Diels on Plus-Minus Ensemble

Cafe Oto residency

Mon, 12 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Monday 12 to Wednesday 14 January 2026
Cafe Oto, London
doors nightly 7:30pm

Plus Minus Ensemble presents three nights of music, joined by special guests Maddie Ashman and Kaj Duncan David, and Danish ensemble Scenatet.

Mappings: Monday 12 January

Mads Emil Dreyer • Miniature 1
for four performers — Scenatet
Joanna Bailie • Roll Call
for piano and video — Mark Knoop
Andrea Balency-Béarn • Mappings (El Mapa No Es el Territorio)
for seven instruments — Plus Minus Ensemble

The Mad Moon and the Owls

Mon, 30 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

7:00pm Monday 30 June 2025
Reid Concert Hall
Edinburgh College of Art
Edinburgh

Peter Maxwell Davies • Hymnos
Igor Stravinsky, arr. Paul Saunders • Three Pieces for Clarinet
Francesca Fargion • All the Other Songs
Alex Paxton • Justgum Friends
Natacha Diels • The Mad Moon and the Owls

The Mad Moon and the Owls

Sun, 29 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

7:30pm Sunday 29 June 2025
Cafe Oto
London

Peter Maxwell Davies • Hymnos
Igor Stravinsky, arr. Paul Saunders • Three Pieces for Clarinet
Francesca Fargion • All the Other Songs
Newton Armstrong • new work
Alex Paxton • Justgum Friends
Natacha Diels • The Mad Moon and the Owls

Boulez at 100: Re-imagined

Sat, 29 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

10:30pm Saturday 29 March 2025
BBC Studios
Maida Vale
London

Pierre Boulez • Dérive I
Ruth Crawford Seeger, re-imagined by Alex Hills • Andante from String Quartet [wp]
Pierre Boulez • Structures I
Julián Carrillo, re-imagined by Natacha Diels • Preludio a Colón [wp]

Details and free tickets here.

A line alongside itself

Thu, 06 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000

7:30pm Thursday 6 July 2023
West Court
Edinburgh College of Art
Edinburgh

Newton Armstrong • A line alongside itself
Alice Purton • The spider’s web is thin, and it holds me [wp]

A line alongside itself

Tue, 04 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000

8:00pm Tuesday 4 July 2023
Cafe Oto
London

Newton Armstrong • A line alongside itself
Alice Purton • The spider’s web is thin, and it holds me [wp]
Natacha Diels • Somewhere Beautiful

MaerzMusik

Mon, 14 Mar 2016 00:00:00 +0000

7:30pm Monday 14 March 2016
Haus der Berliner Festspiele
Schaperstraße 24
10719 Berlin Wilmersdorf

Concert 1 • 19:30

Joanna Bailie • Artificial Environment No.8
Joanna Bailie • Artificial Environments Nos.1-5

Concert 2 • 20:30

Matthew Shlomowitz • Lecture about Bad Music

Concert 3 • 22:00

Simon Løffler • b
Johannes Kreidler • Charts Music
Natacha Diels • 2.5 Nightmares for Jessie
Alexander Schubert • Sensate Focus

City Summer Sounds

Tue, 09 Jun 2015 00:00:00 +0000

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