ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the concept of musical creativity. Rather than giving an overview of established views on the subject, it aims to introduce a theoretical framework that should provide an operational description of creativity by approaching it from the positions of cybernetics and systems theory (see Reybrouck, 2005). As such it should go beyond approaches that conceive of the process of creativity only at the level of composing and performance, and that focus mainly on a rather limited range of music. The approach I propose locates musical creativity both at the level of the reception and performance of music, and at the level of internal processing. As such it allows us to conceive of musical creativity in terms of interaction, as “coping with the sonic world”.
