Concerts

7:30am Monday 30 May 2011
Bath Spa University

A concert for two pianos and live electronics including works by Bath Spa University student composers.

Newton Armstrong • Study in tiled light
Michael Finnissy • Wild Flowers

Thursday 5 May 2011
Durham University

A one-day workshop with Durham University student composers and Plus Minus musicians. Works for clarinet, piano and violin.

7:30am Thursday 10 March 2011
Huddersfield University Concert Series
St Paul’s Hall, Huddersfield

Plus Minus presents Dikhthas and Evryali by Xenakis, works by Simon Steen-Andersen, Peter Ablinger and two pieces written especially for the group by Huddersfield postgraduate composers. On Wednesday the 9th of March the group will hold a workshop with Huddersfield student composers.

Iannis Xenakis • Dikhthas
Matthew Sergeant • veils [wp]
Philip Glass • Music in Contrary Motion
Iannis Xenakis • Evryali
Colin Tucker • the indifferent horizon apathetically rests on the ground, devouring everything that looks like something [wp]
Peter Ablinger • Amtssee bei Regen

8:00pm Monday 21 February 2011
Kings Place
90 York Way
London

Plus Minus celebrates the 50th birthday of Laurence Crane with a concert of recent works featuring guest performer, soprano Juliet Fraser. This event will be recorded for future broadcast by BBC Radio 3.

Laurence Crane • Come back to the old specimen cabinet John Vigani, John Vigani part 3
Laurence Crane • Piano Piece no.23
Laurence Crane • Weirdi
Laurence Crane • Octet

4:00pm Friday 26 November 2010
HCMF 2010
Huddersfield

A Plus Minus double-portrait concert featuring two of the most distinctive voices in contemporary music: Peter Ablinger and Trond Reinholdtsen. Expect white noise, power-point, conceptual music theatre and some famous voices presented in a way you might never have anticipated.

Peter Ablinger • