I had an amazing experience at Civitella: it was a platform for my most productive few weeks in several years. In addition to generating the opening section for my upcoming cd, creating a new performance work based on my discussions with the other Fellows, and providing the space and time to reflect on and write about the emerging aesthetic concerns of the community of artists of which I am part, this residency also opened up a set of future possibilities. More than one Fellow and I formed plans for future collaborations, and the time also allowed me to finally meet and create plans with a set of Italian artists and instrument builders with whom I have been corresponding. Though the future will tell which of these possibilities will come to fruition, the time here was vital and generative in every sense of the word.
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