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CENTRAL QUESTIONS

 

The residency can sustain focused inquiry into questions including:

 

– How does embodied knowledge transform what scores, instruments, objects, repertoires, traditions, and institutions make possible?

– Which forms of knowledge emerge through listening, rehearsal, interpretation, documentation, and performance?

– How do sources mediate authority, responsibility, and possibility?

– How do instruments, objects, bodies, technologies, and spaces condition percussion thought?

– When can material resistance, technical difficulty, or failure become generative conditions of artistic development?

– How can rehearsal operate as critical practice and analytical method?

– How do soloists and ensembles collectively negotiate authority, agency, and responsibility?

– How can performance remain open to change while retaining formal and conceptual coherence sufficient for intelligibility?

– How do collective processes transform identities, methods, assumptions, responsibilities, and relations among artists?

– What musical knowledge emerges through the articulation of source, substance, and structure within situated percussion practice?

 

These questions are neither exhaustive nor prescriptive. They delineate the interpretative, historical, methodological, epistemological, and ethical inquiries that the residency’s practice is designed to sustain.