ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to investigate the relationships in Titubanda’s creative processes in bringing the written score into performance through collective interpretation. It examines how the band learned and arranged a song, “Love in Outerspace” by the experimental jazz musician Sun Ra, and how its performance evolved from the first reading to its inclusion in the repertoire with the creation of an accessible arrangement for a multi-level ensemble. In Titubanda too, the wide heterophonic variances in performance are heard as part of the “spirit” of the band, far from “incorrect” elements to be “perfected.” Titubanda is a mobile brass and percussion street band that is “open” to everyone, from the beginner to the expert musician. The repertoire of Titubanda consists of pieces from many different musical cultures of the world, proposed and arranged by the band’s musicians. The heterophonic sound is linked to the practices of many participatory oral musics.
