Performance Notes
Section Policy
Performance Notes
This section offers a space for critical reflection on performance as a mode of inquiry, transmission, and cultural expression. It features writings by performers, composers, and scholar-artists that engage with the practice, politics, and poetics of performing music and sound.
Scope of Inquiry
Artist Statements & Journals Reflections on process and creative intent.
Performance as Research (PaR) Embodied music scholarship and inquiry.
Rehearsal & Collaboration Narratives of collective music-making.
Critical Staging Accounts Audience interaction & sound environments.
Site-Specific / Intercultural Improvisational and situated performance.
Performative Temporality Explorations of memory, failure, and repetition.
Submission Requirements
Length 2k–6k words
Accepted Formats Narrative essays, reflective texts, annotated performance documents.
Style Chicago 17th Ed.
Documentation & Media
We strongly encourage accompanying text with photos, videos, or scores. (Links or embeds preferred).
What We Look For
- ✓ Writing that bridges performance and scholarship
- ✓ Embodied, situated accounts of music-making
- ✓ Critical reflection grounded in practice, not just description
