Publication forthcoming late 2023
My article
Texts and Writings as Agencies in Composition. A Posthuman Tractate
will be published in the volume
Text as Source and Material in Contemporary Music Theatre
by the editor Christa Brüstle, published with Universal Edition, Vienna expected in 2023.

05/12/2023, 19:30 Reaktor Wien
Cantando Admont: Concert Talk – A sei voci
Cantando Admont performs my piece MORDACIOUS LIPS, TO DUST as part of an amazing program.
https://www.cantando-admont.com/konzerte/

12/10/2023, 21:20 as part of the festival
shut up and listen! 2023 ‘ka:os
@echoraum Wien

PINK VOID – Vier Positionen / Kollektive Improvisation
mit Isabella Forciniti, Pia Palme, Margarethe Maierhofer-Lischka, Aleksandra Bajde

The festival begins at 19:00 with installations and performances.

21/09/2023 Austrian Music Theatre Day
Fluid Spaces – New Music Theatre in the Era of Machine Learning
Among others, I will give a short presentation my recent music theatre WECHSELWIRKUNG.
Full program under www.mttw.at

From August 21-25, I attend the Critical Posthumanism Summer School led by philosopher Rosi Braidotti at the University of Utrecht, together with a large and vibrant community of international students. It’s intense, the reading list is sheer endless, talks and discussions inspiring, exhaustion and delight mingle. The watery landscape around Utrecht accommodates it all.

I take long excursions with my bike – I came by train this time and took my collapsible bike with me. Best decision ever, although I’m the slowest person around. Birds, farm animals, the light, the waterways offers space to breathe. In the evenings, I come out here to read.

28/07/2023, 22:03 to 29/07/2023, 06:00
7 Stunden: Eine feministische Hör-Tour. Komponieren, publizieren, organisieren: Wegbereiterinnen aus vier Jahrzehnten.

Presented by Marie-Therese Rudolph and Marlene Schnedl, Radio Ö1 features new music by female* composers, 7 hours long. I participated in an extended conversation with composers Katharina Klement, Ming Wang, Flora St. Loup and the two presenters.

My new solo piece
ROSE REINER WIDERSTAND
for bass recorder and spoken voice
was performed and recorded live at Funkhaus Studio 2 and will be heard during this radio show. Here you see the situation in the studio, I used the piece of paper on a stand for live noise production during the piece, too.

Recently, I spent some time in Siracusa, Sicily. Here is a picture of the Ear of Dionysius and the ancient quarry. The acoustics of the place are fascinating.

FANTASTIC NEWS:
The Ventil Records album Fragility of Sounds was elected #11 of the Top 50 Albums of the Year 2022 by The Wire Magazine!

You can buy the album at
https://ventil-records.bandcamp.com/album/fragility-of-sounds

11/06/2023 – 19:30 Brücken 2023
Kunsthaus Mürz/Neuberg Münster und Kreuzgang
Cantando Admont: a sei voci
https://www.cantando-admont.com/
Performing works by Palme, Cardoso, Filidei, Winkelmann

03/06/2023 – 20:00 echroaum Wien
https://echoraum.at/
Pia Palme & hoodwink |
Winnie Huang, violin+performance & Kevin T. Fairbairn, trombone+performance
present the premiere of my new piece
BRYOZOA (2023)
for violin, trombone, bass recorder + spoken voice, 3 drums, plant material, paper,
with music, text, video and choreography,
duration 40 minutes

21/04/2023 – 13:30-14:50 Dokkhuset Trondheim, Norway
@14th SAR Conference TOO EARLY TOO LATE
Performance lecture Pia Palme & Govert Valkenburg
TIME(S) ON EARTH
with spoken texts & a music performance by Palme (bass recorder) & Valkenburg (alto sax), texts by Palme & Valkenburg, composition & video by Pia Palme

Read the abstract under https://sar2023.no/node/33

30/03/2023 – 19:30 KunstbeTrieb
Klostergasse 11, 1180 Wien
Duo Kristina Warren + Pia Palme
Live music with electronics, piano and bass recorder, videos by the artists

27/03/2023 – 19:00-01:00 Celeste Vienna
Monday Improvisers Session | Club Opening Set
Christina Warren, Pia Palme
hosted by Didi Kern
https://www.celeste.co.at

15/03/2023 – 19:00 Neuer Saal, Gustav Mahler University, Klagenfurt
Concert Schallfeld Ensemble Graz
Works by Mahnkopf, Palme, Posadas, Yoshida,
featuring the premiere of my new work and text
Or is it microbiology? (2023)
for lower voice and percussion
with Helena Sorokina (contraalto) and Manuel Alcaraz-Clemente

13-15/03/2023 Gustav-Mahler University Klagenfurt, Austria
Symposium Composition & Research

On 15 March, I’m invited to give the final
Keynote Lecture:
On composition as ecology. A posthuman tractate.
Read the abstract here >>>

The symposium features concerts, presentations, talks and discussions around composition and artistic research today. Come and join the discourse!

