[codex] I.

 

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RESIDENCY PROGRAM FOR MUSICAL INSTRUMENT INVENTORS, DESIGNERS, AND DEVELOPERS

[October 2026 - June 2027]

 

SOURCE, SUBSTANCE, AND STRUCTURE
Paradigms as Musical Knowledge: Genealogies and Future

 

An international residency investigating the historical foundations and future trajectories of originality, authenticity, and excellence.

 

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PROGRAM AT A GLANCE

 

 

Program period: October 2026–June 2027
Format: Four online seminars followed by an on-site residency
On-site location: Bled, Slovenia (EU)
Final presentation: Seventh Bled Contemporary Music Week
Application deadline: September 15, 2026

 

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FORMAT

 

Stage I. | October 21, 22, 2026

– 2 online seminars
– Participants present their practices, design methodologies, – prototypes, and works in development
– Q&A

 

Stage II. | December 28, 29, 2026

– 2 online seminars
– Critical inquiry and practice-led experimentation through SOURCE, SUBSTANCE, AND STRUCTURE: Paradigms as Musical Knowledge
– Q&A

 

Stage III. | June 14-25, 2027

– Performances, demonstrations, instrument-development laboratories, and research presentations at the seventh Bled Contemporary Music Week in Bled, Slovenia

 

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ABOUT THE RESIDENCY

 

 

 

[codex] I. is an international, process-oriented residency for musical instrument inventors, designers, makers, and developers examining paradigms as musical knowledge. Bringing together participants across artistic, craft, technological, and research contexts, it moves from articulating practices and inherited models toward prototyping, experimentation, and public presentation at the seventh Bled Contemporary Music Week in Bled, Slovenia (EU).

 

The program comprises four online seminars and a concluding on-site residency. Its extended structure gives participants time to map instrumental genealogies through presentation, dialogue, listening, source study, material inquiry, analysis, design, fabrication, coding, prototyping, testing, documentation, and critical reflection.

 

Participants may bring an acoustic, mechanical, electromechanical, electronic, digital, or hybrid instrument; an interface, controller, sound-producing object, software–hardware system, fabrication process, research question, or developing prototype. Each becomes a point of departure for examining the paradigms through which instruments are conceived, constructed, played, evaluated, circulated, and renewed.

 

Rather than presenting invention as linear progress from established instruments toward novelty, [codex] creates a reciprocal process in which concepts, materials, mechanisms, interfaces, judgments, and criteria remain open to inquiry. Historical models, bodies, tools, components, software, workshops, institutions, industries, and communities become carriers and producers of musical paradigms.

 

Participants investigate how originality, authenticity, and excellence were historically constituted; how instruments organize gesture, perception, agency, and possibility; how inherited standards shape what inventors imagine, build, test, and value; and how future practices might preserve, revise, challenge, or replace them.

 

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MENTORS

 

Dr. Alastair White 

Urban Megušar, Double M.Mus.

Dr. Niki Zohdi

Dr. Dré A. Hočevar 

 

 

COORDINATOR

 

Brina Kren