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WHO THE RESIDENCY IS FOR

 

The open call is addressed to:

– Percussionists and ensembles seeking to articulate, interrogate, and systematically develop their practices through sustained, practice-led inquiry and research

– Solo percussionists engaging historical repertoires, contemporary music, experimental performance, artistic research, and performance-based knowledge production

– Percussion ensembles pursuing methodological development through international exchange, rigorous critical reflection, documentation, and diverse modes of public presentation

 

The residency welcomes established, emerging, and project-based percussionists and ensembles working across conventional, expanded, experimental, interdisciplinary, or hybrid practices, provided that their proposed inquiry can be developed through the program’s sustained, reflective, and practice-led structure.

 

Projects may enter the residency at different stages. Applicants may propose an interpretative problem, a repertoire-centered inquiry, a developing performance, an existing realization requiring reconsideration, or a broader artistic research framework. Materials may include specialized techniques, instrument collections, constructed or found objects, technologies, recordings, writings, documentation, or questions within contemporary percussion practice.

 

The format requires sustained engagement across both online and on-site stages. Participants should be prepared to:

– Critically articulate and contextualize their practices

– Share performances, recordings, scores, texts, documentation, and working materials

– Engage rigorously and constructively with other participants’ practices

– Offer and receive precise artistic and critical feedback

– Discuss interpretative, historical, epistemological, and methodological questions

– Participate in listening, analysis, experimentation, rehearsal, documentation, and reflection

– Remain responsive to project transformation through sustained collective inquiry

– Contribute to a shared environment grounded in attentiveness, reciprocity, rigor, care, and responsibility

 

The program is suited to artists who understand performance not merely as repertoire realization, but as an epistemic and creative practice capable of transforming methods, material relations, interpretative positions, collective responsibilities, and musical outcomes.