Urbanities,
Vol. 3
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No 2
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November 2013
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who choose whether to play in public. In spite of such loose network, the links among
musicians are strong and involve people, such as for example EU managers, who speak
different languages and structure their life in the city as occasionally dwellers, voluntarily
outside the flow of local life,.
In all those four cases, I study not only the specific forms of collaboration that music
can produce, but also the complex processes that generate the final form of the project (which,
in reality, is never reached). In some cases, such as Caracas and Milan, the motivation works
as a generator of aims, which over time have shifted from nationalism to social cooperation.
In other cases, such as Brussels and South Oxhey, there are established aims (just play music
or create a link between twos part of the city) that generate different motivations for people to
participate. In all the four cases the development of the projects remains open; interestingly
the original plans rooted in different traditions and experiences may well produce for
unexpected results. Therefore I conclude that any strategic plan, however carefully laid and
precise, is subject to modifications due both to the context and to the unexpected results that it
always generates.
