2022
DOI: 10.1177/14661381221124502
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‘The game is on!’ Eventness at a distance at a livestream concert during lockdown

Abstract: In many countries the lockdown measures in response to the Covid-19 pandemic forbade social gatherings, including for performing arts. Numerous artists developed projects, often attempting to reach audiences in cyberspace. We offer an ethnographic study of such a project: a jazz concert played live for a particular audience, who attended it from home. We seek to understand how musicians, audience, and the material setting made it possible to engage with music in a way that gave these moments a particular densi… Show more

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“…The emergence of virtual entertainment platforms has gained popularity as a new space for music events, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic [1,2]. The definition of virtual concerts varies in the academic literature, such as livestream concerts [3][4][5], holographic concerts [6][7][8], and concerts requiring VR hardware [9,10]. In this study, a virtual concert is defined as a musical performance in which participants are projected into a digital virtual environment in the forms of virtual avatars [11,12].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The emergence of virtual entertainment platforms has gained popularity as a new space for music events, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic [1,2]. The definition of virtual concerts varies in the academic literature, such as livestream concerts [3][4][5], holographic concerts [6][7][8], and concerts requiring VR hardware [9,10]. In this study, a virtual concert is defined as a musical performance in which participants are projected into a digital virtual environment in the forms of virtual avatars [11,12].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%