Connecting the dots: Designing a unifying model for traditional and contemporary music performance praxis.

For a long time, the perfect execution of a score was the ultimate goal for classical performing musicians.
Nowadays, they increasingly face changing expectations of new settings (cultural, technological...), in new roles
(creator, executor ...) using new skills (digital, interartistic...); but these are difficult to integrate into the traditional
métier. Musicians and institutions search for structural solutions, adapted to today’s reality but with respect for
tradition.
With this research project, I aim to fundamentally connect traditional musical métier with these challenges by
designing a unifying model for musical praxis, based on practice led research in a set of artistic (-pedagogical)
projects in non-traditional settings with multiple agents. How, what and why do artists (implicitely) negotiate in
their sensemaking practices? By participatively and inductively searching for answers, artistic choices, actions and
implications are explicited and connected to mutual expectations in terms of methods, practices and outcomes. The
investigation of different projects allows to increasingly delineate the parameters and processes of the artistic
interactions, and to process the results into a new model.
Ultimately, I aim to answer the question: What model(s) of musical praxis that reconcile(s) traditional
performative practice and métier with contemporary requirements can be designed by investigating the processes
of participatory sensemaking in non-traditional artistic creations?

- Article in FORUM+, JAR and/or equivalent.
- Organisation of Research seminar, preferably with colleague researcher (e. g.
Karin De Fleyt).
- Participation in Conference, e.g. SIMM, Latimpe,...
- Dissertation.