Beginning with a festival and symposium in Summer 2014, vs. Interpretation has created a field for inquiry and experimentation for artists, scholars, and interested individuals across all disciplines and experience levels. In June 2015, the Agosto Foundation released its first volume of writings inspired by the project, vs. Interpretation: An Anthology on Improvisation.

We invite you to browse these pages to familiarize yourself with the ongoing project and its participants.

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The first installation of the festival took place July 16-20, 2014. For information about the 2016 festival, visit the official festival website.

The mission of the 2014 festival was to bring together a diverse group of artists for the sake of presenting, examining, and documenting new creative and experimental music from a global and interdisciplinary perspective. Listeners were given the unique opportunity to witness and experience real-time composition and improvisation and to interact with exceptional artists.

Participants enjoyed a series of performances, presentations, opportunities for collaboration, lectures, panel discussions, workshops, sound installations, film screenings and evening concerts, many of which are available to see and hear right here on the website.

We invite you to browse the festival catalogue, below, and to explore highlights from the festival on the Agosto Foundation Vimeo channel.