Texts by Jennifer Torrence

Upcoming 2026: Disarming: on the percussion music of Martin Hirsti-Kvam (supported by the Norwegian Composer’s Society)

On beleider geil gutem Autos sind uns ganz vorm by Astrid Solberg (2026), lecture for Komposisjonsforum, 14 April 2026, Kunstnernes hus, Oslo.

The performer is the collective (2025). Keynote at Transplanted Roots Percussion Research Symposium, Porto.

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