.abeceda [New Music Academy] III.

 

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ADVANCED NOTATION PARADIGMS PROGRAMME

[November 2026 – June 2027]

 

Develop notation as an active compositional and performative system. Explore graphic, proportional, animated, digital, open-form, rule-based, or hybrid approaches that organise sound, action, interpretation, coordination, and agency.

 

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DATES

 

November 16, 17, 2026: Online seminars

January 1, 2026: Score and/or other materials submission

June 14–18, 2027: 5-day intensive rehearsal period

June 19–25, 2027: Premieres at Bled Contemporary Music Week

 

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ABOUT THE RESIDENCY

 

The .abeceda [New Music Academy] supports composers for whom notation is a compositional and performative system, valued for its specificity rather than its novelty: a means of organising sound, time, action, interaction, and interpretation in performance.

 

Each selected composer develops one work for one formation: solo, string quartet, chamber ensemble, symphony orchestra, or choir. Online sessions examine how graphic, proportional, open-form, rule-based, animated, digital, or hybrid approaches organise information. Rehearsal tests how legibility, precision, productive ambiguity, and performer agency shape time, action, interpretation, and sound within concrete performance.

 

Stage I establishes the project’s artistic, notational, instrumental, and practical foundations. In rehearsals, scores and systems are tested in sound; materials, rules, interfaces, methods, form, and interpretation are examined, revised, and realised through collaboration with performers.