Texts

Forthcoming

Palme, P. (2024). WIE WIR WOLLEN – Über das Festival e_may als Beispiel für Empowerment und Aktivismus in der neuen Musik. Ein Erfahrungsbericht. Book article, in Empowerment. Wissen und Geschlecht in Musik Theater Film (mdw Gender Wissen, Bd. 10), Ellmeier, A., Ingrisch, D., Walkensteiner-Preschl, C. (eds). Böhlau Verlag, Wien 2024

Palme, P. (2024/25). The composer’s practice in the context of the posthuman convergence. Book article after my keynote for the Composition and Research symposium 2023, GMPU Klangenfurt.

Recent publications

Palme, P. (2024). Rauschen. An excursion across the border between the wanted and the unwanted – and then back again. Book article, in A Sound Word Almanac. Herzogenrath, Bernd (ed.). Bloomsbury Academic, New York/London 2024. ISBN HB 979-8-7651-0905-2

Palme, P. (2017). NOTATIONEN AUS ZORN: AUTO-ETHNOGRAPHISCHE TEXTE ZU EINER PERFORMANCE ÜBER DEN DRITTEN RAUM. Journal article, in FKW // Zeitschrift für Geschlechterforschung und visuelle Kultur Issue 63, December 2017. 
Read the article here >>> Notationen aus Zorn:Palme FKW
Link to the journal >>> http://www.fkw-journal.de/index.php/fkw

BLOGS

Blog [April-May 2022] during the residence as a Saari Fellow in Saarinen, Finland, and about travelling through Europe.
BLOG SAARI 2022 >>>

Blog [2019-2022] during the artistic research project On the Fragility of Sounds
at the KUG University of Music and performing Arts Graz funded by the FWF Austrian Science Fund AR537.
A COMPOSER’S BLOG [selfethnographic] >>>

Blog [November 2018] during a month-long residency at the tiny island Örö in the Finnish archipelago. The island is a National Park and historic site. The blog was written in cooperation with the festival Wien Modern 2018 featuring texts, poems, performances, sounds, pictures, and videos.
Embedded Remote Security Blog >>>

Blog [August 2017] during a month-long stay as Artist in Residence at q-02 Workspace in Bruxelles.
No noise is an island Blog [q-02] >>>

Blog [May 2013] during my stay at the Teahouse Artist Residence in Tehran, Iran For one month, I lived and worked in the tea pavilion in the middle of the old park of the Iranian Austrian Embassy. Features texts, photos, stories, documenting workshops, concerts, recordings, interactions with Iranian artists.
Teahouse Tehran Blog >>>

Other publications

For more scholarly writing, also look at my academic research project website:
www.fragilityofsounds.org

Performing a feminist utopia: Music theatre as democratic practice >>>
Authors: Pia Palme & Christina Fischer-Lessiak, revision: Molly McDolan
An essay originally presented at the Music and Democracy: Beyond Metaphors and Idealisation Study Days, convenors: Igor Contreras Zubillaga and Robert Adligton, University of Huddersfield, UK, 20-21 June 2019

Interview with Thomas Heher  >>>
Christina Lessiak and Pia Palme talk with Thomas Heher, founder and director of Waves Vienna festival, about the situation of women in music business and the initiative Keychange.

An interview
“Im Zweifelsfall mehr reden als weniger”
Die Composer-Performerin Pia Palme im Gespäch mit Peter Motzkus
appeared in Seiltanz. Beiträge zur Musik der Gegenwart. Herausgeber Stefan Drees, Gordon Kampe, Peter Motzkus. Ausgabe 17, Oktober 2018. ISSN 2191-0499

My score AX.WHO. (2009) was featured in the The Wire 399/ May 2017,
in their series The inner sleeve, presented and discussed by Electric Indigo.

Doctoral portfolio and thesis (doctor of philosophy)
The noise of mind: A feminist practice in composition
Pia Palme 2017, University of Huddersfield.
My thesis can be read here >>> Thesis_Palme_2017

An article about my realisation of Éliane Radigue’s OCCAM XVIII for contrabass recorder solo, and about the composer’s method of oral score transmission.
Read the pdf here >>> Notes on Radigue (Palme 2017)

A comprehensive article about my work by the musicologist Dr. Susanne Kogler
“A Nomad of Sound”: The Austrian-born Composer, Interpreter, and Performer Pia Palme
Author: Dr. Susanne Kogler, published in Musicologica Austriaca
Link to article >>> http://www.musau.org/parts/neue-article-page/view/36

A brief investigation (unpublished)
Exploring the Male Ear
Pia Palme and f:p 2016/17
Read the sketch here >>> http://piapalme.at/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Exploring-the-Male-Ear-1.pdf

Vortrag/lecture
Muster des Zorns. Hintergründe und Entstehungsprozesse meiner Kompositionen für Stimme.
Link zum Artikel als pdf >>>
Gehalten am 21.11.2015 beim Symposium WIENMODERN
„Vergiß das populare nicht“. Das Universum Stimme in der Neuen Musik.
In Zusammenarbeit mit dem Institut für Musikalische Stilforschung sowie dem Institut Antonio Salieri (Gesang in der Musikpädagogik) der mdw Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien.
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Pia Palme 2015
Drawing on Paper, from Mind to Voice
About the background and concept of my piece SETZUNG, published in
CERENEM Ricercata Journal /Issue #5 /spring 2015 University of Huddersfield,
Read the article here >>>
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Pia Palme 2015
The Politics of Resonance
In: Divergence Press Issue #4/ spring 2015, University of Huddersfield Cerenem
Read the article here >>>
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Pia Palme 2011
This is a text about audio scores, a compositional concept I developed for the compositions CANTU FOLIATO and BARE BRANCHES: >>> Using audioscores:
a concept for a piece for vocal ensemble/choir

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Pia Palme 2014
LIP OF THE REAL version II: Composing the noise of mind published in CERENEM Ricercata Journal /Issue #4, University of Huddersfield.
Read the article here >>> CeReNeM_Journal_Palme

Complete journal online under
http://issuu.com/cerenem/docs/cerenem_journal_issue_4
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An extended Portrait Pia Palme was published by the Online-magazine terz.cc of June 2013, including a statement by Liza Lim, biographical material, and a review of ABSTRIAL.
Read as pdf  >>> Portrait Pia Palme
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BOUNDARY LAYER LISTENING
A text score and text about a listening station
for a soundwalk, Schaeffer-style >>>
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Interview
Philosophische Brocken. Natascha Gruver im Gespräch mit Pia Palme.
The audiofile can be downloaded at the
Philosophische Audiothek” >>> http://audiothek.philo.at 
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Andreas Felber about Pia Palme:
Entkonditionierungs-Versuche
Der Standard, 16. Mai 2011    >>> link zum Text
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