea of the good life &#x2026; full of people with a kind of peasant worship&#x2014;these humorous, clown coon images &#x2026; these black characters.&#x22;This anthology is a curated compendium of critical writing on Kara Walker&#39;s iconic ideas in storytelling and visual media. In addition to the notorious silhouettes, ink drawings, graphics, sugar sculptures, and performances are analyzed in detail. Throughout ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987979">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/116/image/coversmall Kara Walker (October Files 28) ed. by Vanina Géré (review) 2026-04-21 text/html en-US Kara Walker (October Files 28) ed. by Vanina Géré (review) 2026-04-21 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 14027 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2026-04-21 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987987 <p></p> Three example gestures: raised left hand (left), opposite shoulder touch (middle), left hand to head (right). (&#xA9; ross greer) (See the article in this issue by ross greer, laura Fleig, and Shlomo Dubnov.)BCI Artwork exhibit, 2020, Chicago, Il. (&#xA9; M. Mathew) (See the article in this issue by Marlene Mathew.)De tripas coraz&#xD3;n: User wearing a Muse band interacting with the piece. (&#xA9; Aurea K. ram&#xED;rez-Jim&#xE9;nez. Photo &#xA9; leonardo David luna Fern&#xE1;ndez.) (See the article in this issue by Aurea K. ram&#xED;rez-Jim&#xE9;nez, Said Emmanuel Dokins Mili&#xE1;n, Enrique garc&#xED;a-Alcal&#xE1;, Mar&#xED;a del Carmen gonz&#xE1;lez-l&#xF3;pez, Piedad Mart&#xED;nez garc&#xED;a, Victor(ia) Batres-Prieto, Yuritzi Barbosa, Alejandro Castrejon, and Samuel Iv&#xE1;n ram&#xED;rez-Navarro.)The ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987979">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/116/image/coversmall Color Plates 2026-04-21 text/html en-US Color Plates 2026-04-21 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 3084 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2026-04-21 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987981 <p></p> Second-wave ubiquitous music (ubimus) has generally concerned itself with the integration of a diverse set of frameworks intended to rethink how music is theorized and practiced in a radically inclusive manner [1]. From a technological viewpoint, while ubimus has traditionally concerned itself with developments at the intersection of music and computing [2], the field has evolved to encompass a broad range of sonic and musical practices including both generative music [3,4] and sonification [5]. Although recent years have seen the rapid and accelerating proliferation of generative AI tools in sound and music computing contexts [6], the concept of generative music has been with us for much longer. It is often ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987979">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/116/image/coversmall Generative Sonification of Synthetic Virology Data with Waveshaping and Granular Synthesis Techniques 2026-04-21 text/html en-US Generative Sonification of Synthetic Virology Data with Waveshaping and Granular Synthesis Techniques 2026-04-21 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 73235 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2026-04-21 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987982 <p></p> The history of our current understanding of the workings of the brain and how the body perceives the world around it is filled with periods of revolution and advances in neuroscience and brain imaging technology. The earliest forms of neuroscience were often pathology-based and involved performing autopsies on &#x22;normal&#x22; physiological bodies or individuals with neurological pathology. They also involved primitive electrical stimulation that could hardly afford us any insight into how we create our perceptions. One such moment in history that opened possibilities for researchers to study how the brain integrates sensory information came with the invention of electroencephalography (EEG) in the early twentieth century ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987979">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/116/image/coversmall After Images: Artistic Expressions of EEG Data Evoked by Optical Illusions 2026-04-21 text/html en-US After Images: Artistic Expressions of EEG Data Evoked by Optical Illusions 2026-04-21 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 59471 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2026-04-21 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987983 <p></p> Through the Healthy Ageing Catalyst Awards, the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) has partnered with the venture capital firm Zinc to fund entrepreneurial academics who want to translate their research into impactful and scalable products, services, and interventions.The awards are part of the United Kingdom Research and Innovation (UKRI) Healthy Ageing Challenge and the Healthy Longevity Global Grand Challenge, founded by the US National Academy of Medicine (NAM) [1]. This is a worldwide movement to improve physical, mental, and social well-being for people as they age. The Catalyst Awards are designed to create impact beyond academic research by funding early-stage, high-risk research-based ideas and ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987979">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/116/image/coversmall Green Walking: Artful Technologies for Natural Connection 2026-04-21 text/html en-US Green Walking: Artful Technologies for Natural Connection 2026-04-21 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 35165 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2026-04-21 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987984 <p></p> Humans and ecosystems are of the same kin. Here, we portray the ecotones of the mind as latent morphologies, as hidden sources of life and abundance. In the beauty of the cyber poetics lie diffused entities reflecting new forms of reciprocal embodiment. May the mirror of nature guide us through the richness of our communion, embracing the responsibility and care of a loving relationship. May the soft cyclical beauty tend for our deep belonging, hopeful whispers of intuitive wisdom. Gratefulness will be our first step forward, in the rainforests of the mind, even when the chiaroscuro imprints our souls. And we will gather our compassionate bodies as one, with chimeras of the lands imagining the new shape of our ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987979">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/116/image/coversmall