Together in cyberspace

A recent musical practice that has emerged as a result of the twenty-first century’s rapidly developing technological landscape is live coding. This is the act of writing computer code for generating music in front of an audience while the performer projects their screen. As the number of live coders performing together increases, so too does the number of screens required to project all of the ensemble’s code. This well-documented problem is addressed in this chapter, which introduces a live coding editor built for collaborative improvisation and reflects on its impact on group creativity and ensemble interaction. The editor Troop displays all performer’s code in one window, simplifying technical setup, and shares inter-performer communication with audiences. This case study explores technological design parameters that allow live-coding composers to collaboratively compose music in real time and discuss what means of interaction and collaboration these afford.

Personal factors and group creativity characteristics: A correlational meta-analysis [stage 1]

Previous research has investigated the relationship between personal factors and group creativity characteristics. On one side, they showed that individual differences play a role in group and team creativity. On the other side, they showed that group creativity activities have different characteristics, leading to numerous ways to assess effectiveness of creative activity. Nonetheless, no meta-analysis was performed on the relationship between the characteristics of the creative activity and individual differences. In this Registered Report, we conducted a meta-analysis (k = [XXX; number of studies/datasets]) on the relationship between personal factors and group creative activities characteristics (N = [XXXX]). We found [weak-to-no / weak / weak-to-medium / medium / medium-to-strong / strong] support for a [positive / negative] correlation between personal factors and creativity activities characteristics, r = X.XX, 95% CI [X.XX, X.XX]. We tested several moderators of the relationship, including [moderators]. Our analysis indicated that the relationship is [stronger / weaker] [moderators, e.g., in males than in females]. Data and analysis can be found in: https://osf.io/xwph9/?view_only=335369af22dc425096b1149cea66426a

Membership change, idea generation, and group creativity: A motivated information processing perspective

Membership change has been found to stimulate collective idea generation but to not always benefit group creativity—the generation of final outcomes that are novel and useful. Based on motivated information processing theory, we propose that membership change challenges group members to generate more ideas, but that this only contributes to group creativity when members have high levels of prosocial motivation and are willing to process and integrate each other’s ideas. In a laboratory study of 56 student groups, we found that incremental, but not radical, idea generation mediated the positive effect of membership change on group creativity, and only when group members were prosocially motivated. The present study points to different roles of incremental versus radical ideas and underscores the importance of accounting for prosocial motivation in groups for reaping the benefits of membership change in relation to group creativity.