ABSTRACT
Although all the pandemics, humanity has witnessed, have huge impacts on social, cultural, and educational life, the COVID-19 differs from such times of crisis with uninterrupted communication facilities among social actors provided by digital technologies. While the lockdowns and strict measures for public events have dramatically impacted how music is learned, produced, and shared, new ways of experiencing all these processes could be invented with the help of technological infrastructures. To be more specific, music education is coping with the lack of face-to-face learning by using new forms of organizations formed by new software and hardware programs. For some, this process is nothing but a temporary solution until the end of the pandemic. However, for others, these practices promise a more permanent way of distant music learning. On the other hand, such reflections on the music industry have been experienced through performance practices. Some musical events are held online, while others are canceled because of unstable regulations. This chapter aims to understand the attitudes and experiences of the music education community and the music industry in Istanbul during the COVID-19 pandemic. For this purpose, the chapter uses the literature review methods on distant learning and online events, a survey conducted among all music practitioners such as teachers, students, performers, composers. In addition, it makes inner and outer observations and uses virtual ethnography. © Peter Lang GmbH Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Berlin 2022. All rights reserved.