Symposium Komposition & Forschung

24/02/2023 – 20:00 Pfarrkirche Mariahilf Graz
Gesprächskonzert Cantando Admont / a sei voci
https://www.cantando-admont.com
Directed by Cordula Buergi, the ensemble performs my work
MORDACIOUS LIPS, TO DUST 
(2016, for four voices)
alongside works by M. Cardoso (1566 – 1650) and F. Filidei

22/12/2022 Publication
My article and video
Composing with a Polluted Planet
is be published as part of the (Peer reviewed) volume
Performing, Engaging, Knowing
Proceedings of the 7th Study Group Meeting of the ICTM Study Group on Applied Ethnomusicology, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Lucerne, Switzerland.

https://zenodo.org/record/7274072

17/11/2022 Radio OE1 23:03 – 24:00
series Zeitton & musikprotokoll
Astrid Schwarz presents a feature about my performance and the dialogue with musicologist Susanne Kogler, @musikprotokoll in October. With a new recording of NOCH RADIKALER (2022) @studio Martin Siewert.

Music and discourse with Pia Palme, Susanne Kogler, Astrid Schwarz
https://oe1.orf.at/programm/20221117/698245/Die-Palme-und-Susanne-Kogler-ueber-feministisches-Komponieren

02/11/2022 echroaum Vienna 19:30 – 22:00
FRAGILE SOUNDINGS
An evening with music & discourse featuring live performances by Electric Indigo, Veza Fernández, Elaine Mitchener, Séverine Ballon, and Pia Palme. Discourse with musicologist Dr. Susanne Kogler (University of Graz).

FRAGILE SOUNDINGS

A collaboration of echoraum with Ventil Records and the Project Fragility of Sounds, around the book Sounding Fragilities. An Anthology (Lehmann & Palme) and the Ventil album Fragility of Sounds

https://www.wolke-verlag.de/musikbuecher/lehmann-palme-sounding-fragilities/

https://ventil-records.bandcamp.com/album/fragility-of-sounds

12/10/2022 – 15:00 to 18:00
Gustav Mahler University for Music, Klagenfurt
Workshop about improvisation with Pia Palme
for ERASMUS+ BIP Project Trittico 2022

07/10/2022 14:30 – 16:00
Panel – musikprotokoll @ARTikulationen
Whodentity – Self and Other in Artistic Collaborations
With Caroline Gatt, John Eckhardt, Miya Masaoka, Pia Palme
photo #musikprotokoll 2022 ARTikulationen panel, credit M. Gross

08/10/2022 @musikprotokoll & Kunstuniversität Graz
Pia Palme | Sounding Fragilities
Palais Meran, Kleiner Saal, 14:30-16:00
performance, book presentation & discussion
https://musikprotokoll.orf.at/2022/projekt/sounding-fragilities

30/09/2022 – 6:30
Festival Unsafe+Sounds
2022 Edition – TAINTED FUTURES – AGENCY OF IMMEDIACY
among others: Pia Palme & Sonja Leipold performing the new piece VANISHED SHORELINES | verschwundene Ufer
@Zacherlfabrik, 1190 Wien, Nußwaldgasse 14

Listen to the piece here >>>

24/09/2022 – 19:00, echroaum Vienna
@ Shut up and listen! Transdisziplinäres Festival für Musik und Klangkunst

19:00 DE GUSTIBUS … esse disputandum — discourse
with Jury Everhartz, Johannes Kretz, Wei-Ya Lin, Pia Palme, Jorge Sánchez-Chiong, Brigitte Wilfing, Bernhard Gál (Moderation)

21:00 Film screening Pia Palme: Echology

17/09/2022 – 15:45-17:15
VOGELFUSS, MENSCHENSCHUH – 4 Module Loidl
@Literaturmeile Zieglergasse, Galerie-Lounge
www.literaturmeile.at
Zum 65. Geburtstag von Christian Loidl
Der Verein Farnblüte präsentiert eine Lyrik-Performance mit u.a. Susanne Toth,
Musik von Marwan Abado, Wolfgang Musil, Pia Palme

10 + 11/09/2022 – 17:00
@Zacherlfabrik, 1190 Nusswaldgasse 14, inside & outside
ZELTEN am verschwundenen Ufer
Concert, performance, ecologies
with ensemble airborne extended, Manuel Alcaraz-Clemente, Thomas Gorbach, Pia Palme
https://piapalme.at/zelten_zacherlfabrik/
Thanks to the BMKOES Department of Music, Kulturabteilung der Stadt Wien and SKE austro mechana for funding this project.

My desk at home. Yes, the snake skin plays an important part in my new performance for the Angewandte Festival. I found it at Saari, during my residence. The video was also filmed at the Saari Residence. If you want to read more about the snakes, go to my blog [WITH] Saari.

29/06/2022 @Sonic Sensibility
Universität für Angewandte Kunst Wien
https://ail.angewandte.at/explore/sonic-sensibility/
16:00 Panel discussion with Ricarda Denzer, Peter Kutin, Pia Palme and Karl Salzmann, moderated by Elisabeth Falkensteiner
19:00-21:00 performances by Paul Ebhart, Pia Palme, Fabian Lanzmaier.

