This issue of Ruukku explores the relationship between artistic research and the performance and presentation of music, asking what kind of music performance practices artistic research produces or enables. Artistic research as an experimental, avant-garde art form opens up a wide range of possibilities for how music can be practiced, presented or heard. The traditional settings of rehearsal or concert can take on new forms through, for example, shared agency, multimodal engagement, environmental attunement, installative practices, as well as non-real-time performance involving digital media and networks. Read more »