Chapter Three “ the Music One Participates in ”

Content created by users is a public affair. In the cultural field of music, this includes diverse activities of listening, sharing, editing, recording. Jacques Attali predicts that music will become a network of composition, where people actively participate in music-as-process, as a form of collective play [Attali, 1985]. Christopher Small coined the term, musicking, to describe music as a social act [Small, 1998]. This sets a context of participation for acts of sound making practice how can composers, authors, and artists conceive of new forms of music where the listener enters into the process of co-creation?