Composed and performed with the Kueng bass recorder in F, and spontaneously recorded with an iphone in the medieval nunnery of Vreta, Sweden, on 2 March 2022. The performance space was a small round side chamber built before 1139. I am playing with the unique acoustics of the room [no amplification on site, no processing]. I was on my way to Finland, to the Saari residency, traveling on ground via Sweden.
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Their Quiet Rooms

Sonja Leipold – playing on two harpsichords – and Pia Palme with electronics perform a new piece @UnsafeandSounds 2022, Zacherlfabrik Vienna, live recording. The piece is a composition by Pia Palme with improvised passages by Sonja Leipold. Leipold uses a set of analogue preparations. The harpsichords are amplified with microphones and contact microphones. The electronic tracks are generated with field-recordings from a Finnish forest at Saarinen. The recording further includes short passages of live harpsichord-processing.

Vanished Shorelines

Klaus Lang: organ; Pia Palme: aerophone, ringmodulators, electronics, kueng-subbassrecorder and garklein recorder; performed live and recorded at Marienkirche Wels, Austria 2009.






Pia Palme / Klaus Lang

OCCAM VIII is a solo for contrabass recorder by Eliane Radigue, performed by Pia Palme. This is a small part of the live recording of the premiere at Huddersfield 2014. The complete piece is up to 18 minutes long.

OCCAM XVIII (Eliane Radigue 2014) - cut

Rhodri Davies and Pia Palme performing OCCAM RIVER V, the duo for harp and contrabass recorder by Eliane Radigue composed in collaboration with the two performers. This is a small sample from the premiere, live recorded at Huddersfield 2014.  

OCCAM RIVER V (Eliane Radigue 2014) - cut

Helena Sorokina, lower voice (alto) and Manuel Alcaraz-Clemente, percussion perform a composition by Pia Palme.  Documentary live-recording of the premiere at the Gustav Mahler University, Klagenfurt, March 2023.

More about the piece under https://piapalme.at/or-is-it-microbiology/

Or is it microbiology?

The work MORDACIOUS LIPS, TO DUST for four singers (soprano, countertenor, tenor, bass) was performed at the EXAUDI EXPOSURE2015 in London 2015 by the ensemble EXAUDI and James Weeks, direction. Music and text composed by Pia Palme 2014/2015 for the Sound and Music Portfolio opportunity. Live Recording, EXPOSURE2015, 17 October 2015, The Warehouse, London.

Further information under http://piapalme.at/works/mordacious-lips-to-dust/


MORDACIOUS LIPS, TO DUST

Featuring the renowned vocal performer Ute Wassermann, this 2015 work highlights outstanding contemporary vocality accompanied with electronics. The work was commissioned for Ute Wassermann by the festival Salzburg Biennale and is tailored to her singular mezzo-soprano, using her entire range of precisely sculpted noises together with her skill of modern vocal techniques.
Lyrics by Pia Palme, remixing Ute Wassermann's poem "Meine Stimme". The recording was made possible with funding from the New Voices 2015 program of Sound and Music, soundandmusic.org. 

Patterns to punctuate song, with darkness

Pia Palme and Electric Indigo, June 2010, commissioned by Frauennetzwerk Medien to recall feminism!

FEMWAKE jingle

A live excerpt of my performance lecture ENTSCHEIDE produced for Women's Day 2019. Sound, text & performance Pia Palme. First performed at the IMA Festival The Art of Reproduction, March 2019, St. Pölten, Austria. Contrabass recorder and voice are performed simultaneously. Electronic track composed of processed field recordings.

ENTSCHEIDE Excerpt

BARE BRANCHES_rite to quench the longing for missing millions of women. Palme 2012, commissioned by e_may and wienmodern. For 2 solo-voices, 2 choirs (using audio-scores) and percussion. Text by Anne Waldman. Performed live by Salome Kammer, Annette Schönmüller, voices; Wiener Kammerchor und Wiener Jugendchor; Berndt Thurner, percussion at e_may at wienmodern, Oct. 25th 2012. 

BARE BRANCHES_part3

The Danube, a motor boat, and a toy found on the beach of Strombad Kritzendorf

Danube_And_Bell

Composed and performed by Pia Palme, bass drum, paper, plant material, voice and Eric Gingras, sampler. Recorded October 2019 at Rolston Hall, Banff Centre of the Arts, Canada. Text by Pia Palme.

The Drum And The Sampler (Palme&Gingras 2019)

LIP OF THE REAL II (Palme 2013)

for for a flutist/soprano using a throat-microphone with PTT-button,
percussion and live-electronic surrounding (4 channels/6 speakers),
with texts by Anne Waldman, Pia Palme and Margret Kreidl (translated fragments)

Live recorded at performance on Feb. 14th 2013, St. Paul's Hall Huddersfield:
Alice Teyssier/flute & voice, Jonathan Hepfer/percussion,
Pia Palme/live -electronics.

More and a text about the piece at: www.piapalme.at

LIP OF THE REAL II

Snippet of Molly McDolan and Ana Inés Feola performing the duo Eins & Doppelt (2020 by Pia Palme) with two oboe da caccia instruments.

Eins & Doppelt_snippet

Umball 

detail of documentary live-recording:
performing at THE GEOMETRY OF WATER, May 2013 Tehran, 
Pia Palme: contrabass-recorder, Mohsen Saghafy: piano, Payam Mosleh: percussion, Siavash Mirzaee: e-guitar, electronics, Farshad Shokuhfar: e-bass, electronics.


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