Febos: A service-oriented system for collaborative music creation

Abstract

This paper describes the building of Febos, a set of web services to be used in the development of aggregate services applications that allow the collaborative creation music over the Internet. The paper describes the context in which musical creation takes place and how digital technologies have changed the relationships among the actors involved within such context. Febos has been built as a service-oriented system, which means that it has been built by using services as first-class objects for the whole development process. © 2010 Springer-Verlag.