This research monograph explores the rapidly expanding field of networked music making and the ways in which musicians of different cultures improvise together online. It draws on extensive research to uncover the creative and cognitive approaches that geographically dispersed musicians develop to interact in displaced tele-improvisatory collaboration. It presents a multimodal analysis of three tele-improvisatory performances that examine how cross-cultural musicians express and perceive intentionality in these interactions, as well as their experiences of distributed agency and tele-presence.

Tele-Improvisation: Intercultural Interaction in the Online Global Music Jam Session will provide essential reading for musicians, postgraduate students, researchers and educators, working in the areas of telematic performance, musicology, music cognition, intercultural communication, distance collaboration and learning, digital humanities, Computer Supported Cooperative Work and HCI.

Part 1.- Intercultural Tele-Improvisation: Inside the Online Global jam Session.- Telematics, Art and the Evolution of  Networked Music Performance.- Intercultural Tele-Improvisation: Multi-idiomatic Approaches.- Part II.- Intercultural Tele-Improvisatory Performance in Action.- Towards a Theory of Tele-Improvisatory Collaboration.- Part III.- Liminal Worlds: Presence and Performer Agency in Tele-Collaborative.- Whats that Sound?  Culture, Significance and Interpretation of Electronic Sound and Noise.- Conclusion:Intercultural Tele-­Improvisatory Interaction: Applications and Contexts.- Appendix