The project music as an invitation - liveness in digital piano performances through participating audiences was funded by the European Union as a Marie Słodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowship hosted at the Grieg Academy, University of Bergen. I would like to thank my funding agency and the staff at my host institution for the support which made this project possible. Special thanks to my supervisor, Prof. Dr. Jill Halstead, for the wise and ever-so-generous guidance, to my collaborator Alwynne Pritchard for writing such a special piece for this project, to my friend Yfat Soul Zisso for the generous proofreading, to my mentors Ida Sophia, Lorenda Ramou and Petter Frost Fadnes, to my husband Benoît for the all-encompassing support, and to Bente Elisabeth Finserås for the beautiful graphic design. My deepest gratitude to the participants in the creative processes of this project - Angel Batista Lorenção, Elizabeth Hayes, Emma Monteiro, Gaia Cicarelli, Gloria Firmino, Iara Martinez D’Ippolito, Igara Cabral, Katrin Hattenhauer, Laura Concheso Martínez, Luciana Noda, Luciana Shirakawa, Marina Matsuoka, Marina Spoladore, Olivia Davison, Patricia Grinberg, Priscilla Barbosa, Sandra Mogensen, Tanya Varbanova, and Tayná Lorenção - thank you for accepting the invitation, we created something beautiful, together.