precept.concept.percept XIX.
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RESIDENCY PROGRAM FOR COMPOSERS, PERFORMERS, and ENSEMBLES
[October 2026 – June 2027]
An international residency for composers, performers, and ensembles to collaboratively develop, interpret, perform, and present new works.
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PROGRAM AT A GLANCE
Program period: October 2026–June 2027
Format: Four online workshops followed by an on-site residency
On-site location: Bled, Slovenia (EU)
Final presentation: Seventh Bled Contemporary Music Week
Application deadline: September 10, 2026
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FORMAT
Stage I. | October 5-6, 2026
- 2 online workshops
- Presentation and exchange of participants’ artistic practices
- Initial preparation for the creation and performance of new works
- Q&A
Stage II. | December 21-22, 2026
- 2 Online workshops
- Score reading, analysis, and critical reflection on the composed works
- Preparation for the subsequent residency and performances at the festival
- Q&A
Stage III. | June 14-25, 2027
- On-site residency at the seventh Bled Contemporary Music Week in Bled, Slovenia
- Artistic development, rehearsals, and performances
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ABOUT THE RESIDENCY
precept.concept.percept XIX. is an international, process-oriented residency dedicated to the collaborative development, interpretation, and public presentation of new music. It brings together composers, performers, and ensembles within a sustained artistic framework extending from the initial articulation of participants’ practices to the rehearsal and performance of new works at the seventh Bled Contemporary Music Week in Bled, Slovenia (EU).
The program unfolds through four online workshops and a concluding on-site residency. This extended structure provides participants with the time and continuity required to develop musical ideas through presentation, discussion, score reading, analysis, interpretative experimentation, rehearsal, revision, and critical reflection.
Composers are invited to create new works or substantially develop existing compositions and project frameworks. Performers and ensembles engage directly with these works, contributing their embodied, technical, interpretative, and practical knowledge throughout the creative process. The residency therefore understands composition and performance not as isolated or sequential activities, but as interdependent modes of artistic inquiry.
Rather than organizing the production of new music as a linear transfer from a completed score to its execution, precept.concept.percept establishes a reciprocal process in which compositional and interpretative decisions remain open to dialogue. Scores, sounds, techniques, rehearsal methods, and performance conditions are examined collectively as elements of a continuously developing artistic situation.
Through this structure, participants investigate how musical ideas are transformed through collaboration; how compositional propositions encounter the material and embodied realities of performance; how interpretative knowledge can inform the formation of a work; and how rehearsal can function not only as preparation, but as a site of discovery, analysis, and knowledge production.
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MENTORS
Dr. Alastair White [composition]
Urban Megušar, Double M.Mus. [performance]
Dr. Niki Zohdi [production]
Dr. Dré A. Hočevar [research and development]
COORDINATOR
Brina Kren
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APPLICATION
The precept.concept.percept 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