1. Introduction: The Music Group Why it is interesting? “the guardians must beware of changing to a new form of music, since it threatens the whole system” (Plato, The Republic)

2. Theory: The Music Group

3. Introduction: Why it is interesting? “both micro- and macrolevel structural change can be understood in terms of organizational patterns. Inside the individual cognitive- affective system, organizational patterns of relationship among or within neurological and psychological subsystems are typically described in terms of emotions, thoughts or associations. Within the broader social system, they are described in terms of ideas, styles, and cultures” (Sinnreich, 2010) …the ease-of-use of todays creative technologies and networked organization of today’s communications infrastructure ensure that the tools of media configurability are accessible to hundreds of millions of interconnected individuals. As a result, we have a media and communications system that is historically unique… (Sinnreich 2010)

4. Research question: The Music Group How do musicians in Denmark use the Internet to collaborate on musical projects and what do they gain from it?

5. Methods: The Music Group Survey Interviews

6. Findings: The Music Group 96% has acces to recording facilities 72% share files on the internet in collaboration 92% uses primary network to find collaboraters Use a lot of different tools, email, facebook, dropbox, yousendit.com etc.

7. Analysis: The Music Group

8. Reflections: The Music Group Where we are now?

9. The plan: The Music Group Next step