ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses creative processes which enable groups to make new music in educational settings. The speed of development of new art forms, musical techniques and ideas has been magnified through global media awareness and free distribution of individual content on media sharing platforms. Increasing numbers of listeners are able to restructure, remix and re-create music they consume. Popular music industry has already demonstrated the value of teamwork since the 1940s, as do film, television and media composition today. While the latter case sounds undesirable, it is worth noting that composers who have dedicated their work to eradicating gestural archetypes from their music, or composers who have sought new expressive languages, have often adopted highly specific procedural approaches. Hybrid approaches to musical composition can enable juxtapositions between musical ideas, while not attempting to formulate crossovers. At one end of the spectrum, a lack of risk results in emulation and sticking to safe, well-worn musical territory.
