💫 FACT FICTION — applications now open, link in bio 💫
The New Music Research Institute Amsterdam in collaboration with
@institut.abeceda and
@temponewmusic invites applications to FACT FICTION, an interdisciplinary research and development programme for students and professionals—including composers, performers, scholars, educators, makers, artists, producers, curators, and emerging practitioners—who seek to formulate, prototype, test, refine, and mobilise original research through artistic practice, analytical inquiry, and critical reflection within a sustained international research community.
Led by
@airfromnewplanets Dr Alastair White, the programme is structured across three pathways: Introduction to Research, Young Researchers, and the Advanced Research Group. These pathways support successive stages of research development, from foundational orientation and methodological formation to original proposal design, portfolio construction, doctoral preparation, advanced interdisciplinary analysis, and sustained peer review.
Research projects evolve through structured presentations, critical dialogue, peer review, and iterative refinement. Organised around the concrete questions, materials, methods, and challenges emerging from individual and collective work, the programme operates as a dynamic research ecosystem—supporting long-term project development while creating clear conditions for the articulation, application, and dissemination of research outcomes, including substantive contributions to artistic and scholarly knowledge.
All participants are invited to engage with Bled Contemporary Music Week (Slovenia, EU), which provides an intensive context for public presentation, interdisciplinary exchange, and reflective development. Selected research reports and articles may be published in the annual edition of the Journal of New Music Research and Development, produced by infra.norma.meta Amsterdam and Verso Doxa produced by .abeceda Institute.
