Forthcoming
Palme, P. (2025?). Playing with the entanglement. A composer’s practice in the context of the posthuman convergence. Essay after my keynote for the Composition and Research symposium 2023, GMPU Klagenfurt.
Recent publications
Book:
Lehmann, Irene & Palme, Pia (eds). (2022). Sounding Fragilities. An Anthology. Wolke, Hofheim. ISBN 978-3-95593-129-2
Order the book / get a free download here: https://www.wolke-verlag.de/musikbuecher/lehmann-palme-sounding-fragilities/
Book chapters:
Palme, P. (2025). WIE WIR WOLLEN – Über das Festival e_may als Beispiel für Empowerment und Aktivismus in der neuen Musik. Ein Erfahrungsbericht. Book article, in Empowerment. Wissen und Geschlecht in Musik Theater Film (mdw Gender Wissen, Bd. 10), Ellmeier, A., Ingrisch, D., Walkensteiner-Preschl, C. (eds). Böhlau, Wien 2025. ISBN: 978-3-205-22214-9
Palme, P. (2024). Rauschen. An excursion across the border between the wanted and the unwanted – and then back again. Book article, in A Sound Word Almanac. Herzogenrath, Bernd (ed.). Bloomsbury Academic, New York/London 2024. ISBN HB 979-8-7651-0905-2
Palme, P. (2023). Texts and Writings as Agencies in Composition. A Posthuman Tractate. Book article, in Text as Source and Material in Contemporary Music Theatre (Studien zur Wertungsforschung 65). Brüstle, Christa (ed.). Universal Edition, Wien/London/New York 2023, ISBN 978-3-7024-7793-6 Read the pdf here >>>
Palme, P. (2019). Performing Gender as Polyphony. Book article, in Staging Gender – Reflexionen aus Theorie und Praxis der performativen Künste, Lehmann, I., Rost, K., Simon, R. (eds). transcript Verlag, Bielefeld. ISBN 978-3-8376-4655-9
Essays, journal articles, video lectures:
Palme, P. (2023). A short essay for mica music Austria about the climate crisis and music industry, available under https://www.musicaustria.at/umfrage-klimakrise-und-nachhaltigkeit-im-musikbetrieb-wie-denkt-pia-palme-darueber/
Palme, P. (2022). Composing with a Polluted Planet. Conference paper publication and video+lecture, in Performing, Engaging, Knowing: Proceedings of the 7th Study Group Meeting of the ICTM Study Group on Applied Ethnomusicology. Lucerne, Switzerland, University of Applied Sciences and Arts. Under https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7274072
Palme, P (2021). WITH. Towards an ecosystem in music and practice. A paper given by Pia Palme for the eavesdropping symposium 2021, London. Watch under https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCp-svAWLoQ
Palme, P. (2020). Komponieren im Anthropozän. Ein persönlicher Text zum Stück Wechselwirkung. An essay printed in the essay-volume of the festival wienmodern 2020. Download the pdf here >>>
Palme, P. (2017). NOTATIONEN AUS ZORN: AUTO-ETHNOGRAPHISCHE TEXTE ZU EINER PERFORMANCE ÜBER DEN DRITTEN RAUM. Journal article, in FKW // Zeitschrift für Geschlechterforschung und visuelle Kultur Issue 63, December 2017.
Read the article here >>> Notationen aus Zorn:Palme FKW
Link to the journal >>> http://www.fkw-journal.de/index.php/fkw
BLOGS
Blog [April-May 2022] during the residence as a Saari Fellow in Saarinen, Finland, and about travelling through Europe.
BLOG SAARI 2022 >>>
Blog [2019-2022] during the artistic research project On the Fragility of Sounds at the KUG University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, funded by the FWF Austrian Science Fund AR537.
A COMPOSER’S BLOG [selfethnographic] >>>
Blog [November 2018] during a month-long residency at the tiny island Örö in the Finnish archipelago. The island is a National Park and historic site. The blog was written in cooperation with the festival Wien Modern 2018 featuring texts, poems, performances, sounds, pictures, and videos.
Embedded Remote Security Blog >>>
Blog [August 2017] during a month-long stay as Artist in Residence at q-02 Workspace in Bruxelles.
No noise is an island Blog [q-02] >>>
Blog [May 2013] during my stay at the Teahouse Artist Residence in Tehran, Iran. For one month, I lived and worked in the tea pavilion in the middle of the old park of the Iranian Austrian Embassy. This blog features texts, photos, recordings, stories, documenting workshops, concerts, interactions with Iranian artists. Teahouse Tehran Blog >>>
Keynotes, lectures + recent paper presentations (selected)
Palme, P. (2025). Exploring a new sensibility and more-than-human practice in composition. A posthuman approach towards music and performance. Lecture as part of the series “Perceiving Nature(s): Epistemic, Artistic, and Political Practices as Contested Fields”, University of Graz, Core Research Area of the Faculty of Humanities | Perception. Read the abstract here >>>
Palme, P. (2024). Playing with the entanglement. Practising music, composition, and performance in the context of the posthuman convergence. Inaugural lecture 2024 @Universidade de Aveiro, Departamento de Comunicação e Arte.
