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MODES OF WORK

 

The program integrates mutually reinforcing modes of artistic and critical activity.

 

Artistic presentation and contextualization

Participants present their practices, methodologies, performances, and current projects. Presentation functions as an act of articulation through which working processes, artistic premises, historical positions, and unresolved questions become available for collective examination.

 

Practice-led development

Participating artists engage in sustained, project-centered exchange. This may involve discussion, listening, comparative analysis, rehearsal, testing, revision, interpretative experimentation, technical consultation, and the explicit, deliberate negotiation of collective artistic decisions.

 

Source inquiry and analysis

Scores, editions, manuscripts, treatises, and related materials are examined as resources and propositions for action. Analysis may address provenance, mediation, transmission, notation, temporality, timbre, technique, ensemble relations, interpretative possibilities, and the performative production of form.

 

Interpretative inquiry

Participants investigate how works become realizable without reducing interpretation to compliance with inherited instructions. Attention is directed toward judgment, embodiment, listening, memory, collective agency, responsiveness, and the production of musical meaning through situated performance.

 

Critical reflection

Participants examine the assumptions, values, methods, and contexts that organize their practices. Reflection addresses individual projects, ensemble relations, rehearsal processes, and the residency’s conceptual and institutional framework.

 

Rehearsal as epistemic practice

Rehearsal is approached as a site and method of artistic inquiry. It discloses how repertoire functions in practice, how materials behave under performative conditions, and how embodied, interpretative, relational, and structural decisions interact dynamically over time.

 

Public presentation

Projects are presented at the seventh Bled Contemporary Music Week. Public presentation situates them within a broader artistic and discursive context while providing a provisional culmination for the residency’s extended processes of inquiry and development.