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PROGRAM STRUCTURE

 

Stage I. | October 2026

Two Online Seminars

 

Stage I establishes the artistic and discursive foundations of the residency.

 

Participants present practices, methodologies, selected works, current projects, and central questions through demonstrations, recordings, scores, charts, texts, archives, diagrams, or rehearsal documentation.

 

The emphasis is on articulation and contextualization. Participants identify the genealogies, procedures, institutional conditions, sonic materials, ensemble structures, and assumptions informing their work. SOURCE, SUBSTANCE, AND STRUCTURE become shared analytical fields.

 

Each presentation is followed by discussion and Q&A. The objective is to clarify how key terms function across practices, not impose a uniform vocabulary. By the end of Stage I, participants identify questions requiring research, practical testing, or methodological development and begin shaping a public presentation.

 

Stage I includes:

– two online seminars;

– presentation of artistic practices and methodologies;

– introduction of selected works and current projects;

– discussion of historical, technical, aesthetic, and institutional contexts;

– identification of central artistic and research questions;

– peer and mentor feedback;

– Q&A.

 

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Stage II. | December 2026

Two Online Seminars

 

Stage II centers on critical inquiry and experimentation.

 

Participants return with revised questions, developed materials, recordings, scores, charts, studies, rehearsal documentation, archival findings, or compositional propositions.

 

Practice functions as investigation. Participants may vary a rhythmic procedure, compare modes of interaction, test notation against aural instruction, reorganize space, reconstruct a historical technique, examine repertoire as social memory, or analyze technological mediation.

 

Collective listening addresses timbre, articulation, intonation, groove, balance, form, duration, density, gesture, spatialization, ensemble behavior, and coherence. Participants distinguish observation, interpretation, evaluation, and preference.

 

Stage II examines what documentation should preserve, which medium is adequate, what each format excludes, and how consent, attribution, authorship, and context are addressed. Each project concludes with a provisional format for Bled and defined artistic, technical, spatial, practical, and logistical requirements.

 

Stage II includes:

– two online seminars;

– presentation of developed project materials;

– critical inquiry into SOURCE, SUBSTANCE, AND STRUCTURE;

– improvisational and ensemble experimentation;

– collective listening and analysis;

– peer and mentor critique;

– development of documentation and public presentation formats;

– preparation for the on-site residency;

– Q&A.

 

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Stage III. | June 2027

On-Site Residency at the Seventh Bled Contemporary Music Week

 

The final stage takes place in Bled.

 

Participants bring their projects into relation with the festival’s acoustic, spatial, technological, embodied, interpersonal, and public conditions. The on-site residency remains an active phase of inquiry, not the execution of decisions made in advance.

 

Projects may require rehearsal, acoustic testing, spatial reconfiguration, technical adjustment, revised duration, clarified notation, refined improvisational materials, or reconsidered audience relations.

 

Public formats may include performances, lecture-performances, improvisation laboratories, artistic research, demonstrations, recordings, documentation, and hybrid forms. Presentation communicates not only results, but relations among source, substance, structure, history, and method.

 

Stage III includes:

– on-site residency in Bled;

– individual and collective rehearsals;

– acoustic, spatial, technical, and performative testing;

– refinement and realization of participating projects;

– public performances and lecture-performances;

– improvisation laboratories and artistic research presentations;

– public discussion and international exchange.