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!
April 29/2020
Portrait concert Pia Palme
@ONB Austrian National Library
Musiksammlung
with Anna C. Hauf,
ensemble airborne extended, Molly McDolan
March-April 2020
Intensive research cooperation, workshop, and presentations
with the Programme
Composing Women
University of Sydney|Prof. Liza Lim
March 26/2020
Workshop/lecture
Pia Palme at Monash University, Australia
April 1/2020
Workshop/lecture
Pia Palme at University of Sydney, Australia
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
video still
video still
paper score installation
score & choreography for percussion performer
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)
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
Ensemble gegenstimmen performing
STROPHE (Palme 2018) for mixed choir
as part of their programme
Unsere 20 schönsten ZahntechnikerInnenlieder
18/10/2018 19:30 Bockkeller Wien
19/10/2018 20:00 Musikverein Wien
22/11/2018 20:00 Ehrbar Saal Wien
November 1-30/2018
Örö Residency Programme | www.öres.fi
As Artist in Residence
I spend the entire month at Örö, a remote island in Finland
composing, performing, filming, writing.
In cooperation with Wien Modern 2018
Embedded Remote Security Blog
https://wienmodern.at/Home/WienModern/Embedded-Remote-Security-Blog
The residency and work is supported by SKE Fonds Austria and the
Örö Residency Programme.
During this residency, I plan to work on a series of outdoor and indoor performances, as well as associated compositions to be performed at a later time. The idea of my performances and experiments is to listen deeply into and at the specific sites, including plant and animal life, and at the same time into my own mind and body. In particular, I want to explore into the connection or conflicts between nature & humanity, warfare & artistic action, military architecture and biological patterns. I intend to look into closeness and distance in communication, working with perception, reflection, and imagination.
How far can I go?
How deep can I listen?
Do I still feel secure?
Can I stay with the trouble, with the precariousness?
Can I stay with the vulnerability and gentleness?
Where does sound find stability?
The proposed performances can be composed of several disciplines, such as music, sound art, field recording, video, installations, texts, and instrumental performance on site (I bring my Kueng-contrabass recorder). In my practice, the elements I compose with react and interact with each other, like living beings. Left alone, they develop a life of their own, in a biological way.
I understand what I do as putting together a hot heap of compost, that is, I bring together artistic and sonic matter – to ‘compose’ means to ‘bring together’. This way, the compositional practice becomes a biological process – composting as an approach towards art.
pia palme by maria frodl
29.10.2018 | 23:03 Uhr | Radio Ö1
https://oe1.orf.at/programm/20181029/530731
Excerpts of the composition MY ROOM, UNTIL YESTERDAY (2017)
are played, among others, in a feature by Dr. Nina Polaschegg.
More about the work can be read here >>>
10/2018 to 04/2019 Wahlbüro XX TÉCHNE
Linzerstrasse 17, St. Pölten
Project and exhibtion
Wir haben eine Wahl
Opening 18/10/2018 6:00 pm
Office Hours: Di, Mi, Do 3:00 pm – 7:00 pm (except public holidays)
Christmas Break: 24 12 2018 – 07 01 2019
Concept: Seppo Gründler, Elisabeth Schimana and Tamara WilhelmExperts: Lenka Kocisova, Karin Macke, Norbert Math, Christian Munk, Pia Palme, Andreas Rathmanner and Markus Wintersberger
Showing my installation & booklet
ENTSCHEIDE (Pia Palme 2018)
26/09/2019 @ MUK Vienna
the composition
AUS DER NÄHE (2018)
for oboe da caccia solo
is performed at MUK Musik und Kunst Privatuniversität Wien
at the symposium
NEUGIERIG AUF NEUE MUSIK:
TAGUNG PUBLIKUMSENTWICKLUNG IN DER NEUEN MUSIK
http://www.muk.ac.at/home.html
12/09/2018 @ QUANTEN – Kammer für Musik | 19:30 Uhr
Siebensterngasse 32-34, 1070 Wien
http://thomas-stempkowski.com/quanten-kammer-fuer-musik/
14/09/2019 @ Kanjiža / Magyarkanizsa, Serbia
Festival KA:JAZZ #23
Where the roots meet contemporary improvised music
Duo
Pia Palme | Thomas Stempkowski
contrabass recorder & double bass
08/09/2019, 19:30
Weingut Nittnaus Gols, Austria
Ambitus & Reconsil
Ensemble Reconsil premieres my new work
to defy austerity
a contemporary exercise for ensemble
for trumpet, alto saxophone, tenor trombone, violin, viola, violoncello
08/09/2018, 12:00 Sound brunch @ Lentos museum
as part of IMA’s exhibition Hidden Alliances [06/09 – 30/09]
@ Ars Electronica Linz
https://ima.or.at/hidden-alliances-programm/
I perform
Éliane Radigue’s OCCAM XVIII
for contrabass recorder solo (no electronics, no amplification)
The composition follows an oral score realised in cooperation with Radigue in 2014. I will talk about the work and its realisation afterwards.
