City Summer Sounds
From across the Atlantic
7:00pm Tuesday 9 June 2015
City University Performance Space
St John Street, London EC1V 4PB
Plus Minus presents an event exploring a range of experimental practices – from the theatrical to the microtonal - from four distinctive North American composers: Natacha Diels, Steven Takasugi, Pauline Oliveros and James Tenney.
Steven Kazuo Takasugi • Strange Autumn
Steven Kazuo Takasugi • Die Klavierübung: movement 1
Natacha Diels • 2.5 Nightmares, for Jessie
Pauline Oliveros • All Fours
James Tenney • Critical Band
Bath Spa University
7:30am Wednesday 27 May 2015
Bath Spa University
A concert of works by Bath Spa University students.
Kammer Klang
8:00pm Tuesday 2 December 2014
Kammer Klang
Cafe Oto
18-22 Ashwin Street
London
Alexander Schubert • Sensate Focus
Jennifer Walshe • Everything You Own Has Been Taken To A Depot Somewhere
Peter Ablinger • Instrumente und Rauschen
HCMF 2014
4:00pm Friday 28 November 2014
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
Phipps Hall, Huddersfield
Alexander Schubert • Sensate Focus [wp]
Bernhard Lang • DW23: …Loops for Dr.X
James Weeks • Looping Busker Music
Plus-Minus presents a concert of works especially written for the group, including the premiere of Alexander Schubert’s Sensate Focus, alongside recent pieces by Bernhard Lang and James Weeks. The programme features field recordings of street musicians, samples from a horror movie soundtrack, a synchronised light show and itchy loops.
Guildhall
Friday 4 July 2014
Guildhall School of Music & Drama
Silk Street, Barbican, London EC2Y 8DT
A concert of new works by composers studying at the Guildhall, as well as Peter Ablinger’s Amtssee bei Regen and On bare trees by James Saunders.
Bath Spa
Monday 2 June 2014
and Tuesday 3 June 2014
Bath Spa University
Two evenings of concerts of works by student composers from Bath Spa University.
James Saunders portrait concert
7:00pm Tuesday 8 April 2014
City University Performance Space
St John Street, London EC1V 4PB
James Saunders • what you must do, rather than must not do
James Saunders • with paper
James Saunders • so many territories
James Saunders • things whole and not whole
Kammer Klang
Tuesday 26 November 2013
Kammer Klang
Cafe Oto
18-22 Ashwin Street, London
Johannes Kreidler • Money
Newton Armstrong • Nature Pieces
Bernhard Lang • DW23: … Loops for Dr.X
Transit 2013
4:00pm Sunday 27 October 2013
Transit Festival Leuven
Labozaal, STUK
Bernhard Lang • DW23: …Loops for Dr.X [wp]
Guy De Bièvre • Time Zones 0.3/Water Clock [wp]
Peter Ablinger • Voices and Piano
Nicolaus A. Huber • Harakiri (arranged)
A-B
6:00pm Wednesday 22 May 2013
City University Performance Space
St John Street, London EC1V 4PB
A concert exploring the possibilities created from interaction between live performance and digital technology. Steen-Andersen’s work turns a sonic microscope on the voice, amplifying and recontextualising phonemes into musical phrases while Ablinger transcribes the microvariations of a blank vinyl record for solo piano. Prins pits the live performer against a virtual avatar, blending the acoustic and digital together in a new reality. In Rodgers’ piece, a handson exploration of the sonic possibilities of percussion is captured and transformed by live sampling, the electronic processing enhancing and augmenting the live performance.
Simon Steen-Andersen • In Her Frown
Peter Ablinger • Piano and record
Stefan Prins • Piano Hero 1
Stefan Prins • Piano Hero 2
Georgia Rodgers • A to B
Mark Knoop, piano and voice
Serge Vuille, percussion and voice
Newton Armstrong, electronics
Kings Place
8:00pm Monday 18 March 2013
Kings Place, London
Plus Minus presents a concert of works tracing the ensemble’s unique range of interests - from alternative notions of music theatre through to the micro-investigation of sound and high-concept approaches to contemporary music making. Two UK premieres by Jennifer Walshe and Joanna Bailie will join new pieces especially written for the group by Newton Armstrong and James Weeks.
James Weeks • Looping Busker Music [wp]
Jennifer Walshe • same person/not the same person
Joanna Bailie • Artificial Environments Nos. 1 to 5
Newton Armstrong • Nature Pieces [wp]
City University
7:00pm Tuesday 30 October 2012
Performance Space at City University London
College Building, St John Street, London EC1V 4PB
Plus Minus presents a concert of solos and duos performed by cellist Séverine Ballon and Mark Knoop on piano.
Rebecca Saunders • study • work in progress [wp]
Nicolaus A Huber • Beds and Brackets
Andrew Noble • you and me and the market makes three [wp]
Mauro Lanza • La Bataille de Caresme et de Charnage
Bernd Alois Zimmermann • Intercomunicazione