I present my new performance
In a former post office. A performative ecology
Solo with voice, bass recorder, electronics, video & paper

Consider the old hall: it sounds by itself. In my performance, it is my living collaborator. I ask for their permission. It is alive and speaks with me. It allows me to project my video onto its surface. The hall performs with my instrument, reflecting, resonating, masking sound waves. My voice is with the floor, crawling into the basement. No, this is (not) another kind of animism, it is purely scientific thinking. My breath enters my instrument, flows through the big tube and exits through holes and openings. Softly, my sounding breath touches the walls, the columns, and moves up towards the glass ceiling. I listen to its history. We bow to each other.

The anthology Sounding Fragilities is out!

Co-edited by the theatre and performance scholar Irene Lehmann and the composer and artistic researcher Pia Palme.Published by Wolke, 312 pp., pb., € 34.–, 978-3-95593-129-2
Order the book at
https://www.wolke-verlag.de/musikbuecher/lehmann-palme-sounding-fragilities/

28 & 29/04/2022 Interdisziplinäre Ringvorlesungstagung 2022
Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien
Empowerment. Wissen und Geschlecht in Musik/Theater/Film
mdw.ac.at/ikm/ringvorlesungen

28/04/2022, 3:45 – 4:45 PM
Lecture Pia Palme
MIT. Komponieren im Netzwerk als künstlerische und ökofeministische Praxis

(publication forthcoming)
Conception: Evelyn Annuß, Andrea Ellmeier, Doris Ingrisch, Claudia Walkensteiner-Preschl. With, among others, Evelyn Annuß, Sabeth Buchmann, Faika El-Nagashi, Dagmar Fink, Marko Kölbl, Pia Palme, Luki Schmitz, Bernadette Weigel, Katja Wiederspahn.

26/04/2022 – 20:00 PM, Sibelius Museum Turku
https://sibeliusmuseum.fi/en/events/on-a-former-island/

ON A FORMER ISLAND

A theatrical ecology with
Elie Halonen & Satu Hakamäki – shibari dance performance
Pia Palme – composition/subbass recorders
Mari Zhiginas – voice
Tuomas Laitinen – dialogist
Siiri Viljakka – live sketching
Storyboard and concept by Palme/Halonen/Hakamäki/Laitinen
Idea, collection of plant materials and videos by Pia Palme.
All artists are currently fellows at the Saari Residence maintained by Kone Foundation.

Photo of Satu Hakamäki during rehearsal by Tuomas Laitinen

On a former island is a theatrical ecology that brings together sound, dance, text, humans, visuals, paper, plant material, and anorganic matter and was developed for the Sibelius Museum. The piece was initiated by the composer and artistic researcher Pia Palme (Austria) and conceived, developed, and staged with Elie Halonen, Satu Hakamäki and Tuomas Laitinen (Finland). The artists met during their residence at Saari in March and April, found that they share a deep connection with nature and ecology in art, and decided to enter a risky collaborative process. They are joined by the vocalist Mari Zhiginas (Ukraine). For all of them, the interaction of disciplines in this form was new and offered space for joyful experimentation and discovery. Siiri Viljakka, comic artist, projects the performance onto paper by means of simultaneous sketching and drawing.

23/04/2022 – 7 PM
Titanik Gallery Turku
Duo Topias Tiheäsalo/lute & Pia Palme/bass recorders

Saari Residency 3 March to 29 April 2022

WITH [Saari]

On March 3^rd I will begin my work at the Saari Residency in Hietamäki near Turku, Finland by invitation of the Kone Foundation – until the end of April. I’m very much looking forward to this stay. My plan is to travel there by car, moving slowly across Europe. I bring instruments, electronic gear, books, and warm clothes. I want to feel the distance, the countries in between Vienna and Turku, and get a taste of the various landscapes. With this journey, I also want to commemorate my grandfather. 

My plan is to compose, to make art and music, and write. The core theme is about bringing ecological ideas into my practice, experimenting with structures that draw on ecosystem ecology and creating compositional concepts that mirror these ideas. I want to listen to, and practice with, the environment and into myself, from an ecofeminist position.

03–12 December 2021 KNM Ensemble Berlin
@The National Taichung Theater (Taiwan)
Tunings of the World 2.0
reading music #9 – #13

閱讀音樂宣傳片_修改 from KNM Berlin on Vimeo.

5+6/11/2021 – 20:00 @FAHRBEREITSCHAFT – teilelager
Herzbergstraße 40–43, 10365 Berlin
MUSIC FOR a house + a street
The ensemble Berlin KNM presents new works by Julio Estrada, Laure M. Hiendl, Carlos Iturralde, Bum Ki Kim, Fang-Yi Lin, Wei-Chih Liu, Chao-Ming Tung, Pia Palme, Ana Maria Rodriguez and others.
With the premiere of my new text piece
ZELLWÄRTS (2021)
commissioned by the KNM ensemble.

https://www.kammerensemble.de/projekte/Music-for-.84e8c.php

During the Öres 21 Exhibition from 20.6. to 30.9.2021 the on-site performance Fern Bowl Piece (2018) that was recorded during my residency on the island Örö is shown Online.

https://www.ores.fi/project/pia-palme/

17/09/2021 Salon Praterstraße, 20:00
1020 Wien, Praterstraße 17

Vom Finden und Filtern extended
Wie aus der Fülle ein Gedicht wird, das in die Leere führt
in Kooperation mit der Schule für Dichtung sfd und dem Salon

Mit Eva Lavric, Ralph Klever (Konzeption, Kommentare, Workshop)
Pia Palme (Musik), Charley Eybl (Kamera, Schnitt)

10/09/2021 @Ars Electronica Linz
at Kepler’s Gardens, outside Kepler Hall
As part of the Big Concert Night 19:30 – 21:00
Music from the IMA Archive / With Beatriz Ferreyra, Pia Palme, Andrea Sodomka, curated by Elisabeth Schimana.

