.abeceda Institute

Contact

Inštitut abeceda.abeceda, Inštitut za raziskave umetnosti, kritične misli in filozofije/Stichting .alfabet

Dunajska cesta 10, SI-1000 Ljubljana

https://www.abeceda.io

info@abeceda.io

The .abeceda Institute was founded in 2019 as a platform for research and performance in the field of contemporary experimental and improvised music. It is headed by Dré A. Hočevar, a Slovenian percussionist, composer and music theorist based in Amsterdam. The institute is also incorporated in the Netherlands as Stichting .alfabet and is the successor institute to Zavod Ape.Parlour (2011–2020).

Concept

In its own words, the institute's activities are aimed at combining the potentials of contemporary artistic and social practice to generate a new creative space between the fields of artistic practice, theory and research. As such, it is designed to attract young musicians into a research environment into which they can feed their own individual and collective work, to generate infrastructural models capable of fostering self-reflection and performance. One such model is that of the artist-in-residence.

The institution's work centres on four areas: education, publication composition and performance.

Education

Moderated by Hočevar and supported by the Slovenian Embassy in The Hague, precept.concept.percept is an international interactive and virtual workshop that aims to produce new infrastructural frameworks via solo compositions submitted by the participants. These compositions are then documented and performed by members of .abeceda new music ensemble, among others.

See also

Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia in The Hague