Palme, P. (2024). Forever Apart, Forever Inventive. Paper presentation @Workshop Perception, Listening, Mimesis and Critique. Concepts and Theories of Aesthetic Experience. As part of the FWF PEEK project “Sound as Score”, University of Graz in cooperation with musikprotokoll 2024. Read the abstract here >>>
Palme, P. (2024). Something new is something lost. A personal investigation of the culture/zoe/technology continuum. Video Essay presented @Jahrestagung Gender Studies Association Austria (ÖGGF) “Humans – Machines – Environments”, University of Graz & Graz University of Technology. Read the abstract here >>>
Palme, P. (2023). On composition as ecology. A posthuman tractate. Keynote lecture @Symposium Composition & Research, Gustav-Mahler University Klagenfurt, Austria. Read the abstract here >>>
Palme, P. & Valkenburg, G. (2023). TIME(S) ON EARTH. Performance lecture with spoken texts & a music performance by Palme (bass recorder) & Valkenburg (alto sax), texts by Palme & Valkenburg, composition & video by Pia Palme, @14th SAR Conference TOO EARLY TOO LATE, Trondheim, Norway. Read the abstract under https://sar2023.no/node/33
Palme, P. & Fischer-Lessiak, Ch. (2019). Performing a feminist utopia: Music theatre as democratic practice. Revision: M. McDolan, M. An essay originally presented at the Music and Democracy: Beyond Metaphors and Idealisation Study Days, convenors: Igor Contreras Zubillaga and Robert Adligton, University of Huddersfield, UK, 20+21 June 2019. Read the pdf here >>>
Palme, P. (2015). Muster des Zorns. Hintergründe und Entstehungsprozesse meiner Kompositionen für Stimme. Lecture presented @Symposium WIENMODERN „Vergiß das populare nicht“. Das Universum Stimme in der Neuen Musik, 21.11.2015. In Zusammenarbeit mit dem Institut für Musikalische Stilforschung sowie dem Institut Antonio Salieri (Gesang in der Musikpädagogik) der mdw Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien. Link zum Artikel als pdf >>>
Other publications
My doctoral portfolio and thesis (doctor of philosophy)
The noise of mind: A feminist practice in composition
Pia Palme 2017, University of Huddersfield.
My written thesis can be read here >>> Thesis_Palme_2017
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For more scholarly writing, also look at my PEEK research project website:
www.fragilityofsounds.org
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Interview with Thomas Heher >>>
Christina Lessiak and Pia Palme talk with Thomas Heher, founder and director of Waves Vienna festival, about the situation of women in music business and the initiative Keychange.
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An interview
“Im Zweifelsfall mehr reden als weniger” Die Composer-Performerin Pia Palme im Gespäch mit Peter Motzkus, appeared in Seiltanz. Beiträge zur Musik der Gegenwart. Herausgeber Stefan Drees, Gordon Kampe, Peter Motzkus. Ausgabe 17, Oktober 2018. ISSN 2191-0499
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My score AX.WHO. (2009) was featured in the The Wire 399/ May 2017, in their series The inner sleeve, presented and discussed by Electric Indigo.
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An article about my realisation of Éliane Radigue’s OCCAM XVIII for contrabass recorder solo, and about the composer’s method of oral score transmission. Read the pdf here >>> Notes on Radigue (Palme 2017)
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A comprehensive article about my work by the musicologist Dr. Susanne Kogler
“A Nomad of Sound: The Austrian-born Composer, Interpreter, and Performer Pia Palme”
published in Musicologica Austriaca. Link to the article >>> http://www.musau.org/parts/neue-article-page/view/36
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A brief investigation (unpublished)
Exploring the Male Ear
Pia Palme and f:p 2016/17
Read the sketch here >>> https://piapalme.at/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Exploring-the-Male-Ear-1.pdf
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Pia Palme 2015
Drawing on Paper, from Mind to Voice
About the background and concept of my piece SETZUNG, published in
CERENEM Ricercata Journal /Issue #5 /spring 2015 University of Huddersfield,
Read the article here >>>
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Pia Palme 2015
The Politics of Resonance
In: Divergence Press Issue #4/ spring 2015, University of Huddersfield Cerenem
Read the article here >>>
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Pia Palme 2011
This is a text about audio scores, a compositional concept I developed for the compositions CANTU FOLIATO and BARE BRANCHES: >>> Using audioscores:
a concept for a piece for vocal ensemble/choir
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Pia Palme 2014
LIP OF THE REAL version II: Composing the noise of mind published in CERENEM Ricercata Journal /Issue #4, University of Huddersfield.
Read the article here >>> CeReNeM_Journal_Palme
The complete journal is online under
http://issuu.com/cerenem/docs/cerenem_journal_issue_4
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An extended Portrait Pia Palme was published by the Online-magazine terz.cc of June 2013, including a statement by Liza Lim, biographical material, and a review of ABSTRIAL.
Read as pdf >>> Portrait Pia Palme
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BOUNDARY LAYER LISTENING
A text score and text about a listening station
for a soundwalk, Schaeffer-style >>>
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Interview
Philosophische Brocken. Natascha Gruver im Gespräch mit Pia Palme.
The audiofile can be downloaded at the
“Philosophische Audiothek” >>> http://audiothek.philo.at
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Andreas Felber about Pia Palme:
Entkonditionierungs-Versuche
Der Standard, 16. Mai 2011 >>> link zum Text
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