Links: Große Konzertnacht 
https://ars.electronica.art/newdigitaldeal/de/musik-aus-dem-ima-archiv/

Featuring my piece EXHIBIT #1 (2009) for Kempelen’s ‘Sprechmaschine’ [reconstructed by Jakob Scheid] plus Pia Palme – electronics, with Gina Mattiello  – voice & with a text from Bernadette Schiefer.

August 11/2021, 19:20 @isaSCIENCE
Summer academy of the mdw Vienna at Reichenau, Austria
Lecture performance Pia Palme
Feministing the ZKM or How to Establish a Musical Ecosystem beyond the Canon

Link to isaSCIENCE

Very happy to announce that the Austrian Radio OE1 presents an extended feature as a three-part series about my work as composer and about the artistic research project On the Fragility of Sounds at the Kunstuniversität Graz under my direction.

July 15/2021, 23:03 – 24:00 (MESZ)
Zeit-Ton Radio OE1 & online
Marie-Therese Rudolph presents:
Composer’s Portrait Pia Palme. Auf vielseitig verschlungenen Wegen.
Listen under
https://oe1.orf.at/programm/20210715/645135/Pia-Palme-Auf-vielseitig-verschlungenen-Wegen

July 16/2021, 23:03 – 24:00 (MESZ)
Zeit-Ton Radio OE1 & online
Presented by Astrid Schwarz
On the Fragility of Sounds (1)
Ein Rückblick auf das künstlerische Forschungsprojekt “On the Fragility of Sounds”
With music by Elisabeth Schimana, Séverine Ballon, Elaine Mitchener, Electric Indigo (commissioned by On the Fragility of Sounds) and an excerpt of Wechselwirkung by Pia Palme. With, among others, the ensembles Schallfeld, Phace, and soprano Juliet Fraser.
Listen under
https://oe1.orf.at/programm/20210716/645189/On-the-Fragility-of-Sounds-Teil-1

July 18/2021, 22:05 – 23:00 (MESZ)
Zeit-Ton Radio OE1 & online
Presented by Astrid Schwarz
On the Fragility of Sounds (2). Christina Lessiak empfiehlt.

Listen under
https://oe1.orf.at/programm/20210718/645270/On-the-Fragility-of-Sounds-Teil-2

June 30/2021 at 19:00 @Schaumbad, Graz
The Fragility of Sounds Concert Night
with Séverine Ballon, Pia Palme and Ensemble Schallfeld.

Lorenzo Derinni, Violine
Francesca Piccioni, Viola
Myriam Garcia Fidalgo, Violoncello
Margarethe Maierhofer-Lischka, Kontrabass

Séverine Ballon, Violoncello
Pia Palme, Bassblockflöte

Diskurs: Dr. Irene Lehmann

Eintritt gegen freie Spende

Das Konzert ist Teil des künstlerischen PEEK Forschungsprojektes On the Fragility of Sounds (2019 – 2021) an der KUG Kunstuniversität Graz, Zentrum für Genderforschung | FWF PEEK AR537. Gefördert vom FWF Austrian Science Fund. 

June 16/2021 02:00 PM, London
Zoom class Pia Palme
WITH – Towards an ecology in music
@ CRiSAP Sound Arts, London College of Communication,
University of the Arts London

For more events concerning artistic research at the University for Music and Performing Arts Graz, please look at my research project website
www.fragilityofsounds.org
for current updates.

Saturday, 29 May 2021, 6 pm
KNM’s Salon #2 – Historical Instruments in Contemporary Music
Stream fom KNM’s Garage 51 | Fahrbereitschaft Berlin

Moderation: Dr. Liam Cagney
Guests: Dr. Pia Palme, Komponistin (AUT)  |  Chao-Ming Tung, Komponist (TWN)  |  Matthew Conley, Musiker (USA/DEU)

Programme
Pia Palme : KREIDEBLEICH (2019-2021)ma piece for harpsichord with microtonal tuning and preparations, version #4 (2021) with video, Sonja Leipold, Cembalo
Ana Maria Rodriguez : Piedras for contrabass clarinet, baroque trumpet and live-electronics
Ensemble KNM Berlin

https://www.kammerensemble.de

Thursday, March 18/2021 – 5 PM [CET/UTC+1] Online Event

The Fragility of Sounds Lecture Series
Summary & Lecture #9
This is the final presentation in the series of lectures I curated with Christina Lessiak as part of my artistic research.

Pia Palme:
WITH. The significance of a preposition in my practice.

More about the series here >>>

March 8 to 14/2021 – online
Radio OE1 Radiokolleg – Jobprofil: Komponistin
with Marie-Therese Rudolph, featuring an interview with Pia Palme
https://oe1.orf.at/player/20210308/630750

Online Streaming from January 13th 2021, 8PM
to February 13th 2021, 8 PM

Wien Modern and Fragility of Sounds present
WECHSELWIRKUNG – an experimental music theatre

The film of the piece by Michaela Schwentner was available from 13 January until 13 February.

