At the heart of this Sound Pillar is Orsolya Kaincz, project manager and member of the team behind the Transparent Sound New Music Festival. Her work focuses on bridging artistic expression and societal impact, especially through sustainability. Pro Progressione has developed its own Sustainability Methodology — a framework that measures environmental impact while encouraging sustainable practices in the cultural sector.
This methodology aligns closely with S-EEEMERGING’s goals: fostering a long-term mindset shift in how we experience art and engage with our environment.
“The connection between early music and sustainability, for me,” Orsolya explains, “lies in the idea of preservation — whether it be of cultural heritage or ecological resources.”
© Balázs Mohai – Transparent Sound New Music Festival
This dual sense of preservation is key to her vision. Early music inherently values tradition, history, and the renewal of past practices — ideas that echo strongly with the principles of environmental sustainability.
The question then becomes: how can historic artistic practices inspire more sustainable futures?
Through S-EEEMERGING, Pro Progressione is exploring exactly that. Their holistic approach to sustainability centers on education, self-regulation, and deepening our sensory connection to nature. By applying these ideas to the field of early music, they’re helping to create new frameworks for ethical artistic practice — ones that take into account environmental impact, long-term thinking, and social responsibility.
“This partnership enriches my work,” Orsolya shares, “by offering a platform to integrate sustainability in a tangible, measurable way, while also encouraging reflective practice — for both artists and audiences.”
At its core, this collaboration is about more than cross-sector exchange. It’s about imagining a cultural sector where ancient sounds and contemporary values can coexist — and even strengthen one another. By bringing sustainability into conversation with early music, S-EEEMERGING and its partners want to show how the arts can lead the way in rethinking our relationship with the planet — without losing sight of the heritage that got us here!
