BUT STILL

A great start for 2014…

Lore Lixenberg by Markus Gradwohl
Lore Lixenberg by Markus Gradwohl

…awesome performance of Lore Lixenberg in Vienna.

BUT STILL ATTACHED TO LIFE AT ALL FOUR CORNERS

>>> more about the piece

In this piece for voice and ensemble (mezzosoprano, percussion, live electronics and a ‘baroque’ ensemble performing with flauto traverso, cembalo and bass viol at a=415hz) I wrap a composition in two layered modules around a fragmented baroque Prelude for cembalo by Elisabeth Jacquet da La Guerre.

Premiere on December 29th & 31st, 2013 at off-Theater Vienna,
with Lore Lixenberg, Berndt Thurner, Sonja Leipold, Sylvie Lacroix, Eva Neunhäuserer and myself.

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DUNKLE ZEITEN WIEN

My upcoming premiere as part of an interdisciplinary production:
29. und 31. Dezember 2013, 20:00 Uhr
off-Theater, 1070 Kirchengasse 41

DUNKLE ZEITEN WIEN

Komponistinnen zwischen den Zeiten – barocke Kompositionen und fünf Uraufführungen heutiger Musik in einer Inszenierung zum Jahreswechsel

Reservierungen unter: 0699 1705 1443 und office@e-may.org
Preise: 29.12. Kategorie II zu 11 €, Kategorie I zu 21€ bei telefonischer Bestellung oder per Email. AK: 23 €.
31.12. Kategorie II zu 13 €, Kategorie I zu 23 € bei telefonischer Bestellung oder per Email. AK: 25 €.

Uraufführungen von
Veronika Mayer, JUUN, Pia Palme, Rosi Rehformen, Caroline Profanter, Tamara Wilhelm.

Barocke Kompositionen von
Maria Anna Martinez, Marianne Auenbrugger, Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, Anna Boleyn, Anna Amalie Prinzessin von Preußen, Anna Bon, Francesca Caccini.

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Dank an Wien Kultur MA7, bmukk und SKE für die Unterstützung dieser Arbeit.
Eine Produktion von Labor L.A.U.T. und e_may.

Texte: Hans Belting, Judith Butler
Rauminstallation: Matthias Buch & Anna Mitterer
Klangregie: Christina Bauer
Konzept/Inszenierung/Kuratierung neue Musik: Pia Palme
Recherche/Kuratierung Barockmusik: Sonja Leipold

2 contrabass recorders

Saturday, Dec. 7th 2013, 7:30 pm
Taktlos, Wien 17, Dornbacherstr. 107

Pia Palme & Bernadette Zeilinger performing with
2 kueng contrabass recorders
(unplugged)

at Bernadette’s flute-festival Go.ETe 7.-8.12.2013

Klangmanifeste

Am Freitag 6.12. bin ich Teil einer interessanten Podiumsdiskussion
beim engagiertem Festival:

KLANGMANIFESTE 2013
Zwischen Schwingung und Materie 4.12. – 13.12.2013
www.klangmanifeste.at

Tag II | DAY II 6.12.
18:00 – u5undvierzig:
Roman Gerold

20.00 – Echoraum:
Billy Roisz
Kollektiv/Rauschen

Podiumsdiskussion: Klang.Macht.Affekt
Eskapismus in der Musik oder: Leben wir im neuen Biedermeier?
(Mit Pia Palme, David Schweighart und Anderen.
Impulsvortrag: Bernd Bösel, Moderation: Alexandra Cornelia Vogt)

Occam Paris

Montparnasse, 29. October 2013

Currently I am in Paris, studying with composer Eliane Radigue.
We work on a new solo-version of her piece OCCAM for the Kueng contrabass recorder. It appears that the instrument perfectly embraces the piece. I feel very grateful for the process, for the exchange

and the richness of sound.

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VLP on Fuji

 

Japanese FUJI-TV’s prime-time show ‘Unbelievable’
featured the video of my trio VLP terrain!
Thanks to Bela Borsodi for the awesome fotos and concept,
and of course Electric Indigo for making the video from the fotos,
and to the great trio JSX/Pia Palme/Electric Indigo for the music (label: Idyllic Noise).

Here the original version:

Current work 8/2013

Composing the noise of mind

This is the theme of my current compositional and performative work and research, and the title of my thesis in composition.

