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Abstract This paper proposes a reflection on the temporal dimension of connected listening through musical liveness. We will understand connected listening, not as a particular way of listening to and consuming music, but as a way of understanding musical listening in a broader sense, paying attention to its "non-musical" layers, that is, as a communicational practice activated through the engagement between the human body and reproduction technologies in networked connection regimes and through digital platforms. Based on three brief reports on recent live show broadcasts, we propose a debate on "live" music, not as a technical condition of recording and transmission, but as an effect constructed through the agency of asynchronies and complex temporalities of recorded performance, understanding musical listening as a temporalizing and agentic element of a present time.

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