An article about the process of the piece can be read here >>>
This summer is extraordinarily hot in Vienna – as in many parts of Europe.
My favourite spot these days, near the city, in the ‘Wiener Hausberge’, and an improvisation performed in a cool studio space.
21/6/2018, 19:00
Künstlerhaus 1050 Vienna
Music performance with contrabass recorder solo
for the opening night of
RED lines – connected by Aiko Kazuko Kurosaki
Photo by Petra Paul
26/05 & 27/05
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Institut für Theater- und Medienwissenschaft
As part of the workshops and performances
Gender on Stage
http://www.theater-medien.de/itm-workshop-gender-on-stage-am-26-27-mai-2018/
Saturday 17:00 – 17:45
I present the performance lecture
No Noise is an Island –
Gender als performative Vielstimmigkeit
Kann ein Genderkonzept ‘mit anderen Ohren’ gedacht, komponiert und aufgeführt werden? Die Komponistin Pia Palme erforscht seit Jahren ihre Umgebung über die Wahrnehmung des Hörens. Für ‘No Noise is an Island’ geht sie von der Annahme aus, dass eine feministische Haltung die persönlichen Hörgewohnheiten verändern kann: das Hintergrundrauschen der Gesellschaft wird wahrgenommen, der jeweilige Umgebungsraum in seiner Stille und Tiefe ausgelotet. Die Verletzbarkeit der individuellen menschlichen Existenz wird zum fragilen Klangereignis, zum flüchtigen Geräusch. Körper werden hörbar und interagieren auf akustische Weise. Die Hörwahrnehmung ist ein kreativer und performativer Akt; das Ohr kann die Strukturen menschlicher Interaktionen in ihrer Vielstimmigkeit – samt den darin wirksamen Genderidentitäten – genau, detailliert, flexibel und als Ganzes kartografieren. Mit diesen Themen im Zusammenhang mit der aktuellen Neuverhandlung des Genderbegriffes gilt es, performativ zu experimentieren.
Die Künstlerin mischt dafür theoretische Untersuchungen mit Elementen des Storytelling sowie elektronische mit instrumentaler Musik. Ein Video über eine Insel aus Gras inmitten in einer Regenlache dient als Angelpunkt für einen vielfältigen Diskurs – über das Hören als feministische Praxis, über die Erforschung innerer und äußerer Klang- und Körperwelten und über den Kompositionsvorgang als politische Handlung. Die Komponistin stellt die Körperlichkeit der Performance der Entkörperung im digitalen Alltag gegenüber; sie präsentiert mit den Mitteln heutiger Musik ein Modell für ein polyphones Genderkonzept, das zugleich fließend und präzise sein kann.
04/05 & 05/05 CREAU, 1020 Wien 20:00
Salon d’Amour
among others,
10:30
aka Molly McDolan (baroque oboes) &
Pia Palme (contrabass recorder & electronics)
perform in this production of the aktionstheater ensemble
With Michaela Bilgeri, Silvi Spechtenhauser, Ursula Knoll, Ansari Puneh, Claudia Virgina / Dornwittchen), das Schrei, Bis eine heult, 10:30 (Molly McDolan, Pia Palme), Saedi, Chor der schweigenden Männer: Fabian Schiffkorn, Thomas Kolle, Andreas Jähnert, Sasha Jähnert, Benjamin Vanyek, Florian Haderer
Konzept / Idee: Martin Gruber / Martin Ojster
Sunday, 15/04/2018, 20:00 on time
Neue Musik St. Ruprecht
Ruprechtskirche / Ruprechtsplatz 1 / 1010 Wien
Disputable Divas – die Stimme in der Moderne
Ein Projekt von Ensemble Schallfeld mit Annette Schönmüller
Ensemble Schallfeld
Szilárd Benes, Klarinette / Bassklarinette
Davide Gagliardi, Elektronik / Klangregie
Nikolaus Feinig, Kontrabass
Solistin: Annette Schönmüller, Stimme
perform my work THREE NOISES (2017)
among works by Luciano Berio, Elisabeth Harnik, Katharina Klement, Pauline Oliveros,
and Lorenzo Troiani
Sunday 15/04/2018, 7 PM
@IKLECTIK London
http://iklectikartlab.com
No Noise is an Island
Performance-lecture Pia Palme solo
Friday, 13/04/2018 8PM
Chapter Arts, Cardiff
Transversal Time by Rhodri Davies
Rhodri Davies (Harp)
Ryoko Akama (Electronics)
Sarah Hughes (Zither)
Sofia Jernberg (Vocals)
Pia Palme (Contrabass recorder)
Lucy Railton (Cello)
Pat Thomas (Piano, Electronics)
Dafne Vicente-Sandoval (Bassoon)
Adam Parkison (Programming)
Wednesday, 21/03/2018 10:00 – 16:00
MUK Privatuniversität für Musik und Kunst Wien
1010 Johannesgasse 4
http://www.muk.ac.at/veranstaltung
I give workshops and a
lecture performance
No noise is an island
including the new piece
Aus der Nähe (2018) für oboe da caccia
performed by Ana Inés Feola
Thursday 15/03/2018 8 PM
The Fruitmarket Gallery
45 Market Street, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Trio ATEM
Gavin Osborn | flutes
Nina Whiteman | mezzo soprano
Alice Purton | cello
performs
HER VERY NOISE, HER GUISE (Palme 2017)
and works by Fabrice Fitch and Gavin Osborn
Two new scores are now ready to be performed later this year.
