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The Performer-Composer: Dual Identities in New Music, Volume 1

  • Auteur/artiest
    Sara Caneva, Anders Førisdal, Jonathan Heilbron, Clare Lesser, Jonas Lundblad, You Nakai, Kristin Norderval, Audrey Riley, Luk Vaes, and Ann Warde
  • Publicatiejaar
    2026
  • Datum
    01 okt 2026
  • Uitgever
    Orpheus Instituut
  • Cluster
    HIPEX
  • Serie
    SONUS
  • Format
    Online publication
  • DOI

Edited by Luk Vaes

Composition and performance become unstable categories in the work of performer-composers, reshaping interpretation, experimentation, embodiment, and musical authorship.

In the beginning was the performer, it may be imagined; but when thinking of a performer who also composes, most often we invert this relationship and call that musician a “composer-performer.” Nevertheless, though classical music culture has long been aware of this double identity, and despite the research possibilities engendered by developments in audio and video recording technology and software for analysing outputs, this field has attracted little more than incidental academic attention. In particular, performer-composers of the recent past have been neglected.

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Contents

  • Luk Vaes: Introduction
  • Jonas Lundblad: Olivier Messiaen as Performer of His Organ Music
  • Ann Warde: John Cage, Pianist
  • Clare Lesser: “Voice and Shocking Things”
  • You Nakai: Like an Instrument That Only I Know How to Play
  • Audrey Riley: Conversations with Gavin Bryars
  • Kristin Norderval: Building New Tables
  • Sara Caneva: With or Without Visual Cues?
  • Anders Førisdal: Trond Reinholdtsen
  • Jonathan Heilbron: Reactivating Fernando Grillo’s Early Works
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SONUS

SONUS is an open access, peer-reviewed online platform by the Orpheus Instituut designed specifically to allow integration of media and graphics in the presentation of artistic research in music. It is the hub for a new series of monographs, edited collections, and other substantial works that explore questions and topics at the heart of artists’ musical practice, aiming to deepen and enrich both the creation and the understanding of music.

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