ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews professional journey in an open-access music ensemble project that stretched professional boundaries as a music practitioner artistically as well as socially and emotionally. It takes the initiative to form World In Motion ensemble following the arrival of over 32,000 refugees in Finland in 2015. The chapter provides a welcoming musical space in the centre of Helsinki for refugee musicians to collaborate with music university students and teachers, and focuses on creating new music together. At-home ethnography embraces the idea of the researcher as the observing participant, for whom the participation in the setting is the first priority, and whose research is born out of this position. Being open to unplanned turns and being inspired by each other’s unlimited imagination corresponds to the idea Thirdspace and viewing the ensemble as a musical Thirdspace helped to frame the emerging nature of the work as a particular approach to creative music making.
