The introductory year aims at letting you and your peer students act
as a proto-research group in addition to the work you engage in with
your individual supervising team.
It consists of 4 monthly sessions of 2-3 days. Several modules will
allow you to interact with fellow students and senior
artist-researchers:
- The modules Collegium, Coaching, and Source Readings
take the individual student projects as their point of departure. By
means of presentation and collective and expert feedback, a Q&A
forum for research-related questions and insights emerges that is
directly related to the furtherment of the research projects.
- On a more generic and meta-level, the Reflection, Experimentation, and Information
modules represent in an archetypal way the dimensions that
characterize every artistic research project. Thinking (through music),
creating (by means of experimentation) and exploring
(cross-disciplinarily) the vast territory of knowledge and information
production present particular and daunting challenges but also creative
and exciting opportunities. The sessions are chaired by members of the
docARTES teaching staff.
- To assist the junior researchers in gaining proficiency in the more practical skills at the basis of every
artistic research project, the Practice of Research module zooms in on aspects such as writing, presenting, organizing
information and methodology.
- The module Critical Perspectives on Artistic Research in Music examples of historical investigations are dissected to serach for an understnading of their validity and workings and to asses their relation to the concerns of today’s researchers.
- Finally, the Colloquium introduces “best practice” proponents in the research field presented by invited guests.
