ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines that there is no single creativity for all musics and that different contexts give rise to different types of music creativities and involve practices as diverse as the musics themselves. The compositional practices featured include those of a turntablist (DJ) composer whose practice calls into question conventional understandings of the interplay between innovative sampling, audiences and constructed socio-spatial principle. The game music composer, who works in the videogame industry, gives priority to the team collaboration and developing complex user-interface technology. The chapter concludes with an argument for expanding current understandings of musical creativities, widening and accommodating diverse compositional practices in the context of music education, and in terms of radically rethinking professional music training. Different techniques of compositional creativity involve unwritten rules of the game, but generate practices and attribute meanings in accordance with the values of the field.