My article with this title about the compositional structure and creative process of my piece LIP OF THE REAL II will be published in the ‘CeReNem journal’ at the end of November.

zukunft der oper

Die Zukunft der Oper / the future of the opera

October 25th-27th 2103, Deutsche Oper Berlin

I will be part of the panel discussing the aspect of “Kunst” at the symposion:
14.30 – 16.30 Uhr, Parkettfoyer Deutsche Oper Berlin

Thema: Die Kunst

Mit: Klaus Lang (Komponist), Nicos Ligouris (Filmregisseur), Jonathan Meese (Bildender Künstler und Regisseur),
Pia Palme (Komponistin und Performance-Künstlerin),
Meg Stuart (Choreografin)
Moderation: Erika Fischer-Lichte

http://deutscheoperberlin.de/de_DE/calendar/symposion-the-future-of-opera

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23. October 2013, 19:00, Alte Schmiede Wien
Reihe STROMSCHIENE:

RADIAT extension

Pia Palme: aerophones & electronics
Ryoko Akama: electronics & objects
JSX: turntables

I invite noise for a collaboration: how will it make ‘music in noise’ with me? (Ryoko Akama)

Mit RADIAT extension setzen Pia Palme und Ryoko Akama ihr in Huddersfield, GB begonnenes gemeinsames Projekt RADIAT fort. Sie bearbeiten dabei das Thema ‘Noise’ von verschiedenen Seiten, musikalisch und politisch motiviert. Dazu landen sie als kongenialen Partner den Komponisten und Turntablisten JSX aka Jorge Sanchez-Chiong ein.

See also: www.ryokoakama.com

blue room hud

Saturday, October 5th, 21:30
Byram’s Arcade, Huddersfield
@ thesilenthowl.com

Ryoko Akama/Daniel del Río/Pia Palme

as part of the Prickly Cactus Tour…

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RADIAT MN

 

Saturday, Oct. 5th, 3 – 7 p.m.Huddersfield,
Atrium of Arts Building,

as part of the conference Noise in and as Music

@ CeReNeM,
Centre for Research in New Music, (University of Huddersfield, UK)

RADIAT  MN & GC

installation & continuous installative performance – 4,5 hours of live performance,
a collaboration of Ryokoa Akama and Pia Palme

read more at   >>>

sheffield

Thursday, October 3th, 21:30
@ Over the Top, Sheffield, GB

Ryoko Akama/Pia Palme

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freispiel

Donnerstag, 26.9. 20:00, Studio klangart,
Huglgasse 24, 1150 Wien
FREISPIEL Nr. 6

Richard Graf, Gitarre / Simon Frick, Violine /
Pia Palme, Kontrabassblockflöte

Eintritt frei.

Workshop Grenzzustand

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The wonderfully cool space of moe Vienna during workshop with Aiko and Pia.

 

< Grenzzustand – Limit State >

Intensiv – Improvisationsworkshop
mit Aiko Kazuko Kurosaki und Pia Palme
mit anschließender Performance

Performance  – Sonntag,  4. 8. ´13 um 20.00

Ort: moe http://mmooee.org/
Thelemangasse 4/1, 1170 Vienna
für MusikerInnen, Stimmen, TänzerInnen und PerformerInnen
Level – Fortgeschritten

Workshop – Samstag, 3. 8. ´13 von 14.00  bis 19.00
Sonntag, 4. 8.  ´13 von 14.00  bis 19.00

Aiko Kazuko Kurosaki: http://www.labfactory.at/1410821.0/

http://www.aikaku.net

ORTUNG (2006) at Hilltown

Sat. 20.- Sun. 21.7.2013
My electronic feedback/aerofone piece

ortung (2006)

from the solo-album ORHCIDEE (yes, spelling is correct that way)
is played at the Hilltown Festival, Ireland.

Hud 6/2013

Wednesday, June 19th, 7.30pm
Phipps Hall, Huddersfield (GB)

Concert

presenting new works by Rodrigo Constanzo, Ryoko Akama, Rose Dodd/Monty Adkins, Mark Bokowiec, Stephen Harvey and Pia Palme:

TURQUOISE PASSAGE (Palme 2013)
for contrabass recorder, voice, electronics, with texts by Palme.

>>> more about the piece

Presentation 6/2013

Monday, June 17th, 12:30
Universität Wien,
Institut für Musikwissenschaft als Gast von Prof. Dr. Gerlinde Haas

Vortrag Pia Palme:
Barocke Strukturen des Zeitgenössischen

Ich präsentiere und kommentiere meine Arbeiten, mit Musikbeispielen und Materialien. (Der Titel ist ein Zitat der Tanz- und Musikwissenschafterin Anja Arend.)

