The New Lexicon I.
Philosophy of Musical Ideas [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 practices, repertoires, histories, methods, and questions. The task of the group is to create conditions under which those projects can be examined with rigor, generosity, curiosity, and conceptual precision.
Participants will be encouraged to define their terms, identify assumptions informing their interpretations, clarify the relation between concepts and musical evidence, and distinguish what a project demonstrates from what it proposes or speculates. Discussion will attend not only to declared intentions, but also to how ideas are embodied in sound, action, notation, argument, method, and conditions of reception.
Criticality is understood as constructive practice. Feedback should not merely affirm a project or measure it against an external stylistic or disciplinary norm. It should help reveal the consequences of its claims, identify tensions between concepts and examples, 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 stylistic consensus, prescribe adherence to one philosophical tradition, or subordinate musical experience to theoretical explanation. Productive disagreement, methodological difference, and conceptual tension are necessary conditions of collective research. The programme seeks a discourse in which contrasting 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 IDEAS
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