STROPHE for mixed choir
was commissioned by the Vienna-based choir Gegenstimmen. The ensemble connects people who love to sing and think politically. The text for STROPHE was provided by the choir, it was compiled from texts the singers had written. For the short and minimal composition, my focus was to organise and sculpt the singers as a social body. The choir becomes a community that vocally contracts and expands, and is at times synchronised, at other times not, sometimes in unison and sometimes divided into separate strings of voices with different sonic roles that keep changing. Organic minimalism?
AUS DER NÄHE for oboe da caccia solo
Here, I take up an idea that had grown into a couple versions between 2011 and 2014 and bring it into a new form. I’m very much looking forward to hearing this one live; I love the baroque oboe instruments. The sheer haptic experience of the oboe da caccia is a feast: the curved instrument is coated with black leather. Also, thanks to the oboist and caccia-performer Molly McDolan, with whom I collaborated on a number of occasions; her expertise and marvellous instrument once again inspired the work.
Friday 26/01/2018, 7.30 pm
Rymer Auditorium, University of York Music Department
Gavin Osborn as curve through points to see (2017)
Fabrice Fitch Per Serafino Calbarsi (2002–)
Rob Corrin cracks and things (2017)
Pia Palme HER VERY NOISE, HER GUISE (2017)
Nina Whiteman House of Mazes (2017)
Friday 19/01/2018, 8:30/9:00 pm
On the Couch @1030 Salesianergasse 10/1 feature
No noise is an island
Performance-Lecture Pia Palme
& Duo Palme/Eberhard
Pia Palme, recorder, electronics
Alexander J. Eberhard, viola, electronics
Wednesday 17/01/2018, 7:30 pm
Michael Tippett Centre, Bath Spa University
Trio ATEM performs
Nina Whiteman House of Mazes (2017)
Pia Palme HER VERY NOISE, HER GUISE (2017)
Matthew Sergeant The Velvet Rage (2017)
My article
NOTATIONEN AUS ZORN: AUTO-ETHNOGRAPHISCHE TEXTE ZU EINER PERFORMANCE ÜBER DEN DRITTEN RAUM
was published in
FKW // Zeitschrift für Geschlechterforschung und visuelle Kultur Issue 63, December 2017
Read the article here: Notationen aus Zorn:Palme FKW
Link to journal: http://www.fkw-journal.de/index.php/fkw
09/12/2017 Forum Stadtpark, Graz 7:30 pm
Annette Schönmüller and Davide Gagliardi (Ensemble Schallfeld) perform
THREE NOISES ohne zu denken singt sie nicht (2017)
for mezzo soprano and speaker installation
in a new version
at Ensemble Schallfeld’s concert Innere Stimme
http://www.schallfeldensemble.com/event/innere-stimme/
07/12/2017 University of Durham, Department of Music 7:00 pm
Trio ATEM performs
HER VERY NOISE, HER GUISE (2017)
06/12/2017 Croatian National Radio, 8:00 pm
presents Festival Novalis.
