One of the things she used to do in art classes, she used to get a child to paint a picture, then, cut it into two pieces, each piece was given to two new kids, who would be asked to paint a picture influenced by what was on the first two pictures, and so it would continue, until there were a couple of hundred pictures, which would all be glued on the wall to make one big picture.
My partner showed me a photo she'd taken at the time, of one of these "collages" I can honestly say it blew me away, totally, it had a depth and maturity to it that went beyond, just beyond, and the detail was incredible, and you would never, ever think it was done by primary school kids.
I’m sure this technique has been used in music, I know Brian Eno has done "similar" things in the studio with other musicians, getting them to make music that would only be used to get ideas from, or to respond to, but it wouldn’t actually be used on the finished track.
I’m wondering how to make a piece of music using my partners process, I guess we could make musical sketches, and pass them backwards and forwards between us, each time writhing a new piece based on what we’ve both done.
But that wouldn’t work the same way as the picture, the picture had all of the previous elements in it, it had a continuity of some sort, music would be different, if you stitched all of our pieces together at the end it would end up as an abstract musical collage, and it may not hold together in the same way.
