The Audience as Co-Composer

Composer Tod Machover and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra have been hard at work on an "interactive symphony" that incorporates city sounds recorded and submitted by the public. Their newest project is a digital app that allows people to remix certain sections of the work-in-progress. Read more from Jessica Wong of CBC News. Along the same lines, a new doctoral thesis in Musicology from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, explores how a composer can create computer-based interactive music that is musically satisfying for an audience consisting of both the general public and skilled musicians.