Listen to ensemble Schallfeld performing
VOM RAUSCH IM SCHWARM (2015-16)
version for ensemble & wind machine
23/11/2017 Bates Mill 10:30 pm
hcmf Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
http://hcmf.co.uk/event/23-rhodri-davies/
With the Kueng contrabass recorder, I will perform as part of
Rhodri Davies: Transversal Time (World Premiere)
Ryoko Akama electronics
Rhodri Davies harp
Sarah Hughes zither
Catherine Lamb viola
Stine Janvin Motland vocals
Pia Palme contrabass recorder
Pat Thomas piano / electronics
Dafne Vicente-Sandoval bassoon
Adam Parkinson programming
10/11/2017 Splendor, Amsterdam
http://splendoramsterdam.com/2017/11/10/
LUISTER
Elise Schimana, Anne La Berge, Pia Palme
performing works by Éliane Radigue, Elisabeth Schimana, Anne La Berge, Pia Palme
showing IMAfiction eliane radigue, IMAfiction anne la berge
I will perform
The Vertical Ear: Charting the White Spaces of Listening (2017)
for contrabass recorder, texts, electronics, video
and
Éliane Radigue, OCCAM XVIII for contrabass recorder solo
video still ‘The vertical ear’
7/11/2017 Odeon Wien
Festival Wien Modern
in cooperation with ISCM Austria/Junge Musik and Musikschule Wien
MY ROOM UNTIL YESTERDAY (2017)
minimalist music theatre
for/with 14 performers between 7 – 19 years
idea, production & direction: Pia Palme
for voice, 2 accordions, harpsichord, piano,
3 solo recorders, recorder quintet, percussion, electronics, video
with texts and video in cooperation with the performers
Commissioned by IGNM and supported by BKA Austria
Masks in cooperation with Wintercroft UK
MY ROOM, UNTIL YESTERDAY part of the ensemble
17/11/2017 Remise Bludenz 20:00
BTzM Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik
http://allerart-bludenz.at/btzm/
Quartetto Maurice
Laura Bertolino, Aline Privitera,
Georgia Privitera, Francesco Vernero
premiere my new work commissioned by BTzM
KREISUNG (2017)
for string quartet, zuspielung & video
together with works by Yukiko Watanabe, Alexander Chernyshkov, Joanna Bailie.
video still KREISUNG
Program note
“Für dieses Werk umkreise ich einen überaus großen Baum, eine gewaltige Platane. Dieses alte Lebewesen steht inmitten einer grünen Senke in einem Randbezirk von Wien, umringt von pastellfarbenen Häusern aus den Fünfzigerjahren (zum Großteil Sozialbauten der Gemeinde Wien, die bis zu neun Stockwerke hoch sind). Der Baum bildet ein mächtiges und doch ruhiges Zentrum, er füllt den Kreis der Bauten und ragt darüber hinaus in den Himmel. Er ist ein Relikt einer einst weiten Gartenlandschaft, die an dieser Stelle im 19. Jahrhundert angelegt wurde und mittlerweile längst zerteilt und verbaut ist. Der Bach zu seinen Wurzeln ist eingehäust; unbemerkt rinnt das Wasser heute tief unter den Häusern Stadt. Ich umrunde den Baum, ziehe engere Kreise. Stiller ist es hier und kühl, eine feuchte Frische steigt vom Boden auf und weckt ein fernes Bild einer Landschaft aus einer anderen Zeit. Die wuchtige Kraft der Platane berührt mich, ich horche hinter den Lärm der Stadt. Die feine Stimme der Sehnsucht durchbricht das Hintergrundrauschen der Vergänglichkeit. Unter der zerfurchten Rinde steigt meine Wut hinauf bis in die höchsten Äste und tanzt mit den Blättern im Wind.”
27/10/2017
International Anthony Burgess Foundation, Manchester
https://www.anthonyburgess.org
03/11/2017
University of Leeds
10th birthday commission for trio Atem
http://www.trio-atem.co.uk/index.html
Trio Atem
Nina Whiteman, mezzo soprano
Gavin Osburn, flutes
Alice Purton, violoncello
perform the WP of my new work
HER VERY NOISE, HER GUISE (2017)
for mezzo soprano, bass flute and violoncello
[text by Pia Palme]
together with works by Mic Spencer, Gavin Osborn, Elizabeth Ditmanson, Rob Corrin, Nina Whiteman.
Program note
This work is written along the mechanisms of perception and listening, as observed by the composer during her process of working. The vocal part features fractured voice personalities: in a very personal way, Pia Palme re-composes ficticious inner and outer soundscapes. Intimate thoughts are voiced, hidden voices become audible, the “space between her ears” is amplified and appears as a noisy counterpart to the singing voice. In a format that draws on the baroque bass continuo structure, the solistic vocal part contrasts the cello part, with the bass flute hovering in between: the flute merges the flow of breath, articulation (an activity that connects to the speaking voice and happens in one’s mouth, in one’s body cavities) and instrumentality. Palme’s English and German text reflects on how perception, dreams, and imagination are fired by a deep longing to connect to the world.
