This work investigates how the Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra adapted their collaborative creative processes to the constraints of social isolation during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. The authors, a multidisciplinary team of researchers and musicians, analyze how digital platforms and technical limitations—specifically latency—transformed traditional ensemble improvisation into new, mediated forms of artistic expression. By documenting these shifts, the text provides a framework for understanding the intersection of digital infrastructure and human creative agency in a remote environment.

Experts in musicology and digital performance studies identify this text as a significant contribution to the study of remote collaboration during the pandemic era. Readers frequently note the academic density of the prose, which effectively bridges the gap between technical sound studies and social practice.