In music making "in company," the protagonists have to follow the rules of interaction and create the cohesion of "being together." At the same time, they try to promote personal goals which depend on specific personal treasure troves of experience, which are continuously being modified also as a result of the ex-change between individuals. The perspective of the "individuals in company" leads the emphasis of the investigations to the ways in which the acts of performance, interpretation and local discourse give shape to creative processes in multipart music making and to the definition of...