praelocutio.exordium.prolusio I.

 

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RESIDENCY PROGRAM FOR EXPERIMENTALISTS, SOUND ARTISTS, MAKERS, and TECHNOLOGISTS

[September 2026 - June 2027]

 

GROUNDING, COMPOSITION OF MIND, AND [EMANCIPATORY PRACTICES]

 

An international residency for individuals and collectives seeking to develop, test, perform, present, and critically examine works and propositions that extend beyond established musical paradigms.

 

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PROGRAM AT A GLANCE

 

Residency period: September 2026–June 2027

Preparatory seminars: September-December 2026

Format: Four online seminars followed by an on-site residency period in Bled, including open rehearsal and development space and culminating in one week of public presentations.

On-site location: Bled, Slovenia (EU)

Final presentation: Seventh Bled Contemporary Music Week

Application deadline: September 15, 2026

 

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FORMAT

 

Stage I. | September 28, 29, 2026

- 2 online seminars

- Individual participants and collectives present their practices and initiate the development of works for public presentation

- Q&A

 

Stage II. | November 30, December 1, 2026

- 2 online seminars

- Development, analysis, and pre-production of new works and ideas

- Preparation for the subsequent one-week residency at the festival

- Q&A

 

Stage III. | June 14-25, 2027

- Realization, testing, and public presentation of new works and prototypes at the seventh Bled Contemporary Music Week in Bled, Slovenia

 

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ABOUT THE RESIDENCY

 

praelocutio.exordium.prolusio I. is an international, process-oriented residency for experimentalists, sound artists, makers, technologists, interdisciplinary practitioners, and collectives. It supports works that move across or beyond established categories of music, sound, performance, installation, research, and technological practice through development, testing, realization, public presentation, and critical articulation.

 

The residency unfolds through four online seminars and a concluding on-site residency period at the seventh Bled Contemporary Music Week in Bled, Slovenia (EU), including open rehearsal and development space and culminating in one week of public presentations.

 

Its extended structure connects the initial formulation of an artistic proposition with its material, technical, spatial, performative, institutional, and public realization. Participants may enter with an emerging idea, an existing work requiring substantial development, a prototype, a system, a research process, or an intentionally unresolved project.

 

Projects may include performances, installations, sonic environments, laboratories, exhibitions, instruments, interfaces, software, participatory situations, technological interventions, speculative devices, hybrid publications, or other experimental formats. The program prescribes neither medium nor outcome; it asks whether a practice can benefit from sustained inquiry, collective testing, critical exchange, and public realization.

 

Participants contextualize their practices, examine the assumptions and infrastructures on which their projects depend, test materials and systems, receive feedback from peers and mentors, and refine the relation between concept and realization. Temporary ensembles and working groups may form where projects require shared expertise, distributed authorship, or collaborative activation.

 

Artistic development is understood not as the efficient conversion of an idea into a finished product, but as a recursive process in which propositions are modified by their conditions of production. Materials resist; technologies introduce affordances and limits; bodies generate situated knowledge; spaces alter perception; collaborators redistribute agency; and publics exceed authorial control. These encounters are constitutive dimensions of the work.

 

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MENTORS

 

Dr. Alastair White 

Urban Megušar, Double M.Mus.

Dr. Niki Zohdi

Dr. Dré A. Hočevar 

 

 

COORDINATOR

 

Brina Kren