Artistic Research at Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel
In artistic research, artistic practice takes centre stage. It is both an essential part and the finality of the research process. Therefore, artistic excellence is a prerequisite for a successful research trajectory.
The artist-researcher reveals the complex structure of their artistic practice, analyzes and interrogates it critically and informedly, both in doing and thinking. The insights that flow out of this are to be processed in artefacts and shared openly with peers using diverse, non-predetermined forms.
Thus, artistic research is not only a well-thought artistic practice; it is also an attempt to disclose to the broader artistic and academic world the explicit and implicit knowledge production that accompanies it.
Research domains
The Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel comprises ca. forty researchers who aim to develop new insights and perspectives and to deepen those further through creative, artistic, and scientific research.
For this, critical observation, analysis, information, and contextualisation within all aspects of music, musical, and their respective pedagogies are central.
KCB defines four research domains that are not only rooted in the rich artistic history of the institute, which dates back to 1832, but are also continuously searching for innovation and implementation in the artistic and academic world:
- the artistic research process of creation/performance/improvisation
- organology
- international en Brussels context
- relationship technology and creation
