The New Lexicon I.
Philosophy of Musical Arts [research group]
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WORKING METHOD
The residency is organized around sustained exchange rather than one-directional instruction. Participants bring practices and projects situated within particular histories, techniques, communities, and questions. The group’s task is to create conditions under which those projects can be examined with rigour, generosity, openness, and conceptual precision.
Presentation and discussion may engage scores, sketches, recordings, live or documented performances, improvisations, installations, instruments, software, diagrams, essays, lectures, curatorial frameworks, portfolios, field materials, or hybrid forms. No medium is treated as the default form of artistic evidence. Materials are considered according to the questions they raise and the understanding they make possible.
Participants will define terms, identify assumptions informing decisions, clarify relations between conceptual propositions and artistic procedures, and distinguish aims from the means used to pursue them. Discussion will attend not only to what a project intends to communicate, but also to how its premises are embodied in materials, processes, roles, forms of presentation, institutional conditions, and modes of reception.
Criticality is understood as constructive practice. Feedback should not merely affirm a project or measure it against an external norm. It should reveal the consequences of choices, identify tensions between claims and procedures, locate unexamined assumptions, and open viable paths for development. 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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PROGRAMME FORMAT
RESEARCH PREMISE
WHY THE NEW LEXICON?
CENTRAL QUESTIONS
WORKING METHOD
PARTICIPANT VALUE
WHO THE PROGRAMME ADDRESSES
TOWARDS MULTIPLE PHILOSOPHIES OF MUSICAL ARTS
APPLICATION
APPLICATION FORM AND
PARTICIPATION FEES
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