Fargion

10:30pm Saturday 24 February 2024
Centro Cultural de Belém, Black Box
Lisbon
Portugal

Bernhard Lang • Game 542
Liza Lim • Inguz
Davíð Brynjar Franzson • Ideation #2.1
Francesca Fargion • 8 Songs
Laurence Crane • Riis

Plus Minus Ensemble, with Francesca Fargion, voice.

A diverse programme, inviting the listener into contact with the material nature of sound. Bernhard Lang’s Game 542 creates a dynamic and reactive environment for the performers who negotiate an overlapping stack of interacting loops. Liza Lim’s duo is titled after the Viking Rune symbolizing fertility and imagines a ritualistic creation of sound itself.

Davíð Brynjar Franzson’s time-stretching work slows down the body and mind to draw one into the grain of sound. The instruments meld with each other, fusing into a single pulsating entity, and creating a hypnotic experience. The witty and playful 8 Songs by composer/performer Francesca Fargion are joyfully observant of everyday scenarios.

The concert ends with Laurence Crane’s tribute to Danish road cyclist Bjarne Riis, as slow changing organ chords trigger gentle responses from clarinet and cello.

8:00pm Saturday 18 November 2023
MINU Festival
Ku.Be
Dirch Passers Allé 4
Copenhagen

Jessie Marino • Seahorses [wp]
Seán Clancy • Where the Paths End [wp]
Francesca Fargion • Louise, gently falling [wp]
Anthony Braxton • Ghost Trance Music

Plus-Minus Ensemble presents a programme of three new compositions that explore interdisciplinary interactions between music and new digital technologies. The works are commissioned by Zubin Kanga as part of Cyborg Soloists (UKRI funded project hosted at Royal Holloway, University of London), which is connecting composers, performers and sound artists with researchers and industry partners to develop artistic and technological innovations.

Plus-Minus will also present a realization of Anthony Braxton’s “Ghost Trance Music” — a ritualistic meta-composition in which his entire musical universe comes together.

8:00pm Sunday 29 October 2023
Cafe Oto
London

Jessie Marino • Seahorses [wp]
Seán Clancy • Where the Paths End [wp]
Francesca Fargion • Louise, gently falling [wp]
Anthony Braxton • Ghost Trance Music

Plus-Minus Ensemble presents a programme of three new compositions that explore interdisciplinary interactions between music and new digital technologies. The works are commissioned by Zubin Kanga as part of Cyborg Soloists (UKRI funded project hosted at Royal Holloway, University of London), which is connecting composers, performers and sound artists with researchers and industry partners to develop artistic and technological innovations.

Plus-Minus will also present a realization of Anthony Braxton’s “Ghost Trance Music” — a ritualistic meta-composition in which his entire musical universe comes together.

7:00pm Friday 27 October 2023
The Lab, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
200 Jennens Road, B4 7XR
Birmingham

Jessie Marino • Seahorses [wp]
Seán Clancy • Where the Paths End [wp]
Francesca Fargion • Louise, gently falling [wp]
Anthony Braxton • Ghost Trance Music

Plus-Minus Ensemble presents a programme of three new compositions that explore interdisciplinary interactions between music and new digital technologies. The works are commissioned by Zubin Kanga as part of Cyborg Soloists (UKRI funded project hosted at Royal Holloway, University of London), which is connecting composers, performers and sound artists with researchers and industry partners to develop artistic and technological innovations.

Plus-Minus will also present a realization of Anthony Braxton’s “Ghost Trance Music” — a ritualistic meta-composition in which his entire musical universe comes together.

7:00pm Wednesday 25 October 2023
UNESCO week of sound West Court
Edinburgh College of Art
Edinburgh

Jessie Marino • Seahorses [wp]
Seán Clancy • Where the Paths End [wp]
Francesca Fargion • Louise, gently falling [wp]
Anthony Braxton • Ghost Trance Music

Plus-Minus Ensemble presents a programme of three new compositions that explore interdisciplinary interactions between music and new digital technologies. The works are commissioned by Zubin Kanga as part of Cyborg Soloists (UKRI funded project hosted at Royal Holloway, University of London), which is connecting composers, performers and sound artists with researchers and industry partners to develop artistic and technological innovations.

Plus-Minus will also present a realization of Anthony Braxton’s “Ghost Trance Music” — a ritualistic meta-composition in which his entire musical universe comes together.