Prototyping a New Compositional Paradigm: The Augmented Audience and the Internet of Wearable Musical Things

This research explores how audiences' existing technological integration can inform a new compositional paradigm, focusing on the concept of the augmented audience by prototyping wearable cyber-physical systems — the Internet of Wearable Musical Things (IoWMT). The study operates through a dual framework: a macro framework for conceptual and theoretical development and a micro framework for technical implementation and experimentation. This dual framework forms the basis of the research process, generating new compositional approaches through their continuous interplay rather than sequential application. Together, they provide the context, techniques, and tools for the compositional practices. This research offers a critically reflective artistic perspective on our present technological condition by engaging fields including computer music, human-computer interaction, infrastructure studies, and cyborg theory. It also articulates a compositional stance toward the positionality disparity between composers' embodied technological engagement and audiences' episodic encounter with technology.