The New Lexicon I.
Philosophy of Music Culture [research group]
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WORKING METHOD
The residency is organized around sustained exchange rather than one-directional instruction. Participants bring projects situated within particular communities, disciplines, histories, and ethical relations. The group creates conditions in which those projects can be examined with rigor, generosity, attentiveness, and conceptual precision.
Presentation and discussion may engage performances, recordings, interviews, archives, fieldwork, scores, films, installations, software, curatorial proposals, essays, lectures, documentation, or hybrid forms. Materials are considered according to the questions they raise, the relations they establish, and the kinds of knowledge they make possible.
Participants will be encouraged to define their terms, identify the assumptions informing their methods, clarify their own position in relation to the people and practices they address, and distinguish interpretive claims from the evidence and encounters through which those claims are formed. Discussion will attend not only to what a project intends to communicate, but also to how its premises are embodied in its procedures, forms of representation, modes of collaboration, and conditions of reception.
Criticality is understood as a constructive and responsible practice. Feedback should not merely affirm a project or measure it against an external disciplinary norm. It should reveal the consequences of its choices, identify tensions between claims and methods, locate unexamined assumptions, and open viable paths for development. Participants will be asked to respond to others with the same seriousness and care they expect for their own work.
The inquiry is intentionally plural. Its purpose is not to establish cultural consensus, prescribe adherence to one philosophical tradition, or subordinate artistic practice to academic explanation. Productive disagreement, methodological difference, and conceptual tension are necessary conditions of collective research. The programme seeks a discourse in which incompatible positions can be stated clearly, examined fairly, and revised through encounter.
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WHY THE NEW LEXICON?
CENTRAL QUESTIONS
WORKING METHOD
PARTICIPANT VALUE
WHO THE PROGRAMME ADDRESSES
TOWARDS MULTIPLE PHILOSOPHIES OF MUSIC CULTURE
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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