28-30/09/2017 ZKM Karlsruhe/Kubus
I will perform at the opening night at 19:30 of the
RESONANT WORLDS: Sound, Art & Science / ISACS 2017
THE VERTICAL EAR :
CHARTING THE WHITE SPACES OF LISTENING (2017)
solo-performance with contrabass recorder, electronics & video
lecture & storytelling
details TBA on:
http://isacs.soundartcurating.org
http://zkm.de/news
video still
20/09/2017
The independent festival for art and music
Paraflows Vienna
1090 Wien, Garnisongasse 7
presents my current solo-performance
with contrabass recorder, electronics & video
Studie zu/Investigation into
Vertical Ears.
Charting the white spaces of listening. (2017)
lecture & storytelling
http://paraflows.at/index.php?id=714
https://esel.at/termin/92301
17/09/2017
Festival Klangspuren Tirol/Pilgerwanderung
presents two works of mine on this day.
http://www.klangspuren.at/klangspurenschwaz/
This is a day of hiking together, and listening to concerts on the way.
Great scenery, great mountains, and new sounds.
Performers:
Claudia Cervenca / Joan La Barbara, voice
Schallfeld Ensemble
10.30, Pfarrkirche Going*)
Performers: Ensemble Schallfeld
VOM RAUSCH IM SCHWARM II (2016)
für Ensemble und Windmaschine, mit Text
*) Going is a village in Tirol.
18.00 Uhr, Pfarrkirche Hl. Josef, Itter
HOMMAGE À JOAN LA BARBARA (curated by Claudia Cervenca)
Claudia Cervenca will perform
my new work
Three Noises (2017)
for voice & electronic playback
[Homage to Morton Feldman and Joan La Barbara]
Other works by Anahita Abbasi and Joan La Barbara herself!
8 & 9/09/2017
Ultima Festival Oslo
OCCAM Ocean by Éliane Radigue
Performers:
Rhodri Davies (harp)
Dafne Vicente-Sandoval (bassoon)
Pia Palme (contrabass recorder)
(curated by Rhodri Davies)
http://www.ultima.no/en/events/eliane-radigue-occam-11
http://www.ultima.no/en/events/eliane-radigue-occam-river
Sept. 8th:
OCCAM XIII (2015) for bassoon
OCCAM XVIII (2014) for contrabass-recorder
OCCAM I (2011) for solo harp
Sept. 9th:
OCCAM RIVER XIII (2015) duo for bassoon and harp
OCCAM RIVER VI (2014) duo
for contrabass-recorder and harp
Both concerts sold out already!
No noise is an island
I’m in the Q-O2 workspace in Brussels for a residency.
To read about my experiences, reflections, and work,
visit my blog >>>
28/08/2017 Zadar, Croatia
30/08/2017 Zagreb, Croatia
At
Novalis Festival Croatia
Ensemble Schallfeld
performs my work
VOM RAUSCH IM SCHWARM II.av (2016)
for ensemble, electronics and video
http://www.schallfeldensemble.com/en/concerts/novalis-festival/
https://www.novalisfestival.com
Videostill by Pia Palme
28/08/2017
Post-residency performance
NO NOISE IS AN ISLAND
For contrabass recorder, voice, texts, video & electronics
Duration: 50 Minutes
Q-O2 workspace, Brussels
From 18-30/08/2017 I am
Artist in Residence at Q-O2
workspace for experimental music and sound art,
Bruxelles
http://www.q-o2.be/en/
In the heat of this summer, I’m working on/finishing/rehearsing a number of projects and commissions for fall.
Looking forward to festivals Klangspuren Tirol, Ultima Norway, Wien Modern, hcmf and a cooperation with Rhodri Davies, to ensemble Schallfeld (Zagreb, festival Novalis in Zadar, and in Going – yes, that’s a village in Tirol), Claudia Cervenca (Tirol), Trio ATEM and Nina Whiteman (premieres in Leeds, Manchester…), ZKM (a multimedia lecture-performance), Bludenz, an artist-residency in Bruxelles… and more…
So, here I’m wearing the doctoral garment and hat
for the official ceremony at the university.
doctoral selfie
Friday, May 26th, 7 PM
ESC Medienkunstlabor Graz
trio palme/wassermann/maierhofer-lischka @ V:NM Festival Graz
Pia Palme – contrabass recorder
Ute Wassermann – voice
Margarethe Maierhofer-Lischka – double bass
A great festival of experimental and new music from May 24th – 27th, various locations in Graz.
Pia Palme by Maria Frodl
My last performance at moe
before it closes down on Sunday…
Tuesday, May 23rd, 20:30
moe Vienna, 1170 Thelemanngasse 4
quartet palme/flunger/winston/mcdolan @ VELAK GALA #94
http://velak.klingt.org/site/program/591b629f554cd9f10f27c6df
Pia Palme – contrabass recorder, video, texts
Juna Winston – trombone
Molly McDolan – baroque oboe, oboe da caccia
Elisabeth Flunger – percussion objects
Morton’s ancient cashier desk
composing…composing…composing…
Several commissions wait to be composed, what a change from writing theory. Exposed to the uncontrollable wilderness of imagination.
