Contemplating Compilations: An Invitation to … Page 1 of 20 PRINTED FROM OXFORD HANDBOOKS ONLINE (www.oxfordhandbooks.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2015. All Rights Reserved. Under the terms of the licence agreement, an individual user may print out a PDF of a single chapter of a title in Oxford Handbooks Online for personal use (for details see Privacy Policy). Subscriber: OUP-Reference Gratis Access; date: 11 February 2017 Abstract and Keywords Through this chapter the crafting of compilations is explored as an act, art, and expression of music making, illuminating the listeners’ and compilers’ positions as cocreators of meaning, function, and purpose. Music becomes repositioned and repurposed as found or sound objects that pass through Gaston Bachelard’s triptych of resonance, repercussion, and reverberations, a process of music speaking to so as to speak for individuals’ deeply personal and significantly meaningful experiences. The chapter addresses the question, “What motivates someone to partake in this personally meaningful, vulnerable, and artistic endeavor?” Using Josef Pieper’s conceptions of leisure as celebration, an orientation toward the wonderful, and an act of affirmation, the chapter concludes that the creation and crafting of compilations (e.g., mix tape) affords poetic spaces for connection, enchantment, felt-aliveness, or what Max van Manen called an “incantative, evocative speaking, a primal telling, [whose] aim [is] to involve the voice in an original singing of the world.” Keywords: compilations, mix tape, resonation, repercussion, reverberation, celebration, affirmation, Pieper, Bachelard Steep in the Sauce It makes its own sauce. Zappa (1979) IT’s interesting to consider moments in my life where words such as Zappa’s, spoken just loud enough to be caught by a microphone in a recording studio but not necessarily Contemplating Compilations: An Invitation to … Joseph Pate and Brian Kumm The Oxford Handbook of Music Making and Leisure Edited by Roger Mantie and Gareth Dylan Smith Print Publication Date: Feb 2017 Subject: Music, Music Education Online Publication Date: Jan 2017 DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190244705.013.6 1 Oxford Handbooks Online