How can interpreters, curators and creators of uncharted music, seek resonance in listening today?

Concluding a two-years trajectory, this research practice explores the question focusing on the fruition of music that hasn’t yet been categorized as “repertoire”, hence the definition of “uncharted”, as opposed to “new” or “contemporary”.
Its methodology draws from an observation of the different social, institutional and medial contexts that circulate in today’s many instances of listening, and relate this observation to the modalities in which uncharted music is widely produced and performed within its peculiar portion of the industry. This comparative analysis has been applied to practical reflections, expressed through performative case studies which revolved around commissioning, performing and creating new works in light of the layered conditions that surround their fruition, in the attempt at facilitating resonance beyond reifying modalities.

Encompassing the results of these previous case studies, “phædrus”, constitutes a plan for a medium-term musical, multidisciplinary and ecological of practice resonance, that unifies all the angles put into separate focus by the whole arch of the research. Sub-questions about the role of elements such as charisma, music-image relationship, the problematic nature of semantic language and co-creative practices in music fruition, find in this project a broader and more radical formulation:

What if instead of seeing human connections in listening as a burden to music “evolution” (M. Babbitt, 1959), we would establish our musical and creative practice on pursuing them?

The attached RC exposition illustrates all the (so far known) aspects of the practice, taking an hybrid for between a looping map and autoethnographic diary. This geographical and programmatic journal, while maintaining some of its pages unvaried, will grow, change and expand as Phædeus unfolds in the streets of Vienna.