RESEARCH

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PERFORMING PRECARITY (2019 - 2023, Norwegian Academy of Music): Performing Precarity investigates a new musical paradigm that abandons notions of mastery and instrument-specificity in favour of the idea of the network and its ensuing precarity: What kinds of practices emerge when traditional conceptions of beauty and perfection are relinquished in favour of precarity, fragility, risk, instability, failure, and mutual dependence between performers, composers, technologies, and audiences? What kinds of reflections will emerge out of this repositioning of the performer from “master” to a mutually dependent agent in such a network?

10statements.com (independent research): 10 Statements is a project about collaborative practices in new music initiated by Roberto Maqueda and Jennifer Torrence in 2019. The project invites performers and composers to share and document their own collaborative practices through text, image, audio, and other formats. The goal of the project is to create a space for sharing knowledge, approaches, works, and resources for musicians working or wishing to work in co-creative ways.

LETHE (2021 - 2023, Stockholm University of the Arts): In the project Lethe the research team of Anna Lindal, Andreas Hiroui Larsson, and Johan Jutterström investigates forgetfulness as an artistic method for a musical process, and the project takes its metaphorical point of departure at the Greek mythological river Lethe. Lindal (violin), Larsson (drums), and Jutterström (saxophone) constitute an ensemble, which performs practice-based research on forgetfulness as an artistic method and guiding principle. In Greek mythology, the river Lethe was considered to possess the power of forgetfulness, and the souls who were to enter or leave the underworld [to be reincarnated] drank from the river Lethe to forget, e.g., aspects of their previous life.

QUEER PERCUSSION RESEARCH GROUP (independent research): The Queer Percussion Research Group (QPRG) was founded in 2017 to bring a group of international percussionists together who were independently considering the overlap between percussion and queerness within their practice. Founding members of QPRG are Sarah Hennies (Ithaca), Jerry Pergolesi (Toronto), Bill Solomon (NYC), and Jennifer Torrence (Oslo). Their initial project is a collection of writings in a self-published journal/zine that will coincide with two launch events in Toronto, June 2018. QPRG seeks to recontextualize percussion within a queer paradigm by applying ideas from queer theory to music creation, performance, presentation, and discourse.

PERCUSSION THEATRE: A BODY IN BETWEEN (2015 - 2019, Norwegian Academy of Music): I was a researcher at the Norwegian Academy of Music and the Norwegian Artistic Research Program with the project Percussion Theatre: a body in between. The research resulted in new works created with Peter Swendsen, Francois Sarhan, Trond Reinholdtsen, Wojtek Blecharz, Johan Jutterström, Carolyn Chen, Neo Hülcker, Matt Rogers,  Bethany Younge, Paula Matthusen, Bonnie Whiting.

PLAYING TOGETHER (Norwegian Academy of Music): a project investigating chamber music practices via Berio’s work for two pianos and two percussionists, Linea, and two student compositions. With Kjell Tore Innervik, Ellen Ugelvik, and Sanae Yoshida. Supported by The Arne Nordheim Centre of Artistic Research and CEMPE.

FULBRIGHT SCHOLAR: in 2009-2010 I was a Fulbright Scholar to the UK. There I worked with emerging British composers and collaborated with Amy Cohen on an interdisciplinary performance project, 'THE AGENDA', resulting in 5 new works and performances in London and Washington, DC.

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