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MODES OF WORK

 

The program integrates interdependent modes of artistic, critical, and research activity.

 

Artistic presentation and contextualization

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

 

Practice-led development

Percussionists and ensembles engage in sustained, project-centered exchange involving discussion, close listening, instrument testing, setup design, analysis, rehearsal, revision, interpretative experimentation, technical consultation, and the negotiation of artistic decisions.

 

Source inquiry and analysis

Scores, notations, recordings, oral accounts, instruments, objects, technologies, and documents are examined as sources and propositions for action. Analysis may address provenance, transmission, instrumentality, temporality, timbre, technique, resistance, spatial relations, affordances, and the production of form.

 

Interpretative inquiry

Participants investigate how practices become realizable without reducing interpretation to compliance with inherited instructions. Attention centers on judgment, embodiment, listening, memory, agency, responsiveness, and the situated production of musical meaning through concrete performance.

 

Critical reflection

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

 

Rehearsal as epistemic practice

Rehearsal is approached as a method of artistic inquiry. It reveals how repertoires, instruments, objects, and technologies function in practice; how materials behave under performative conditions; and how embodied, interpretative, relational, and structural decisions interact over time.

 

Public presentation

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