ARtistic porfolio

The following work samples were selected for the ways in which they display and relate to the following areas of interest in my practice:

  • Experimental percussion/performance

  • Performance that extends into theatre, movement, and performativity 

  • Composition, collective composition, and collaboration

  • Interdisciplinary collaboration 

  • Spatiality, visuality, multimediality, and physicality in experimental music

  • Improvisation

  • Instrument building, technology, and stage design

For more examples and information about my practice please check the other tabs of this website.

 

INTERVALL (2023), 50’ scenic-compositon by my percussion/performance ensemble Pinquins and object-artist/scenographer Kjersti Alm Eriksen.

"In their collaboration with artist Kjersti Alm Eriksen, Norwegian trio Pinquins deftly manipulate a system of ropes and pulleys attached to a wooden frame, activating kinetic sculptures made from household and industrial objects. Their mechanical ballet makes for a marvelous spectacle, but there's a strong musicality at play, with the swinging sculptures bringing an exciting element of chance."

- Stewart Smith, The Wire, May 2023.

 

Institute for Post-Human Performance Practice (2018), by Trond Reinholdtsen in collaboration with Jennifer Torrence. 56’. Installation-performance and documentary film.

The collaborative process inside this work (as well as in other works) lead to the scholarly article, Rethinking the Performer: Towards a devising performance practice (2018)

Trailer (provided due to length of work sample): https://vimeo.com/217437150

 

I/O (2022), by Jan Martin Smørdal in collaboration with Jennifer Torrence. For performer with body sized mirror with speakers on the back, body-attached microphones (feedback), amplified percussion, surround diffusion, and light.

 

Nine Bells (1978), by Tom Johnson. 52’

This is a performance from my PhD project, Percussion Theatre: a body in between (2019). My performance of this work at the Dark Music Days exhibition “Phonemes” was awarded Best Music Event (Single Event) at the 2020 Icelandic Music Awards.

Trailer (provided due to length of work sample): https://vimeo.com/364883271

 

Library of Gestures (2024), choreography by Janne-Camilla Lyster for 20 dancers, percussionist and flutist - Excerpt - composition and performance by Jennifer Torrence.

 

Animalia I (2020/2022), by Simon Løffler performed by Jennifer Torrence and Inga Margrete Aas.

 

Real World Avatar (2022), for soloist and her avatar (robotic instruments), for Jennifer Torrence by Johan Swenssen.

 

From an imaginary landscape (2021), by Martin Hirsti-Kvam, in collaboration with Jennifer Torrence. 11’.

 

3 staged studies for 1 performer (2022), by Inga Margrete Aas

 

one pulsating heard (2023), by Marina Poleukhina. Performed live at Fra* Musica Nova, Cologne.