This article describes the creative process and output resulting from the research project “Development of hearing-musical consciousness for meaning-making” that set out a group experiment intended to weigh the musical knowledge by emphasizing the hearing development rather than the writing. To that end, a group of students from the music study program in the Universidad de Cundinamarca was used to design and implement strategies of musical meaning-making based on their hearing. Improvisation was chosen as the exploration tool in the creative exercises. In addition, inspiration in these activities was developed based on three components: music-image, music-narrative and music-sensing. Based on the concept monomyth by Joseph Campbell, a story was created orally, in an improvised and collective way, together with a map of emotions and situations matching the story and serving as an inspiration for their improvisations, hearing analysis and generation of musical ideas from the transcription. All this allowed producing a musical work with a collective origin