A Journey of Artistic Discovery Across Europe
[conspicuum.infra .x] I. [OPEN CALL] for PERCUSSIONISTS AND PERCUSSION ENSEMBLES
.abeceda Institute [Institute for research in art, critical thought, and philos…
Deadline
Participation fee
Individual applicants:– 400 EUR [early application - submitted and confirmed within the first three days following the opening of the call – before August 30]
– 500 EUR [students]
– 600 EUR [standard application]
– 700 EUR [payment plan in 2 installments]
Ensemble application:
– 400 EUR per ensemble member
Auditors:
– 150 EUR
[conspicuum.infra .x] I.
RESIDENCY PROGRAM for PERCUSSIONISTS AND PERCUSSION ENSEMBLES
[2026/2027]
SOURCE, SUBSTANCE, AND STRUCTURE
Performance as Musical Knowledge: Genealogies and Futures
An international residency investigating the historical foundations and future trajectories of percussion and percussion ensemble performance.
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FORMAT:
Stage I. | October 2026
- 2 online seminars
- Participants present their artistic practices, performance methodologies and works in progress
- Q&A
Stage II. | December 2026
- 2 online seminars
- Critical inquiry and practice-led experimentation centered on SOURCE, SUBSTANCE, AND STRUCTURE: Performance as Musical Knowledge
- Participants develop performances, research processes, and methodologies through critical reflection and exchange
- Q&A
Stage III. | June 2027
- Performances, lecture-performances, percussion laboratories, and research presentations at the seventh Bled Contemporary Music Week in Bled, Slovenia
The [conspicuum.infra .x] residency approaches percussion and percussion ensemble performance as historically situated forms of musical knowledge. It brings together an international cohort of percussionists and ensembles to investigate how embodied techniques, memory, repertoires, instruments, technologies and collective relations enter performance and shape musical form.
The program is structured around three interdependent fields of inquiry. SOURCE concerns the conditions, inheritances, and resources from which percussion performance emerges. SUBSTANCE examines its material, embodied, sonic, and perceptual constitution. STRUCTURE traces the processes through which musical relations acquire coherence, generate form, and transform over time.
Throughout the online sessions, participants develop performances, recordings, artistic research, writing, and experimental formats. Sustained exchange with peers and mentors enables them to articulate their methodologies, critically examine underlying assumptions, and situate their practices in relation to historical lineages and future-oriented experimentation.
The residency culminates at the seventh Bled Contemporary Music Week in Bled, Slovenia, EU, where participants present their work through performances, lecture-performances, interpretative laboratories, and research presentations. The program advances percussion performance as both an artistic practice and a mode of inquiry through experimentation, critical reflection, documentation, international exchange, and collaboration.
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APPLY by September 15, 2026
More information: https://www.conspicuum-infra.com/
Deadline
Participation fee
Individual applicants:– 400 EUR [early application - submitted and confirmed within the first three days following the opening of the call – before August 30]
– 500 EUR [students]
– 600 EUR [standard application]
– 700 EUR [payment plan in 2 installments]
Ensemble application:
– 400 EUR per ensemble member
Auditors:
– 150 EUR