January 19/2021 – 8:00 PM Online Event @echoraum Vienna
Livestream unter https://echoraeume.klingt.org

entfernte freund*innen
oder: mit objekten zu sich an instrumenten für andere im raum durch einander >>>

An evening of sonic explorationsand new works with
Pia Palme bass recorder, video performance & electronics
Margarethe Maierhofer-Lischka double bass & electronics
Sonja Leipold harpsichord & preparations & objects

December 9/2020 – Streaming Concert 7:30 PM

Songs from a Distance
Portrait Concert Pia Palme >>>

at the OENB Austrian National Library, Musiksammlung
https://www.onb.ac.at/news-einzelansicht/portraet-der-komponistin-pia-palme
with Anna C. Hauf, Molly McDolan,
ensemble airborne extended
(Caroline Mayrhofer, Tina Zerdin, Elena Gabbrielli, Sonja Leipold)

13.-15./11/2020 WUK Projektraum Vienna
in cooperation with Wien Modern festival and ensemble PHACE

WECHSELWIRKUNG
A montage for the Anthropocene

A piece for singer, dancer, electronics and instrumental ensemble
world premiere 60’
by Pia Palme, Paola Bianchi, Juliet Fraser, Irene Lehmann, Christina Lessiak − an artistic research collaboration group
as part of the PEEK Project On the fragility of sounds

The piece was premiered without audience and filmed.
Watch the trailer here:

10/October/2020 – 19:30
Café Korb, Art Lounge downstairs
Composer’s Lounge 
with Duo Skweres (Yui Iwata-Skweres – Violine/Tomasz Skweres – Violoncello)
Astrid Rieder (TransArt), Pia Palme, Mia Zabelka.

September 2020
Gallery 12-14 contemporary
12-14 Schleifmühlgasse 1040 Wien

My video Forest#1 featuring oboists Molly McDolan & Ana Inés Feola
with oboe da caccia is part of an installation by Molly McDolan.

24/09/2020  19:00
Hasenherz: Performance im Rahmen der Ausstellung (Des)Orientierung
Molly McDolan & Ana Inés Feola perform
Eins und Doppelt (Pia Palme 2019/2020) 

Discussion with Ruth Anderwald and Leonhard Grond.
Works by Gerburg Neunteufl Pipina Schickaneder, Peter Hoiß & Anderwald & Grond. Curated by Hubert Hasler

22/09/2020/20:00
Aktionsradius Augarten, Gaußplatz 11, 1020 Wien
In Erinnerung an Christian Loidl:
Vom Finden und Filtern
Mitwirkende: Monika Heimbach, Christian Katt, Jaan Karl Klasmann, Eva Lavric, Richard Weihs
mit Live-Musik von Pia Palme

This is the first event by Aktionsradius Augarten since the lockdown in March.

21/09/2020
Radio orange playlist for Radio Augarten for the feature
Christian Loidl: Schaffensprozess aus Lyrik und Performancekunst
https://cba.fro.at/464940
presented by Mischa G. Hendl includes
More Radically (Pia Palme & Rosie Middleton; Text by Pia Palme)
The Sampler and the Drum (Pia Palme & Eric Gingras; Text by Pia Palme)

September 12 to 17/2020
Artistic research & rehearsals
Wechselwirkung

with Juliet Fraser, Paola Bianchi & Dr. Irene Lehmann
in Vienna

A summer full of surprises.

August 2020
UNCOOL Artist Residency, Poschiavo (CH)

I have been invited to be Artist in Residence in August, I travel to the Swiss mountain district Bernina, to the Uncool Residency in Poschiavo (organised and curated by Cornelia Müller). In a year like this, I very much look forward to this unique opportunity – and I hope that everybody stays healthy and everything will work out, including travel.

Public presentations

21/08/2020 – 5 PM Gardini Incantati
Casa Hasler Poschiavo
Trio PLS Palme/Loibner/Stempkowski

12 & 19 & 26 August 2020, 4PM concert series
Oratorio St. Anna, Poschiavo
A Montage of J. S. Bach & Improvisations
Pia Palme Solo, contrabass recorder unplugged

02/08/2020 OE1 series KUNSTRADIO 23:00 – 24:00
presented and curated by Elisabeth Zimmermann
available via webradio until August 8th here: https://oe1.orf.at/player/20200802/607747

ISOLATION ISLAND – Reisebericht von einer Dämmerungslinie  (2020)

This is the premiere of my 41 minute radio composition – or should I say radio experiment? – commissioned by KUNSTRADIO. It’s about my experiences and explorations as an artist in residence on Örö, a tiny island in the Finnish archipelago. Woven into field recordings, electronic music, and remixed compositions that were inspired by the residency, I talk and play my contrabass recorder. And, of course, I reflect upon some more recent observations about the  lockdown, which reminded me so much about the exposed and isolated situation in Finland.

https://oe1.orf.at/programm/20200802#607747/Reisebericht-von-einer-Daemmerungslinie

With:
Anna Clare Hauf, mezzosoprano
Molly McDolan, Ana Inés Feola, baroque oboe instruments
Ensemble airborne extended:
Caroline Mayrhofer, alto recorder
Elena Gabbrielli, bass flute
Tina Žerdin, harp
Sonja Leipold, harpsichord

Remix and electronic music by Pia Palme
Mastering and radio sound design: Elmar Peinelt, ORF Funkhaus studios
Texts by Pia Palme written on Örö, Finland 2018 and in Vienna 2020

Thanks to the Örö Residency Programme, SKE Austro mechana, FWF Austrian Science Fund, BMKOES Ministry for supporting this work.

