Action Music
7:00pm Wednesday 9 October 2024
Reid Concert Hall
Edinburgh College of Art
Edinburgh
Erik Griswold • Action Music
Francesca Fargion • 8 Songs
Tim Parkinson • Piano Trio 2020
Parkinson/Fargion
7:30pm Monday 7 October 2024
Cafe Oto
London
Francesca Fargion • 8 Songs
Tim Parkinson • Piano Trio 2020
Inferner Park
7:00pm Tuesday 2 July 2024
West Court, Edinburgh College of Art
74 Lauriston Place
Edinburgh
Georgia Rodgers • St Andrew’s Lyddington
Thomas Stiegler • Inferner Park
Galina Ustvolskaya • Sonata for Violin and Piano
Inferner Park
7:30pm Sunday 30 June 2024
Cafe Oto
London
Thomas Stiegler • Inferner Park
Matthew Shlomowitz • Explorations in Polytonality and Other Musical Wonders, Volume 2
Jasper Vanpaemel • ABC for three small slideflutes
Galina Ustvolskaya • Sonata for Violin and Piano
Plus-Minus Ensemble musicians Mira Benjamin and Mark Knoop present works for violin and piano, and are joined by Flemish recorder trio Apsara performing Matthew Shlomowitz and Jasper Vanpaemel.
Guildhall School of Music
7:00pm Friday 21 June 2024
Milton Court Concert Hall
1 Milton St, London EC2Y 9BH
Following three days working with Guildhall students, +- presents an evening concert of new works by Masters composers.
We'll Find Out When We Get There
12:00, 14:00, 16:00 Sunday 12 May 2024
Hansard Gallery
Southampton
Drew Crawford • We’ll Find Out When We Get There
We’ll find out when we get there is a major new inter-disciplinary work exploring sound, space and human perception. A site-responsive collaboration between composer/creative director Drew Crawford, the virtuosic musicians of Plus Minus Ensemble and Tim Hand (audio), the one-hour work lies at the intersection of musical performance, art installation, choreography and acoustic experiment, designed to respond to and illuminate the aural architecture of the multi-chamber gallery spaces in which it is performed.
Strange Autumn
6:30pm Saturday 13 April 2024
Festival Archipel
Geneva
Switzerland
Steven Kazuo Takasugi • Strange Autumn
Towards the past
7:30pm Friday 15 March 2024
BBC Studios
Maida Vale
London
Michael Finnissy • M.I. Musical Intelligence [wp]
Bryn Harrison • Towards a slowing of the past [wp]
Plus Minus Ensemble has commissioned Michael Finnissy and Bryn Harrison with the generous support of the Hinrichsen Foundation and the Vaughan Williams Foundation.
Details and free tickets here.
Towards the past
7:00pm Wednesday 13 March 2024
Reid Concert Hall
Edinburgh College of Art
Edinburgh
Bryn Harrison • Towards a slowing of the past [wp]
Michael Finnissy • M.I. Musical Intelligence [wp]
Plus Minus Ensemble has commissioned Michael Finnissy and Bryn Harrison with the generous support of the Hinrichsen Foundation and the Vaughan Williams Foundation.
Details and free tickets here.
Games and Songs
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.