Rapture
AX.WHO.
Electric Indigo, electronic composer and artist, founder of the female:pressure network, chose my timeline sketch AX.WHO. (2009) as the artwork of the month presented in The Wire (issue May 2017).
Links:
Female: Pressure http://www.femalepressure.net
Electric Indigo http://indigo-inc.at
The Wire https://www.thewire.co.uk/issues/399
Listen to AX.WHO. https://soundcloud.com/palmeworks/ax-who
I am happy and grateful to announce
that I finished my PhD at the University of Huddersfield, a doctor of philosophy in composition by practice and theoretical research.
The title of my thesis is
The noise of mind:
A feminist practice in composition
Huge thanks to my supervisor Prof. Liza Lim and second supervisor Prof. Monty Adkins, to my examiners Prof. Aaron Cassidy and Dr Salomé Voegelin, to the staff and colleagues at university for the lively exchange about music and art, culture, philosophy and political issues over the last years. During part-time research at the University of Huddersfield over the last years (including artistic experiments, performances, symposia, and festivals) I gained a wider understanding of contemporary music and composition in general and of my own process as a composer in particular, and found new territories in my own work.
Monday, February 13th, 7 pm
Porgy&Bess Vienna, Riemergasse 11 – 1010 Wien / Tel.: o1 512 88 11
series Lost & Found (directed by Renald Deppe)
Pia Palme solo
WEISSE HÖRGEBIETE – ein feministischer Atlas des Hörens
[with video, electronics, contrabass recorder, text & lecture]
video still WEISSE HÖRGEBIETE
In dieser Performance nähere ich mich dem Erbe der großen Komponistin und Hörforscherin Pauline Oliveros an, die das Hören als einen politschen Akt bezeichnet hat. Mit Kopf, Körper, Instrument, Stimme und Technik entwerfe ich einen Atlas neuer Hörgebiete aus einer feministischen Haltung heraus. Das persönliche Ohr wird zum politischen Sinnesorgan, mit dem ich meine Umgebung und mein Inneres kritisch erforsche. In den weissen Gebieten auf der Landkarte des Hörens steht die Zeit still, und der Raum weitet sich.
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In this performance I recall the eminent composer and researcher into listening Pauline Oliveros, who defined listening as a political act. Using my mind, body, instrument, voice and electronic media I draw a cartography of unknown territories of listening, from a feminist position. My ears, my personal hearing faculties, became political tools of perception which I use to explore my environs and my own inner worlds in a critical way. As I move into blank spaces on the map of listening, time comes to a stop and space widens.
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More about the performance can be found here >>>
Saturday, January 14th 2017, 5 pm
Phipps Hall, University of Huddersfield UK
Performance Lecture Pia Palme
[voice, contrabass recorder, video & electronics]
THAT I’M ONE AND ALSO TWO
as part of the Symposium Instrumentality/Vocality
https://vocalityinstrumentality2017.wordpress.com
“Fühlst du nicht an meinen Liedern, Daß ich Eins und doppelt bin?”
*Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1815
video still THAT I’M ONE AND ALSO TWO
Radio ORF OE1
Monday, January 9th 2017, 23:05 Zeitton
My work VOM RAUSCH IM SCHWARM III performed by ensemble Kontrapunkte on 7.11.2016 is featured in the series Zeitton (by Ursula Strubinsky).
Sunday, 18.12., 12:00 noon – Hörberatung, 20., Jägerstr. 26
Matinee zur Ausstellung SEXIST! (Illustrationen von Michael Pleesz)
Pia Palme Solo
www.loewenhertz.at/hoerberatung
What a title… but I really like the illustrations by Michael Pleesz presented in this small gallery space.
December 14th, 18:00 – 19:30
Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien
Seminarraum 8, Ferstl-Trakt, 1. Stock
Oskar Kokoschka-Platz 2, 1010 Wien
Performance Lecture Pia Palme
Notationen aus Zorn. Vortrag und Performance
über den dritten Raum nach Donald D. Winnicott.
[voice, contrabass recorder, electronics, video, installation]
Eine großformatige Partitur als Zwischenkörper verschleiert mich als dahinter agierende Performerin und Vortragende. Diese Arbeit dekonstruiert die Körperlichkeit der Performance; zugleich exponiere ich als Komponistin meine prekäre Innenwelt vor der Öffentlichkeit. Komposition und Performance sind politische Handlungen.
