The report reflects upon a collaborative project undertaken with a young and educated member of the rural community in an attempt to redefine ways of safeguarding the Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH). The project was initially to audio-visually document the Bhojpuri folk songs that were to be sung by women during the initiation ceremony of Rahul Tiwari which took place in April 2014 at Bhadwar village in Bihar (India) and to make a film which can create the sonic landscape of the event. Strong friendships developed during the fieldwork which led me to think of ways we can together create a kind of shared knowledge and not just limit this project by creating an end product - the film.