Concerts

7:30pm Sunday 19 November 2023
Fruitmarket Warehouse
Market Street
Edinburgh

Shiori Usui • new work [wp]
Liza Lim • Inguz
Davíð Brynjar Franzson • Ideation #2.1
Bernhard Lang • Game 542
Laurence Crane • Riis

Plus Minus Ensemble presents a diverse programme, inviting the listener into contact with the material nature of sound, rather than what it represents. Franzson’s time stretching work slows down the body and mind to draw one into the grain of sound. Lim’s duo is titled after the Viking rune symbolising fertility and imagines a ritualistic creation of sound itself. Crane sustains the most elemental of musical objects to create a feeling of timelessness and space. Lang’s Game series creates a dynamic and reactive environment for the performers who negotiate an overlapping stack of interacting loops. Shiori Usui has created a new piece for Deep Time exploring the layering of instrumental and electronic sound.

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.

7pm Wednesday 25 October 2023
UNESCO week of sound Reid Concert Hall
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.

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

Newton Armstrong • A line alongside itself
Alice Purton • new work

8:00pm Tuesday 4 July 2023
Cafe Oto
London

Newton Armstrong • A line alongside itself
Alice Purton • new work
Natacha Diels • Somewhere Beautiful

11:00am Tuesday 4 July 2023
Klangspuren Schwaz
Szentrum Schwaz, Austria

Neil Luck • Real Telepaths

With players from TENM and students from Landesmusikschule Schwaz and Musikgymnasium Innsbruck.

7:00pm Friday 30 June 2022
Milton Court Concert Hall
1 Milton St, London EC2Y 9BH

Following four days working with Guildhall students, +- presents an evening concert including new works by Masters composers.

Anthony Braxton • Ghost Trance Music †

† led by Kobe van Cauwenberghe

7:00pm Wednesday 3 May 2023
Reid Concert Hall
Bristo Square
Edinburgh

Bernhard Lang
      • GAME 4-4-4 (2019)
      • Monadologie XXXVI Chopin Etudes (2016-17)
      • DW 4 (2000)
      • GAME 5-4-2 (2020)
      • DW 23 …Loops for Dr. X (2013)

8:00pm Monday 1 May 2023
Cafe Oto
London

Bernhard Lang
      • GAME 4-4-4 (2019)
      • Monadologie XXXVI Chopin Etudes (2016-17)
      • DW 4 (2000)
      • GAME 5-4-2 (2020)
      • DW 23 …Loops for Dr. X (2013)

8:00pm Saturday 10 December 2022
ARTist’s
Schützgasse 16
Graz
Austria

Matthew Shlomowitz • Lecture about Listening to Music
Simon Steen Andersen • Difficulties Putting it into Practice
Sarah Nemtsov • Drummed Variation
Steven Kazuo Takasugi • Strange Autumn

1:10pm Tuesday 6 December 2022
Reid Concert Hall
Bristo Square
Edinburgh

Sarah Hennies • Spectral Malsconcities
John White • a selection of chamber pieces
Martin Parker • Solos with Support [wp]