When music makers talk about collaboration, the idea of being co-present or ‘face to face’ is sometimes held up as a standard, if not an ideal. This, they say, is how it should be – humans in a room, looking each other in the eye, all hands on deck, making a thing together. But it’s not always possible or even desirable to be in the same room as the people we want to collaborate with.

Luckily, there are more ways than ever to share ideas and work together with other music makers, wherever they happen to be in the world. At this year’s edition of Loop Create, we’ll take a closer look at the ways people are making music together today; pooling their talents and ideas in collaborations, cooperating with each other to do things they couldn’t do on their own, and adding their voices to collective forms of creation.