GlobeMusic: the Internet scale of eMusic-Making

The Internet is not only the global data highway but also the upcoming fourth mass medium. In this role, it procreates new musical genres and new roles of musical content providers and consumers. In an attempt to contribute to and explore this exciting (r)evolution, we developed GlobeMusic, a novel system and concept for eMusic-Making. Major ingredients of GlobeMusic were developed and exposed to a large public in the last four years. GlobeMusic and its components mainly address the following issues: computer-human interaction, individual eMusic-making, appropriate computer network protocols, musical data formats, and cooperative eMusic-making. The paper sketches the four major evolution steps of GlobeMusic because each of these steps represents a key aspect and system component.