Universitätscampus AAKH, Hof IX
Spitalgasse 2-4, 1090 Wien, Österreich
Eingang: Garnisongasse 13

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The Geometry of Water

Im Nachhinein darf es öffentlich gemacht werden/
This long night of experimental and contemporary music in Tehran was not allowed to be announced in public; but afterwards the program can be published:

Friday, May 24th 2013, 6 p.m. until 10 p.m.
Austrian Residence Gardens, Darband, Djafari Street Nr. 57

THE GEOMETRY OF WATER

An Austro-Iranian Concert Presenting New Positions of Music

Concept: Pia Palme, Austrian artist-in-residence Tehran
Sounddesign: Farshad Shokuhfar

Dank and die Österreichische Botschaft in Teheran und an das Österreichische Kulturforum Teheran.

For details see my blog >>>

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Teheran 2013

In May 2103 my working place is in Tehran. I am delighted to be Austrian Artist in Residence at the teahouse-pavillon of the Austrian ambassador’s residence. The “teahouse” is like an isolated retreat cell, providing the luxury of space for art, creativity and research.

In a country with a climate like Iran, a garden is truly a paradise. It is protected by high walls, to keep out wind, dust and heat. In a bustling, noisy, dusty city of 14 millions, trees become true friends: without hesitation they share their gift of coolness and relaxation. I am surrounded by friendly, sentient beings full of generosity. I am grateful.

Tagebuch / blog and more about >>>

 

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ABSTRIAL post

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Sore and audioscore for ABSTRIAL

Do 25.4. bis Sa 27.4. / 20:30 im KosmosTheater Wien

ABSTRIAL

a radical contemporary opera

Concept: Pia Palme, Electric Indigo, Paola Bianchi, Ivan Fantini
Direction & choreography: Paola Bianchi
Texts: Anne Waldman, Ivan Fantini, Pia Palme
Installation: Ivan Fantini
Composition for baritone solo, 3 female voices, contrabassrecorder: Pia Palme
Composition for computer and 10 speakers: Electric Indigo
Singers: Bartolo Musil, Eva-Maria Kumpfmüller, Johanna von der Deken, Anna Clare Hauf
Performance: Paola Bianchi, Pia Palme, Electric Indigo
Lightning design: Paolo Pollo Rodighiero
Sound design: Christina Bauer

Foto by: Markus Gradwohl
Foto by: Markus Gradwohl

 

Tageskarten: € 17,– | erm. 13,– & 10,– | KosmosEuro 1,– | Sparpaket 72,–
Reservierung: Tel. 01/523 12 26, karten@kosmostheater.at

Dank an unsere Förderer: Kulturabteilung der Stadt Wien, BMUKK, Erste Bank, KosmosTheater, Remaprint.

ABSTRIAL ist radikale, zeitgenössische Oper in größtmöglicher Transparenz, eine flüchtige Darbietung steter und unaufhaltsamer Prozesse. Ivan Fantinis Installation aus aufgehendem Brotteig und Gläsern bildet die Achse, um die sich die Performance von Paola Bianchi, der beiden live musizierenden Komponistinnen und der SängerInnen bewegt. Motiv ist der Zerfall alltäglicher Werte, Bedeutungen, Strukturen und die daraus entstehenden von den KünstlerInnen neu zusammengesetzten Gefüge. Texte der US-amerikanischen Dichterin Anne Waldman geben zusammen mit fallenden Gläsern die Rhythmik der allgemeinen Dekomposition und Restrukturierung vor. ABSTRIAL setzt diese materielle Ebene in direkten Zusammenhang mit zeitgenössischer Komposition, elektronischer Musik und Performance. Der Titel ist eine Zusammensetzung aus den Worten Abstraktion und Material.

Storyboard for ABSTRIAL: created by Bianchi&Palme

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Foto by: Markus Gradwohl

ABSTRIAL is an opera of maximum transparency, a presentation of imperturbably continuing processes. Ivan Fantini’s installation made of bread dough and glasses constitutes the ideational axis for the performances of Paola Bianchi, the two composers who play live, and the vocalists.

Guiding themes are the disintegration of quotidian values, meanings and fabrics, and consequently arising structures re-composed by the artists. The gradually changing installation resulting in falling glasses join with Anne Waldman’s text to create structure and rhythm ruling decomposition and reorganization.

