"Atau Tanaka, Nao Tokui, and Ali Momeni. 2005. Facilitating collective musical creativity. In Proceedings of the 13th annual ACM international conference on Multimedia (MULTIMEDIA '05). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 191-198. DOI=10.1145/1101149.1101177 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1101149.1101177" We present two projects that facilitate collective music creativity over networks. One system is a participative social music system on mobile devices. The other is a collaborative music mixing environment that adheres to the Creative Commons license [1]. We discuss how network and community infrastructures affect the creative musical process, and the implications for artists creating new content for these formats. The projects described are real-world examples of collaborative systems as musical works.

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