Derzeit arbeite ich an meinem neuen Musiktheaterstück WECHSELWIRKUNG, das im November bei Wien Modern uraufgeführt wird, mit u.a. Juliet Fraser, Paola Bianchi und dem Ensemble PHACE im Projektraum WUK.

Currently, I compose my new music theatre WECHSELWIRKUNG. Premiere planned in November with Wien Modern 2020, with ensemble PHACE at Projektraum WUK. Artistic research conducted in collaboration with Paola Bianchi, Juliet Fraser, and Christina Lessiak. 

Cancelled
May 12/2020 – 20:00
>>> echoraum Wien will be moved tba.
Die Blaue Stunde
with Séverine Ballon, Margarethe Maierhofer-Lischka, Pia Palme,
ensemble Schallfeld

May 7/2020 – 23:00-24:00
Radio feature in the OE1 series ZEITTON
about the project Fragility of Sounds
presented by Astrid Schwarz

Cancelled
May 7 & 8/2020
Festival Fragility of Sounds
Kunstuniversität Graz
(including a premiere of my piece for voice, dance & ensemble with ensemble Schallfeld)

Cancelled
April 29/2020
Portrait concert Pia Palme
@ONB Austrian National Library
Musiksammlung
with Anna C. Hauf,
ensemble airborne extended, Molly McDolan

Cancelled
April 1/2020
Workshop Pia Palme @ University of Sydney, Australia
and research collaboration
with the Composing Women programme
and Prof. Liza Lim at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music

March 31st, 8pm / Make It Up Club Melbourne
online concert#2
Michelle Nguyen/electronics
Oz Kesik/electronics
Maz Benjemaa/guitar
Pia Palme/contrabass recorder

Cancelled
March 26/2020
Workshop Pia Palme @ Monash University, Melbourne
and collaboration with Prof. Cat Hope, Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music

My article
Performing Gender as Polyphony
is published in the book

Irene Lehmann, Katharina Rost, Rainer Simon (Eds.)
Staging Gender –
Reflexionen aus Theorie und Praxis der performativen Künste
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag 2019

Happy about this release by the brilliant Rhodri Davies
featuring an ensemble performance I took part in.
TRANSVERSAL TIME is out!

February 10 – 15/2020
Research period
Wechselwirkung #1
Juliet Fraser, Paola Bianchi, Pia Palme in Vienna

December 12 & 13/2019 – 20:00
off-Theater, Vienna

December 14/2019 – 20:00
Theater im Palais, Graz

MATTETOLINE (Palme 2019)
music-theatre performance

with Annette Schönmüller, Manuel Alcaraz-Clemente,
Pia Palme, Christina Bauer,
Peter Venus

Photography: Barbara Pálffy

November 17th/2019 15:00
Pia Palme performs MORE RADICALLY #2 (Palme 2019)
solo for spoken text and bass recorder
Paris, Cathédrale Américaine,
Concert à l’occasion du 30ème anniversaire de la fin de la guerre froide et de la libération de l’Europe centrale

11-15th November 2019
Orpheus Instituut Ghent
I participate in the Orpheus Research Summit 2019

October 31st/2019
Royal Holloway Concerts
Trio Atem with Nina Whiteman performs
HER VERY NOISE, HER GUISE (Palme 2017)
https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/research-and-teaching/departments-and-schools/music/events/trio-atem/

From September 15th to October 19th 2019
I participate as composer/performer in the
Banff Residency for Performing Arts, Early Fall
at the Banff Centre of the Arts, Canada.

The residency is funded by the FWF Austrian Science Fund
PEEK Project AR537 On the fragility of sounds.

October 18th/2019 7:30 PM
Banff centre of the Arts, Canada, Rolston Hall

Skinpaperfragility (Palme, Banff 2019)

for spoken text, bass recorder, a membrane paper score & silent video
with Pia Palme, bass recorder, voice &
Jane Gowan, paper performance
@Participants Concert Banff

4th October/2019 7:30 PM
Banff Centre of the Arts, Canada, Rolston Hall
MORE RADICALLY (Pia Palme, Banff 2019)
for voice, bass recorder, spoken text, and silent video

with Pia Palme, bass recorder, texts and Rosie H. Middleton, voice
@Participant’s Concert Banff Centre of the Arts

27th September/2019 7:30 PM
Banff Centre of the Arts, Canada, Rolston Hall
The Drum and the Sampler (Palme & Gingras, Banff 2019)

Composition and performance by
Pia Palme (concept, composition, bass drum)
& Eric Gingras (composition, sampler)
@Participant’s Concert Banff Centre of the Arts

Currently,

I work on a new music theatre performance as part of
the artistic research project On the fragility of sounds.
Composing and researching, I evaluate the artistic process that took place since the project start in March.