ABSTRIAL connects the material level directly to contemporary composition, electronic music and text. The made-up word ABSTRIAL is a composite of “abstraction” and “material”.

Composer Pia Palme uses four voices in a radical way: a baritone sings the solo part – partially transmitted via headphones as an audio-score. Three female voices form a choir that reads from conventional scores. Electric Indigo’s composition is based on language and voice too. Yet, using granular and spectral analysis of spoken words, she creates entirely abstract sounds and textures.

The body is Paola Bianchi’s specific language, her instrument, but also her study subject. Both in performance and in choreography, position and shape of bodies in space are of equal importance as the “inner” choreography of muscles, tendons, skin, and the reactions within the body.

The American writer Anne Waldman provided a customized text for the play, tailored to its concept and themes. Italian text fragments by Ivan Fantini and German parts by Pia Palme complement the literary fundament.

“Time doesn’t fly, it is a timeless present that we don’t comprehend. Is there any ‘here’? Is there any ‘now’? Time doesn’t fly, it is an approximation of our perception. The sky is above and below, you can only lose yourself.”(Ivan Fantini)

Music Distillery

Proud to be participating here:

Saturday, 6. April 2013, 19:00
Museum für Völkerkunde Wien, Säulenhalle

The Music Distillery
– ein musikalisches blind & speed Dating Projekt

Einlass 18 Uhr
Beginn 19 Uhr (pünktlich)

Eintritt frei
Eine Veranstaltung von Basis.Kultur.Wien in Kooperation mit dem
Museum für Völkerkunde und dem
verein08, by Dominik Nostitz.

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Women’s Day 2013

Friday, March 8th 2013 and 7 days online at webradio:

I will be live at the studio, presenting music and talking about festival and network e_may, together with Gina Mattiello and Sylvia Wendrock, on invitation by Irene Suchy:

Radio OE1 11:03 pm – 2:00 am: ZEITTON extended

http://oe1.orf.at/programm/330659

 

Supporting and spreading:

Press statement – 8 March 2013 – International Women’s Day:
An urgent call for female representation in electronic music and digital arts

http://www.femalepressure.net/pressrelease.html

Following on from recent public debate on sexism in the German media female:pressure is calling for a collective revision of female representation in electronic music and digital arts. We would therefore like to contribute with an analysis of our current working climate.

BOUNDARY LAYER LISTENING

BOUNDARY LAYER LISTENING
a contribution to a soundwalk/installation on Wednesday 20th
in Huddersfield University, Creative Arts Building

more >>>

LIP OF THE REAL II

Thursday, 14.2.2013, 7:30 pm, St. Paul’s Hall, Huddersfield

My new piece

LIP OF THE REAL II (2013)

for a flutist/soprano using a throat-microphone with PTT-button,
percussion and live-electronic surrounding,
with texts by Anne Waldman and Pia Palme

will be premiered by:

Alice Teyssier, flute and soprano
Jonathan Hepfer, percussion
Pia Palme, live electronics 

>>> more about the piece

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Akama::Palme

Tuesday, 12.2.2013, 8 – 9:30 pm, The Cellar Bar @ The Lawrence Batley Theatre,
Queen Street, Huddersfield

Pia Palme and Ryoko Akama joining others at: 

Sound Events @ the LBT
Come and play, come and listen.

Wednesday, 13.2.2013, 8:30 pm, The Riverside in Sheffield

Pia Palme and Ryoko Akama at:
The Noise Upstairs

http://www.thenoiseupstairs.com/

Music and Ethics

Irene Suchy featuring an interview I gave on music and ethics, among others, and a cut of BARE BRANCHES to be heard on radio!

Freitag, 1. Februar 2013, 10:05, Radio Ö1: Intrada – Exkurs, Moderation: Irene Suchy

7 days webradio: http://oe1.orf.at/programm/327257

Musik, Markt, Medien. Das monatliche Magazin widmet sich aktuellen Fragen des Musiklebens im Feature-Beitrag, im Studiogespräch, in einer Buchrezension und im Musiklexikon.

… die seit Plato gestellte Frage nach Ethik in der Musik …

SORJUANA re 2013

Dienstag, 29.1.2013 brut im konzerthaus, Lothringerstrasse 20, 1030 Wien
doors: 20h / begin: 21h (sharp!) / entry: 3€
http://velak.klingt.org/

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73. Velakgala
featuring Jörg Zemmler, Johannes Deutschmann, Wagner Felipe Dos Santos and:

SORJUANA re-enacted