ABSTRACT
This chapter explores musical interactivity as a form of "participatory sense-making". It introduces the notions of participatory sense-making and mutual incorporation in the context of the embodied and enactive frameworks. The chapter also explore these two concepts through the lenses of musical agency and interactivity. In social contexts, sense-making is participatory because social dynamics such as coordination and interaction may affect individual sense-making. The chapter discusses the main implications emerging within the broader context of musical research and make predictions for further empirical corroborations. From a phenomenological perspective, the way in which musicians play together may be best understood as 'mutual incorporation'. In joint musical practices, sense-making is always participatory in a strong sense, because both the object and the dynamical process shaping it are possible only through the systematic and recursive influence of each individual on another.
