The New Lexicon I.
Philosophy of Music Composition [research group]
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PARTICIPANT VALUE
The New Lexicon offers composers a sustained framework in which to deepen both the artistic and intellectual dimensions of their practices. Over several months, participants can move beyond the compressed exchange of a single workshop and develop questions through presentation, response, revision, and public articulation.
The programme enables participants to:
– clarify the concepts and philosophical commitments implicit in their compositional decisions;
– advance compositions, texts, and artistic research projects through substantive critical feedback;
– develop more precise vocabularies for presenting, contextualising, and evaluating their work;
– test artistic and theoretical propositions within an international research community;
– encounter methodologies, aesthetic positions, and conceptual traditions beyond their usual fields of reference;
– situate their practices within wider historical, philosophical, technological, institutional, and political debates;
– establish intellectual relationships and formulate new trajectories for artistic and research development.
This broader contextualisation is not intended to displace the specificity of compositional work. It enables composers to understand more clearly how their practices participate in, resist, or transform the conditions around them.
The residency may generate new artistic directions, research questions, presentation formats, and intellectual relationships. It may provide a basis for future collaborations, publications, lectures, and research projects extending beyond the residency’s formal duration. It supports work capable of circulating across compositional, academic, curatorial, and public contexts without requiring those contexts to become identical. The programme’s value lies not in delivering a single model of success, but in enabling participants to formulate stronger questions, make more deliberate decisions, and communicate the significance of their practices with greater precision.
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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