Project website: www.fragilityofsounds.org

02/07/2019 Radio OE1 Zeitton

Fokus Komponistinnen im 21. Jahrhundert

Musicologist Marie-Therese Rudolph reports on the
UNESCO conference Être Compositrice in Paris 2019
and features an excerpt of the
lecture-performance Pia Palme & Elisabeth Harnik
held at the beginning of the conference.

Also, listen to Ute Wassermann performing in
Patterns to punctuate song, with darkness (Palme 2016)

Link to the entire programme
https://oe1.orf.at/programm/20190702#558900/Fokus-Komponistinnen-im-21-Jahrhundert-Teil-1

20/06/2019 University of Huddersfield

Performing a feminist utopia:
music theatre as democratic practice

Paper presentation by Pia Palme and Christina Lessiak
about the Project On the fragility of sounds FWF AR 537
held at the Study Days
Music and Democracy: Beyond Metaphors and Idealisation

Convenors: Igor Contreras Zubillaga and Robert Adligton
University of Huddersfield, 20-21 June 2019

17/06/2019 19:00 Mumuth
KUG Kunstuniversität Graz

DUSK SONGS

a performance with voices, instruments, electronics, video

Auftakt zum PEEK Forschungsprojekt On the Fragility of Sounds

Anna Clare Hauf, Stimme
Molly McDolan, Ana Inés Feola, Oboe & Oboe da Caccia
Pia Palme, Bassblockflöte & Stimme

Ensemble airborne extended
Caroline Mayrhofer, Blockflöten
Elena Gabbrielli, Querflöten
Sonja Leipold, Cembalo
Tina Žerdin, Harfe

Projektvorstellung: Christina Lessiak, Pia Palme
Pia Palme, Konzept & Komposition

Eintritt frei

V:NM Festival Graz
http://vnm.mur.at

Friday 31/05/2019 16:30 IEM / KUG
Inffeldgasse 10, 8010 Graz Graz

We say we sound
a performative experiment

performers
Johann Seitinger, Laura Zöschg, Ana Čop,
Urban Pfeifer, Svitlana Varava, Pia Palme

idea & workshop: Pia Palme

Saturday 01/06/2019  20:00 Forum Stadtpark
Stadtpark 1, 8010 Graz
http://forumstadtpark.at

Duo & Trio & Quintett
Silvia Bruckner – piano
Elisabeth Flunger – percussion
&
Pia Palme – recorders
Thomas Lehn – analogue synthesizer
Thomas Stempkowski – upright bass

26/05/2019 10:48 Uhr
Reihe 10:48 im Kubinhaus Zwickledt, OÖ

Reiseberichte aus der Stille

Molly McDolan/Konzept, Oboeninstrumente, Rezitation
Pia Palme/Komposition, Bassblockflöte, Stimme

Musik von Clara Gervais, Pia Palme, Molly McDolan
Texte von John Cage, Pia Palme

04/05/2019 Brick 5
https://brick-5.at
aNOther festival – Borderline

Mattetoline 

a lecture performance by Pia Palme solo,
with texts, electronics, contrabass recorder, video
(Texte in Deutsch)

Thanks to ISCM Internationale Gesellschaft für Neue Musik.
Funded by FWF Austrian Science Fund Project AR537

24/04/2019,  8 pm, echoraum
Sechshauser Straße 66, 1150 Wien, (01) 812 02 09 30 >>> echoraum

dusk songs
oder lieder im morgengrauen #1

Anna Clare Hauf, voice
Molly McDolan, oboe instruments
Ensemble airborne extended : Caroline Mayrhofer, recorders;
Elena Gabbrielli, flutes; Tina Žerdin, harp

Paola Bianchi, choreography & dance
Christina Bauer, sound design
Pia Palme, concept & composition

A post-residency concert & kick-off performance
of the FWF research project
On the fragility of sounds

A story about a personal journey to a remote island.
A performance, in times of transition,
to celebrate the beginning of my research project about music theatre.

“Twigs flap against my face, as I roam through boreal forests on Örö Linnake. I think of my grandfather and grandmother, my heart cracks wide open, with melancholy moods spilling out, drifting towards the twilight shoreline. Longing fills the air, beside crisp smells of sea kale. I listen deeply into the landscape, and into myself.”

“Erforschend
wenn nichts ist zur Unterhaltung
musst du hier bleiben
kannst nicht weg
weder zu Fuss noch zu Kopf
wenn, dann zu Herz”

(Örö, im November 2018)

Dusk songs entstand in einer Übergangszeit und markiert zugleich einen Anfang. Im letzten November hat für mich ein künstlerischer und persönlicher Prozess begonnen: den ganzen Monat hindurch lebte ich auf Örö, einer entlegenen, kleinen Insel im finnischen Archipelago. Als Artist in Residence erforschte ich die Insel, konnte dort schreiben, komponieren, üben (mein Instrument reiste mit mir), performen (an unterschiedlichen Orten, meist im Freien), filmen, aufnehmen, beobachten. Im Dämmerungsraum zwischen Herbst und Winter erlebte ich die einsame Landschaft als unerwartet abwechslungsreich und kleinräumig, vielseitig, zugleich ruhig und friedlich. Meinen täglichen Streifzüge brachten mich immer wieder an dieselben Orte, zu denselben Felsen, Buchten, Wäldern, Bäumen, und, ja, Pilzen. Ich entdeckte den Reichtum kleiner Veränderungen und verlor mich im diffusen Licht einer versinkenden, verborgenen Sonne.