Latent Ecologies of the Mind: Laying Down the Path for Ecopoietic Hyperfeedback Systems 2026-04-21 text/html en-US Latent Ecologies of the Mind: Laying Down the Path for Ecopoietic Hyperfeedback Systems 2026-04-21 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 80376 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2026-04-21 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987985 <p></p> &#x22;Antennae, numerous limbs, and covered in eyes&#x22; is a confronting yet plausible description that many of us may imagine an alien life form to resemble. Indeed, science fiction imagines &#x22;insectoid&#x22; aliens [1] with bodies similar to those of insects on Earth. For example, bees have two antennae, six legs, and five eyes. Certainly, insects like bees, from which we humans diverged over 600 million years ago [2], could be considered an insectoid alien model that exists right here on Earth.Since parting ways, both honeybees (Apis mellifera) and humans have independently developed effective, but different, means of communication (the waggle dance in bees and language in humans) and cooperation within complex societies. ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987979">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/116/image/coversmall Could Mathematics Be the Language of the Universe? An Insight from Our Distant Relatives 2026-04-21 text/html en-US Could Mathematics Be the Language of the Universe? An Insight from Our Distant Relatives 2026-04-21 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 62797 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2026-04-21 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987986 <p></p> In times of crisis, societies often turn to art to help process grief, build resilience, and remember important events [1]. Memorials to lived experience are an expression, and an expansion, of the kinds of knowledge that can be remembered publicly. They are influenced by discourses of trauma, human rights, and transitional justice [2]. Memorial art in particular plays a role in creating spaces for reflection, healing, and community connection [3]. However, traditional memorials usually focus on fixed designs and single narratives, which can leave out marginalized communities and underrepresented voices [4]. This issue has become clearer during recent global crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic, which exposed deep ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987979">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/116/image/coversmall Memorial Art for All: Supporting Marginalized Communities in Collective Healing 2026-04-21 text/html en-US Memorial Art for All: Supporting Marginalized Communities in Collective Healing 2026-04-21 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 53870 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2026-04-21 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987980 <p></p> Ubiquitous music (ubimus) has emerged as a transdisciplinary field exploring the integration of musical experiences into everyday environments through computational systems, networked technologies, and participatory frameworks. Building upon ubiquitous computing [1], where technologies become seamlessly integrated into everyday life, ubimus expands opportunities for creative musical engagement beyond traditional settings and trained practitioners to encompass activities emerging from everyday interactions with information technology [2]. Despite the inherent spatial dimensions of this field&#x2014;the insertion of musical practices into everyday spaces, the creation of networked sonic environments, the blurring of ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987979">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/116/image/coversmall Codified Sonic Territories: Understanding Ubiquitous Music through Critical Spatial Theory 2026-04-21 text/html en-US Codified Sonic Territories: Understanding Ubiquitous Music through Critical Spatial Theory 2026-04-21 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 67495 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2026-04-21 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987978 <p></p> Ubiquitous music (ubimus) is a relatively new field. In a 2023 conference editorial, Dami&#xE1;n Keller and associates describe a &#x22;first wave&#x22; of ubimus work (2007&#x2013;2014) and a second wave extending to the present [1]. Mark Weiser, a computer scientist who joined Xerox PARC in 1987 and later became Chief Technologist at its Computer Science Laboratory, is often cited as central to ubimus&#39;s origins. Weiser pioneered ubiquitous computing (ubicomp), regarded in ubimus literature as the latter&#39;s foundational influence [2]. As Keller et al. stated in 2014, &#x22;In practice, Ubiquitous Music is music (or musical activities) supported by ubiquitous computing (or ubicomp) concepts and technology&#x22; [3].The network concept, crucial to ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987979">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/116/image/coversmall Becoming a Player: The Ubiquitous Subjectivity of SoVo 2026-04-21 text/html en-US Becoming a Player: The Ubiquitous Subjectivity of SoVo 2026-04-21 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 70617 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2026-04-21 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987979 <p></p> Group music-making functions much like a conversation, involving the exchange of verbal, nonverbal, and musical cues that shape performance. It relies on a rich exchange of information between musicians, requiring multiple channels for sending and receiving messages, and agreed-upon conventions for determining which (or whose) messages are prioritized to form a cohesive musical output. Cues, ranging from eye contact and posture shifts to collective breathing, serve as messages sent by an encoder and interpreted by a decoder. Success depends on alignment between intent and perception, forming a coherent musical output [1]. Nonverbal communication is particularly vital: Gestures signal entries and releases, eye ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987979">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/116/image/coversmall ImproVision: Visual Communication and Human-Computer Interactions for Musical Creativity 2026-04-21 text/html en-US ImproVision: Visual Communication and Human-Computer Interactions for Musical Creativity 2026-04-21 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 63511 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2026-04-21