MISSION STATEMENT

The IAAA is an international 'floating faculty' of composers, performers and researchers with a positive threefold mission:

• To deliver advanced music-educational programmes, centred on intensive series of performance workshops, aimed at seeding the development of 21st Century artists on a worldwide basis

• To publish and disseminate information regarding its groundbreaking conceptual works – The Secessionist Method of Composition, Abstract Tonality, Polysuspension, GHM Theory (The Greater Harmonic Matrix), 12-TET Morphology, Hyperscales, Bi-Octaval Hexagrams, Hyper-Virtuosity, Virtuoso Perception, Tricesimoprimal Scales for Guitar, Creative Applications for Polyscales, Alternate Temperaments, Extended Techniques for Stringed Instruments, etcetera – in multiple formats

• To stage regular international performance events presenting new music and other cultural products based on the pursuance of its alternative approaches.

The seven pillars of our academic practice:

I Our duty of care to our students - constant professional mentoring – reliable, responsible, open.
II Excellence in performance, research, writing/rendering outputs, teaching, and administration.
III Scrupulous fairness and due diligence in our approach to assessments, student submissions, and in-house resources.
IV Constant professional self-development that is reflected in our research, teaching and performance practice.
V Complete honesty and openness in our relations with external academics, in spite of differences.
VI Fierce independence; total unflinching loyalty and support for the faculty, our students, our colleagues, and our principles.
VII Supreme dedication to pioneering research methods, alternative praxis, and radical theories, forging a new music for the future.