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Percussion Theatre: a body in between (2019)

Jennifer Torrence
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What does the musician become when sound and instrumental thinking are no longer privileged as the foundation of a musician's practice? In what ways does an emphasis on the musician's body cause music to approach art forms such as theatre and performance? After a generation of pioneering work from Mauricio Kagel, Dieter Schnebel, John Cage and many others, where is the theatrical and the performative in music today? How do its recent developments shape, alter, constitute a musician's artistic practice? Through her research, Jennifer Torrence argues that this type of music demands the musician assume a different understanding and relation to their instrument and therefore a different relation to their body. This relation calls for new ways of making and doing (new artistic practices) that foreground the body as a fundamental performance material. Through an emphasis on the body, the musician emerges as a performer. This exposition is a reflection on the research project Percussion Theatre: a body in between. This project is comprised of a collection of new evening-length works that approach the theatrical and performative in contemporary music performance. These works are created with and by composers Wojtek Blecharz, Carolyn Chen, Neo Hülcker, Johan Jutterström, Trond Reinholdtsen, François Sarhan, and Peter Swendsen. The exposition contains reflections on recent developments in contemporary music that mark a mutation of the executing musician into a co-creating performer, as well as images, artefacts, videos, and texts that unfold the process of creating and performing the work that constitutes this project. The ambition of this exposition is that through the exposure of a personal artistic practice an image of a larger field may come into focus.
typeresearch exposition
keywordspercussion, theatre, body, instrumental theatre, performance, collaboration, music, music theatre, experimental music, contemporary music, devising, co-creation, new music, new musical works
date18/11/2018
published10/05/2019
last modified10/05/2019
statuspublished
share statusprivate
affiliationNorwegian Academy of Music, Norwegian Artistic Research Programme
licenseAll rights reserved
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/533313/534335
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/nmh-ar.533313
published inNorwegian Academy of Music
portal issue2. Publications - 2019


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533328 zyklus condenced Jennifer Torrence All rights reserved
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533334 ropes Jennifer Torrence All rights reserved
534039 ropes final Jennifer Torrence All rights reserved
534277 gesture sarhan Martins Vilcens All rights reserved
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534281 finger sarhan Martins Vilcens All rights reserved
534283 scenography Martins Vilcens All rights reserved
534285 blaha Johan Jutterström All rights reserved
534290 deer Jennifer Torrence All rights reserved
534297 prosthetic limb Jennifer Torrence All rights reserved
534305 trimmed institute Jennifer Torrence/Trond Reinholtsen All rights reserved
534312 soundtouch warsaw Jennifer Torrence All rights reserved
534326 devising graph Jennifer Torrence All rights reserved
534329 boat_cirlces_rolls_close Jennifer Torrence/Peter Swendsen All rights reserved
534331 9 bells practice Elizabeth Peacocke All rights reserved
534334 neo rehearsal december Jennifer Torrence All rights reserved
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534341 post human Elizabeth Peacocke All rights reserved
534343 blaha image Johan Jutterström All rights reserved
534345 nosaynoway Martins Vilcens All rights reserved
534347 drum_boat_hand2 Peter Swendsen All rights reserved
534349 etudes image Neo Hülcker All rights reserved
534352 soundtouch gdansk art Jennifer Torrence All rights reserved
534354 carolyn Jennifer Torrence/Carolyn Chen All rights reserved
534367 bells 1 Juliane Schütz All rights reserved
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534381 blaha text Johan Jutterström/Jennifer Torrence All rights reserved
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538539 tape Jennifer Torrence All rights reserved
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538543 cyborg Jennifer Torrence All rights reserved
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538556 coffee Jennifer Torrence All rights reserved
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538576 soundtouch 1 Jennifer Torrence All rights reserved
538578 soundtouch 2 Jennifer Torrence All rights reserved
538683 how to fight final Jennifer Torrence All rights reserved
538685 perc institute Jennifer Torrence All rights reserved
538687 INSTITUTE FOR POST-HUMAN PERFORMANCE PRACTICE Jennifer Torrence All rights reserved
538690 WNR_trailer_hq peter swendsen All rights reserved
538700 IMG_4387 Jennifer Torrence All rights reserved
539204 notebook Jennifer Torrence All rights reserved
539206 storyboard Jennifer Torrence All rights reserved
539208 arms pic Jennifer Torrence All rights reserved
539210 experiments Jennifer Torrence All rights reserved
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539217 perc set up Juliane Schütz All rights reserved
539219 robots Jennifer Torrence All rights reserved
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539227 IMG_9370 Juliane Schütz All rights reserved
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539240 IMG_9320-2 Juliane Schütz All rights reserved
539242 IMG_9318-2 Juliane Schütz All rights reserved
539244 IMG_9297-2 Juliane Schütz All rights reserved
539246 no say no way trailer Jennifer Torrence All rights reserved
539248 IMG_9286-2 Juliane Schütz All rights reserved
539253 IMG_9280 Juliane Schütz All rights reserved
539255 IMG_9269-2 Juliane Schütz All rights reserved
539257 IMG_9236 Juliane Schütz All rights reserved
539265 neo rehearsal Jennifer Torrence All rights reserved
539327 le roy piece Jennifer Torrence All rights reserved
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539339 IMG_4085 Jennifer Torrence All rights reserved
539342 IMG_4095 Jennifer Torrence All rights reserved
539346 Screen Shot 2018-11-29 at 22.17.53 Neo Hülcker All rights reserved
539348 IMG_4016 Jennifer Torrence All rights reserved
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539401 IMG_8397 Juliane Schütz All rights reserved
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540088 Posthuman Inst_render 22jan18 Trond Reinholdtsen & Jennifer Torrence All rights reserved
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543290 Screen Shot 2018-09-22 at 12.02.15 Jennifer Torrence All rights reserved
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548993 Screen Shot 2018-12-19 at 17.28.28 trond reinholdtsen All rights reserved
548995 Screen Shot 2018-12-19 at 18.11.35 Francois Sarhan All rights reserved
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