Jennifer Torrence

Texts by Jennifer Torrence

Upcoming 2024: Disarming: on the percussion music of Martin Hirsti-Kvam (supported by the Norwegian Composer’s Society)

Performance as device for disorientation, VIS Nordic Journal for Artistic Research #11 “Play, come what may” (supported by Norwegian Artistic Research Programme) (March, 2024)

Virtuosity, post-instrumental practice, and collapse: A correspondence, by Louise Devenish and Jennifer Torrence. In Contemporary Musical Virtuosities (2023. Routledge)

It is as messy as you feared: two conversations about queer percussion between Jen Torrence and Bill Solomon (Queer Percussion Research Group Zine 2023)

On I/O, on the music of Jan Martin Smørdal and our collaboration, 2022 Arne Nordheim Composer’s Prize Pamphlet No. 2/3 (September 2022)

Quick Now–, on cultivating discomfort in performance, Oblivia Blog (May 2021)

Soft to the Touch: Performance, Vulnerability, and Entanglement in the Time of Covid, VIS Nordic Journal for Artistic Research, #6 ‘Contagion’ (October 2021)

Percussion Theatre: a body in between, 2019, PhD reflection

Script from the public defense of the PhD project Percussion Theatre: a body in between, 2019

Rethinking the Performer: Towards a devising performance practice, 2018, VIS Nordic Journal for Artistic Research, Edition #0

Nine Bells Program, 2018

Program note on Zyklus, Interieur I, The King of Denmark, and Dlugoszewski: A note for Periferien #4, 2017

No Say No Way, 2015

Podcasts hosted by Jennifer torrence

nyMusikk Podcast 2023 - 2024

Talking Experiments from Borealis - a festival for experimental music 2022

podcasts featuring/about Jennifer Torrence

Percussion Perspectives, Episode 4 November 2021

Ultima Festival Context Podcast, on 100 cymbals by Ryoji Ikeda, September 2021

The Roots and Rhizomes Mentorship Project May 2021

The @Percussion Podcast, Episod 282, April 2021

The @Percussion Podcast, Episode 226, March 2020

Ultima Festival Context Podcast, Episode 4 and Episode 7, September 2020

Pete’s Percussion Podcast Episode 163, November 2019

Radio New Zeland Interview, 2016

Texts featuring/about Jennifer Torrence

Taking the Temperature: Crisis, Curating, and Musical Diversity. Edited by Brandon Farnsworth, Anna Jakobsson, Vanessa Massera. On-curating.org, Zurich. 2020.

Musikkulter cover feature: “A slå eller ikke slå” by Marte Bjerke December, 2018

Ballade portrait: “Et studie i større armslag”, by Linn Carin Dirdal, Ballade. February, 2017