Entangled Musicianship: Rethinking Music Education and Digital Musical Interactions through Posthumanist Theory

This paper develops entangled musicianship as a theoretical and conceptual orientation that rethinks inclusion at the intersection of music education, digital musical instrument (DMI) design and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). Drawing on findings from an AHRC funded network, it interrogates how disconnections between pedagogy, technology, access are sustained by humanist and cognitivist paradigms. Through a posthuman and diffractive methodology, the paper foregrounds relationality, and intra-action as central to both musical learning and digital design. Entangled musicianship emerges as a provocation toward more ethical and responsive approaches to inclusion, offering a significant contribution to interdisciplinary discourse across music education, DMI and HCI.