infra.norma.meta I.

 

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WHY PARTICIPATE?

 

infra.norma.meta I. offers a distinctive context for conductors who wish to examine and develop the full ecology of their practice.

 

The residency provides:

– An extended development period rather than a single short-term workshop

– A structured progression from artistic proposition to public performance

– Sustained exchange with conductors working across different contexts and practices

– Time for score reading, analysis, research, listening, planning, testing, and revision

– A framework connecting interpretation to infrastructure, convention, and reflexive practice

– Space to develop programs, rehearsal strategies, and production models in parallel

– Critical examination of authority, leadership, responsibility, and collaboration

– Rehearsal understood as an artistic and knowledge-producing process

– Opportunities to test concepts under concrete ensemble and production conditions

– Public presentation within the seventh Bled Contemporary Music Week

– Participation in an international community of contemporary music practitioners

– The possibility of forming sustained artistic and professional relationships

 

The program is intended for conductors who seek not only to prepare and deliver persuasive performances, but also to investigate how musical projects are produced through relations among scores, ideas, bodies, gestures, musicians, technologies, spaces, institutions, resources, and publics.

 

It is designed for practitioners who understand that artistic authority becomes most consequential when it is accompanied by analytical rigor, responsive listening, institutional awareness, communicative precision, and responsibility toward the collective conditions of musical work.