Radio ORF OE1
Tuesday, 13. December 2016, 23:08
Series ZEITTON with Franz Josef Kerstinger
Among others, Mona Smale, harp, David Pirrò, sound direction, and Marian Weger, technical setup and can be heard performing GIB SIE WIEDER a warning commentary on resonance II (Palme 2014) here, and online for the next 7 days. Great performers, and very good technical realisation! And thanks to Daniel Mayer and IGNM Styria for the festival and radio show!
Thursday, Dec. 8th, 7:30 PM
@1bm Einbaumöbel Vienna http://1bm.at/la-musa/
Brazilian duo OREM (Marcela Lucatelli & Felipe Zenícola) & Pia Palme
November 30th: I turned in my PhD thesis and portfolio today – 2,5 kg of paperwork for the hard copy, plus data files, including vocal and instrumental scores, electronic music, video, and documentation.
Thanks to the great cellist and photographer Maria Frodl for this portrait!
pia palme by maria frodl
With arbesbach 2016 I started a series of cartographic performances.
After a summer’s work, I’m close to finishing my thesis for an artistic Phd in composition! I will turn in my portfolio and written thesis in November, at the University of Huddersfield, UK.
On November 9th 2016
I will be officially awarded the biennial
Ernst-Krenek-Prize of the City of Vienna
for my body of work as a composer and expecially for my 2015 work MORDACIOUS LIPS, TO DUST.
The ceremony takes place at the Wiener Rathaus https://www.wien.gv.at/verwaltung/rathaus/
November 7th, radio oe1, Zeitton portait Pia Palme
http://oe1.orf.at/programm/453124
Singe den Zorn!
The renowned Austrian radio oe1 will present an hour-long feature of my work. Looking forward to talking with Mirjam Jessa about the composition MORDACIOUS LIPS, TO DUST, about why I find it important to compose politically, my connection to Homer’s Iliad as a modern composer and feminist, about the impact of wrath as an emotion on my work, and how I contrast the physical and the digital in my artistic approach towards the voice.
November 7th, 19:30
Musikverein Wien, Gläserner Saal
Festival Wien Modern
Ensemble Kontrapunkte
VOM RAUSCH IM SCHWARM III (2016 UA)
November 5th, 8:30 pm, Ausland, Berlin
Concert series Biegungen
http://ausland-berlin.de/duthoithautzinger-palmeullenmaierhoferlischka
The Zeroeth Star
Pia Palme – contrabass recorder, electronics
Margarethe Maierhofer-Lischka – double bass
Lisa Ullén – piano
30. September bis 2. Oktober 2016
›Klang‹: Wundertüte oder Stiefkind der Musiktheorie
16. Jahreskongress der Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie (GMTH)
Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover
Panel Margarethe Maierhofer-Lischka, Irene Lehmann und Pia Palme
Abstract Pia Palme (Lecture Performance)
Die Exposition der verkörperten Stimme
In meinem Lecture Recital mische ich eine Analyse meiner Arbeiten mit Performance auf der Kontrabassblockflöte und meinen Videoarbeiten. Ich stelle ein Zitat aus der Ilias an den Anfang, die als einer der ältesten Werke für Stimme gilt, und gleich zu Beginn das Hauptthema Zorn aufgreift. Durch die künstlerische Transformation in klangliches Material werden Inhalte wie Zorn, Streit und Leid strukturiert und episch, also singbar. Fast alle meiner neueren Arbeiten enthalten Stimmen, in irgendeiner Form. Ich definiere die Stimme als “Embodiment”, als Gestalt, verkörperlichte Präsenz, die Stimme, Gefühl, Denken und den Körper umfasst. Dies entspricht einer Perspektive des Wahrnehmungsprozesses, die ebendiese Faktoren berücksichtigt. Dementsprechend fasse ich als Komponistin Klang als eine mehrdimensionale Präsenz auf, die im Fall der Stimme eine emotionale, soziale und kognitive Komponente enthält. Die räumliche Ortung dieser Präsenz ist zwingend ein Teil meiner Arbeit. In meinen Werken positioniere ich die verkörperlichte Stimme.
Ausgehend von Jean-Luc Nancys Idee des Hörens und dem postdramatischen Theaterbegriff von Hans-Thies Lehmann erläutere ich die Exposition der Stimme. Die Interpretin/Sängerin wird gegenüber der Gemeinschaft der Zuhörer exponiert, ausgesetzt und ist damit auf sich selbst zurückgeworfen. Die Zuhörer bilden eine soziale Situation; meine Arbeit als Künstlerin wird dadurch politisch. Mit Jean-Luc Godard sehe ich nicht meine Werke, sehr wohl aber mein Komponieren als politisch an.
