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WHO THE RESIDENCY IS FOR

 

The open call is addressed to:

 

– Symphonic orchestra performers seeking to develop their practices through sustained experimentation, historical inquiry, critical reflection, and public presentation

– Principal, section, and tutti players interested in collective methodologies, interpretative agency, rehearsal processes, and the articulation of orchestral knowledge

– Instrumentalists and performer-researchers whose work intersects with orchestral practice, interpretation, pedagogy, historiography, writing, curation, technology, philosophy, ecology, or artistic leadership

 

The residency welcomes historical, modern, contemporary, experimental, electroacoustic, interdisciplinary, and hybrid practices. It is open both to musicians working within established orchestral traditions and to those critically reconfiguring the orchestra as institution, apparatus, or category. Proposed inquiries must be suitable for sustained online exchange and an on-site public program.

 

Projects may enter at different stages: as established interpretative practices requiring deeper articulation, repertoire-based investigations, works in progress, research processes, technological or notational systems, rehearsal methodologies, or questions examined through orchestral performance.

 

Participants should be prepared to:

– Present and contextualize their artistic practices with precision

– Share performances, recordings, scores, editions, texts, diagrams, technologies, or other working materials

– Engage critically and constructively with the work of other participants

– Offer and receive specific artistic, technical, methodological, and historical feedback

– Participate in collective listening, analysis, simulation, experimentation, and discussion

– Examine the assumptions, limits, and genealogies of their methods

– Remain responsive to the transformation of projects through exchange

– Contribute to a working environment based on attentiveness, reciprocity, and professional responsibility

 

The program is particularly suited to musicians who understand orchestral performance not merely as the execution of repertoire, but as a practice capable of producing musical, social, institutional, and historical knowledge.