READER put together for the Oscillation festival 2023.

Time fas­cin­ates because of its per­vas­ive­ness: there is no way to think around it. As with any­thing so ubi­quit­ous, it is easy to assume that time is nat­ur­al and non-nego­ti­able, but con­cepts of time are con­struc­tions, and those con­struc­tions depend strongly on social and tech­no­lo­gic­al real­it­ies. At first sight, time’s nature is lin­ear. But oth­er con­cepts are pos­sible. Time can also be sim­ul­tan­eous, mul­ti­di­men­sion­al, or revers­ible. Time is a non-lin­ear way to order events in rela­tion to each oth­er, and since sound is a time-based phe­nomen­on, those pos­sib­il­it­ies are fun­da­ment­al con­di­tions for mak­ing music.

The four days of Oscillation 2023 pro­posed dif­fer­ent set­tings to explore these con­sid­er­a­tions. Day by day, we will zoom in on aspects such as dis­place­ment in time by memory or anti­cip­a­tion; time-struc­tur­ing instru­ments like rhythm, ges­ture, pulse, repe­ti­tion or silence; dur­a­tion­al sim­ul­tan­eity in which the audi­ence can nav­ig­ate autonom­ously; and the sub­ject­ive tem­por­al exper­i­ence of impro­visa­tion which strongly draws on relationality.

The four days of Oscillation 2023 will pro­pose dif­fer­ent set­tings to explore these con­sid­er­a­tions. Day by day, we will zoom in on aspects such as dis­place­ment in time by memory or anti­cip­a­tion; time-struc­tur­ing instru­ments like rhythm, ges­ture, pulse, repe­ti­tion or silence; dur­a­tion­al sim­ul­tan­eity in which the audi­ence can nav­ig­ate autonom­ously; and the sub­ject­ive tem­por­al exper­i­ence of impro­visa­tion which strongly draws on relationality.