This session features ‘interface’ as a shared theme, approached by three music practitioners at the DocMus Doctoral School of the Sibelius Academy, Uniarts Helsinki. The three musicians (composer, clarinetist, and violinist) search for an appropriate ‘interface’ in their individual specialist practice in contemporary art music. They present solutions to specific challenges encountered in their own work, and suggest new directions in the practice of music-making as part of a larger community practice.

Agency in Ecological Composition

By Ville Raasakka

Considerations, Obligations, and Expectations: Performer Perspectives on Contemporary Music Performance

By Lucy Abrams-Husso

Leading as a Mode of Interaction and Communication in the Performance Practice of Music for Solo Violin

By Maria Puusaari