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Composers Experimental Online Suite (ComeXos)

GEMISIS (Government, Education, Medical, Industrial and Social Information Superhighway) 2000 was a multi-disciplinary European Union-funded Internet research initiative, based at the University of Salford. The project took the Internet as its theme and, in each of the areas mentioned, researchers identified the changes taking place and the implications of change to each discipline. The core aims of GEMISIS 2000 were to use electronic networking technology better to serve the community and to assist in the regeneration of the economy in the northwest of England. The Composers’ Experimental Online Suite (ComeXos) was developed in the Music Department of the University of Salford as one of the projects in GEMISIS 2000. The aim of ComeXos was to develop a central music resource for local schools and universities, to provide a more effective and more efficient service to users in utilising music software via the Internet, and to share ideas and musical works with other users throughout the ComeXos community. This paper presents some of the key benefits to the education community of centralising an integrated learning environment for ICT in Music using a computer network. It explains how ComeXos is designed — drawing on background studies — and how it functions in the context of the overall agenda for ICT education in UK.