The virtual concert-goer: audience perspectives on remote music performances
The virtual concert-goer: audience perspectives on remote music performances
Our work explores how audiences perceive and engage with remote music events. The shift to digital platforms has transformed the live music experience, leading to the rise of remote music performances. Following the COVID-19 pandemic, platforms such as Twitch have been repurposed and surged in popularity as meaningful outlets for live music dissemination. Concurrently, novel platforms specifically crafted for music events have begun to emerge. Understanding the preferences and challenges of remote music audiences is crucial because it guides the development of platforms that answer effectively to varied user needs, which could enhance overall engagement and shape the future of music consumption. For this, we employed a qualitative multi-method approach, including a survey, interviews, and event observations, to start mapping the design space of remote music performances and capture a wide spectrum of audience perspectives. Our findings reveal audience engagement patterns in remote music events across different digital platforms, highlighting unmet needs, desires as well as opportunities for future HCI work in this area.
audiences, concerts, live music, live-streaming, music, performance, remote events, users
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Ppali, Sophia, Branch, Boyd, Boem, Alberto, Ppali, Elena, Scorer, Max, Ang, Chee Siang, Turchet, Luca and Covaci, Alexandra
(2025)
The virtual concert-goer: audience perspectives on remote music performances.
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 9 (7), [CSCW250].
(doi:10.1145/3757431).
Abstract
Our work explores how audiences perceive and engage with remote music events. The shift to digital platforms has transformed the live music experience, leading to the rise of remote music performances. Following the COVID-19 pandemic, platforms such as Twitch have been repurposed and surged in popularity as meaningful outlets for live music dissemination. Concurrently, novel platforms specifically crafted for music events have begun to emerge. Understanding the preferences and challenges of remote music audiences is crucial because it guides the development of platforms that answer effectively to varied user needs, which could enhance overall engagement and shape the future of music consumption. For this, we employed a qualitative multi-method approach, including a survey, interviews, and event observations, to start mapping the design space of remote music performances and capture a wide spectrum of audience perspectives. Our findings reveal audience engagement patterns in remote music events across different digital platforms, highlighting unmet needs, desires as well as opportunities for future HCI work in this area.
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Published date: 16 October 2025
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audiences, concerts, live music, live-streaming, music, performance, remote events, users
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Boyd Branch
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Elena Ppali
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Max Scorer
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Chee Siang Ang
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Luca Turchet
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Alexandra Covaci
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