Ubiquitous music: Culturally grounded approaches to interaction and creativity

“Ubimus” is a neologism formed from the combination of two words: ubiquitous and music. Rather than a fixed or static set of techniques and tools, it may be understood as an ethos or a movement. This fluidity might be problematic for newcomers to this field because there is a strong tendency within established musicological and technological artistic research toward formalization along genre lines. Within the ubimus community, music is described as an experience influx that may incorporate both tangible and intangible resources.1 However, outside of ubimus, there is a recurring tendency to objectify music as sound or, in tool-oriented terminology, as an object or “a thing.” This oversimplification equates music to a product or a process constrained within a specific infrastructure or a musical genre. © 2026 Author(s).