This essay explores music’s value as a meaningful modality of self-expression that makes possible dialogic relationships with implications for the conduct of qualitative inquiry. To perform music’s dialogic contours, I draw from my experiences making music with members of a non-profit drop-in center for persons living with mental illness. Specifically, I share two vignettes that perform autoethnographically the musical relationship that unfolded between one member, Jordan, and myself. Through our act of making music together, we were able to dwell in the spirit of edifying individuation and edifying participation that created the possibility for the outward sharing of consequential life experiences. Finally, the implications of music’s capacity to voice embodied meanings for qualitative inquiry are discussed.
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