The New Lexicon I.
Philosophy of Music Performance [research group]
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WORKING METHOD
The residency is organized around sustained exchange rather than one-directional instruction. Participants bring projects already situated within particular histories, techniques, repertoires, communities, and questions. The group creates the conditions needed to examine those projects with rigor, generosity, and conceptual precision.
Presentation and discussion may engage live or recorded performances, rehearsals, annotated scores, interpretive sketches, improvisations, installations, software, diagrams, essays, lectures, portfolios, documentation, or hybrid forms. No repertoire, medium, or performance model is treated as the default. Materials are considered according to the questions and understandings they enable.
Participants will be encouraged to define their terms, identify the assumptions informing their decisions, clarify the relation between conceptual propositions and performative procedures, and distinguish artistic aims from the means through which those aims are pursued. Discussion will attend not only to what a performance intends to communicate, but also to how its premises are embodied in sound, gesture, timing, technique, interaction, modes of presentation, and conditions of reception.
Criticality is understood as a constructive practice. Feedback should not merely affirm a project or measure it against an external stylistic norm. It should help reveal the consequences of its choices, identify tensions between claims and procedures, locate unexamined assumptions, and open viable paths for development. Participants will be asked to respond to others with the same seriousness they expect for their own work.
The inquiry is intentionally plural. Its purpose is not to establish interpretive consensus, prescribe adherence to a particular philosophical tradition, or subordinate performance to theoretical explanation. Productive disagreement, methodological difference, and conceptual tension are necessary conditions of collective research. The programme seeks a discourse in which incompatible positions can be stated clearly, examined fairly, and developed through encounter.
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The New Lexicon program is produced by .abeceda Institute
.abeceda [Institute for Research in Art, Critical Thought and Philosophy], a public-benefit NGO and non-profit organisation dedicated to advancing contemporary artistic practices and critical inquiry. Through its innovative programmes, .abeceda has gained international recognition as one of the leading platforms for contemporary music and artistic research in the Adriatic region and across Europe: www.abeceda.io