The New Symposium
INTERNATIONAL FORUM AND RESIDENCY PROGRAM
[for composers, performers, musicologists, researchers, pedagogues, producers, and other practitioners engaged in the field of music and art]
[2026]
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As a participant musicologist, you will:
— Join a residency program for music practitioners, theorists, and researchers.
— Present your musicological work (e.g. theory, research, questions) in weekly online sessions, receiving feedback from peers.
— Engage in studies through dialogue with fellow participants, gain new perspectives on musicology, and expand your field overview.
— Develop your work through practice, experimentation, dialogue, and analysis with fellow participants at Bled Contemporary Music Week.
— Attend the festival’s symposia, lectures, and concerts, while building an international network of colleagues.
— Publish your work in the online research publication Verso Doxa, issued annually by .abeceda Institute (optional)
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— Possible dispositions for beginner musicologists include themes such as: grounding musicological work in direct musical experience and practice, exploring practical and practitioner-oriented musicology, forming an overview of the humanities and adjacent disciplines, developing theoretical and research approaches, and connecting with performers, composers, and other practitioners.
— Possible dispositions for advanced musicologists include themes such as: deepening practice-rooted inquiry, conducting focused case studies, cultivating language, dialogue, and discourse, recognising the roles and responsibilities of musicology within the field, pursuing long-term research, and refining analytical, philosophical, and writing methods for presenting one’s work.