Unmittelbar nach der Reise erfuhr ich, dass mein Antrag für ein künstlerisches Forschungsprojekt über Musiktheater vom FWF Austrian Science Fund bewilligt wurde. Unter dem Titel On the fragility of sounds arbeite ich somit, bis 2021, an Kompositionen im Feld Musiktheater, werde Projekte realisieren, weitere Kompositionsaufträge vergeben, sowie gemeinsam mit meiner Mitarbeiterin Christina Lessiak über diesen Prozess reflektieren und schreiben. Untertitel: Musiktheater als feministische Praxis. Für das Projekt springe ich als Komponistin kopfüber in die akademische Welt an der Kunstuni Graz. Die Performance Dusk Songs bringt erste Ergebnisse – oder vielmehr: erste Fragen und Reibungen – auf diesem Weg. Die Choreographin und Tanzperformerin Paola Bianchi wird mich dabei länger begleiten. Der Sängerin Anna Clare Hauf, der Oboistin und Lektorin Molly McDolan sowie dem hervorragendem Ensemble airborne extended und der Klangregisseurin Christina Bauer möchte ich für ihre künstlerische Mitarbeit danken. Da ich von der Barockmusik her komme und von dort vielfach inspiriert bin, ist das eine ideale Besetzung für eine erste Performance im Transit, für einen Ausgangspunkt. Überraschendes trat vor Kurzem über meine Familiengeschichte – genauer: über meinen Großvater väterlicherseits – zutage. Folglich wurzelt Dusk Songs tief in der Vergangenheit und weist zugleich in die Zukunft.

Fotos: Paola Bianchi by Francesco Balestrazzi, Pia Palme by Maria Frodl.

Dank an die SKE / austro mechana und an den echoraum.
Gefördert vom Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
Artistic Research Projekt AR537.
Residency unterstützt vom Örö Residency Programme, Arts Council of Finland und Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland.

12/04/2019,  7 pm
Forum Stadtpark, Graz

Book presentation Dr. Irene Suchy, Dr. Susanne Kogler
Perfomers: Pia Palme, Mia Zabelka

30/03/2019 7:30 pm
Reaktor, 1170 Wien, Geblergasse 40

21/03/2019  7:30 pm
Schloss Großrußbach, Austria

Choir gegenstimmen performs 
STROPHE (Pia Palme 2018)

https://www.gegenstimmen.org/site/page/gigs

13-15/03/2019

Paris, various locations
Unesco, Universität Paris-Est, University Sorbonne and Czech Embassy,
Austrian Embassy and Cultural Forum Prag

Colloque être compositrice
Symposium WOMEN COMPOSERS IN THE 21ST CENTURY

Wednesday 13/03/2019  12:00 noon
Performing the Compositional Practice

Elisabeth Harnik / Pia Palme
lecture & piano & electronics & contrabass flute
 
presented by Marie-Therese Rudolph, musicologist

14/03/2019, 1.10 pm
University of Manchester (UK) Lunchtime Concert Series

Trio Atem
Nina Whiteman, mezzo soprano
Gavin Osborn, flutes
Alice Purton, cello

performs their 10th birthday commission

HER VERY NOISE, HER GUISE (2017)
for mezzo, bass fl, vcl, with a text of mine

Watch here >>>

Friday 08/03/2019   8:00 PM
Festival WIR HABEN EINE WAHL by IMA Institut für Medienarchäologie

Musikperformance von / music performance by Pia Palme
ENTSCHEIDE / The Womb Manifesto

Ein performatives Ritual für Stimme, Kontrabassflöte und Elektronik zur Stärkung von Wahlfreiheit und Entscheidungskraft von Frauen. 

A performative ritual for vocals, contrabass flute, and electronics intended to strengthen woman’s freedom of choice and decision-making power. 

Listen to a sound excerpt here

Will also be covered in Radio Ö1 Zeit-Ton Magazin
Wednesday 06/03/2019  23:03-24:00 by Heinrich Deisl

Upcoming publication: my lecture performance
held at the FAU Erlangen in 2018
Performing Gender as Polyphony

will be published, in the format of an article, as part of the book
Irene Lehmann / Katharina Rost / Rainer Simon (Hg.)
Staging Gender –Reflexionen aus Theorie und Praxis
der performativen Künste

https://www.transcript-verlag.de/detail/index/sArticle/4453/sCategory/311000195

Ensemble gegenstimmen performing
STROPHE (Palme 2018) for mixed choir

as part of their programme
Unsere 20 schönsten Zahn­techniker­Innen­lieder

17/01/2019 20:00 TAG – Theater an der Gumpendorferstraße
18/01/2019 20:00 TAG – Theater an der Gumpendorferstraße
17/02/2019 19:00 KosmosTheater Wien