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Concerted Creativity in the Digital Age: How do we Crack the Code…?

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The purpose of the present article is to contribute to the development of a socio-material, situated conceptualization of creativity, in exploring music making as it becomes meaningful in performative emergence processes of the digital age. It uses the creative practices of musicians to analyse and discuss the qualities of ‘digital materials’ in a creative setting, today very often playing a critical role in the production and performance of music. Methodologically, the analysis is based on interviews with professional musicians performing at Roskilde Festival and observations inspired by the autoethnographic approach. The study concludes that creative musical emergence in performance situations of the digital age depends on an openness towards a fragility, imperilling the situation and ‘cracking’ the digital materiality.

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  1. The mini-album ‘SYL’ (working title) was written and produced in 2017 and released and performed in 2018 by Dan Lund Hvidtfeldt in collaboration with (among others) author Josefine Klougart and musicians Anna Brønsted and Eske Nørrelykke.

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This study was funded by Roskilde Festival and Innovation Fund Denmark (grant number 1).

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    Dan Lund Hvidtfeldt & Lene Tanggaard

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Hvidtfeldt, D.L., Tanggaard, L. Concerted Creativity in the Digital Age: How do we Crack the Code…?. Integr. psych. behav. 52, 630–645 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12124-018-9451-9

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