Ich komponiere mit Texten, die ich verfasse, um die Dimension des Denkens in meine Werke zu bringen. Diese Texte werden dekonstruiert bis zur Unverständlichkeit, der Klang der Sprache als solches stellt dennoch eine tiefe politische Verbindung zwischen Menschen her. Die Selbstreflexion als feministische Komponistin wird Teil meiner Arbeit: ich exponiere mich selbst, als Komponistin, vor der Gesellschaft.
Meine Lecture setzt Elemente des postdramatischen Theaters in einer musikalisch-performativen Situation um. Verschiedene Ebenen teilen miteinander Raum und Zeit, sind simultan ablaufende Vergänglichkeiten.
Im Zeitraum Juni/Juli 2016
Mitglied der Jury als künstlerischer Beirat
an der Staatlichen Hochschule für Musik Trossingen
für vier neu zu ernennende Professuren im Bereich Medienkomposition
http://www.mh-trossingen.de/home.html
Ensemble Schallfeld rehearsing @pia palme
Friday, 27th May
VOM RAUSCH IM SCHWARM II.av
performed by Ensemble Schallfeld, and my text for the work can be heard on the Austrian radio Ö1 tonight around 11:20 pm.
http://oe1.orf.at/programm/437981
and via web radio during the next 7 days:
http://oe1.orf.at/konsole
Pictures from the festival “tage neuer musik graz” are here:
http://www.tnmg.at/de/galerie
http://www.kultum.at
See the entire programme under:
http://www.tnmg.at/de/programmbuch
Friday, 20. May 20:30
Großer Minoritensaal, Mariahilferplatz 3, 8020 Graz
tage neuer Musik graz, 20. – 22. Mai 2016
http://www.tnmg.at
Ensemble SCHALLFELD performs my newly arranged and refurbished work
VOM RAUSCH IM SCHWARM II.av
for ensemble and video
I will also participate in the round table discussion on
Saturday, 21. Mai 2016, 15:00
ImCubus | Mariahilferplatz 3/I, 8020 Graz
Musik zur Sprache gebracht: Körper, Sprache, Stimme
Leitung: Christa Brüstle
TeilnehmerInnen u.a. Elisabeth Harnik, Pia Palme, Dieter Schnebel, Anahita Abbasi…
Videostill by Pia Palme
A recording of
Patterns to punctuate song, with darkness
for mezzo-soprano with a throat microphone and electronic track
is now available. The recording was supported by Sound and Music soundandmusic.org as a part of their New Voices 2015 program.
Listen to Ute Wassermann performing here:
The work was commissioned by the Salzburg Biennale 2015.
More about the compositions, the iconic punchcard score, visuals and projections, lyrics etc. can be read here >>>
In Mai and June, I am part of the Jury for the selection process for four newly created staff positions at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik Trossingen Germany, www.mh-trossingen.de as an external artistic advisor.
Delightful news, which I happily acknowledge,
amidst this period of intense writing. I’m awarded the
George Butterworth Prize!
To be more precise: the work that won the prize was MORDACIOUS LIPS, TO DUST written for the ensemble EXAUDI in 2015, as part of the Soundandmusic portfolio.
The jury mentioned that they were
“impressed by the beauty and pacing of the work and the skill demonstrated in the handling of the material”
http://www.soundandmusic.org/projects/news-pia-palme-wins-george-butterworth-prize
NEWS: Pia Palme wins the George Butterworth Prize! https://t.co/gpnnD4KYZN
— Pia Palme (@pia_palme) April 11, 2016
Currently,
I write up the final version of my doctoral thesis, an artistic PhD in composition. During work, updates on my website slow down.
29.-30. January 2016
Harvard University Department of Music
festival & symposium
Musical Cartographies
http://www.music.fas.harvard.edu/calendar.html
Lecture performance/composer’s panel Pia Palme :
SETZUNG 1.2
I present my recent work and research about vocality in the context of cartographic notation. In this audiovisual lecture-performance I merge academic presentation, electronic art and live-performance with my contrabass recorder. A huge score-membrane is part of the setting, as in my work SETZUNG 1.1 from 2014.
23. January 2016, 8 pm
The Wulf, Los Angeles
http://thewulf.org
Ute Wassermann solo
performs, among other works, my piece
Patterns to punctuate song, with darkness (2015)
for voice with a throat-microfone, electronics and text,
commissioned for Ute Wassermann by the Salzburg Biennale.
21. January 2016, 8 pm
Kunstinitiative KIG – Kultur in Graz, Lagergasse 98a
Interpenetration Series
http://interpenetration.net/
PUNCTUATED SOUND,
PATTERNED ON SILENCE.
Claudia Cervenca : voice
Margarethe Mayerhofer-Lischka : double bass
Pia Palme : contrabass recorders, electronics, video.
Here I’m the
at the Kunstuniversität Graz KUG
presented by the Institute of Gender Studies.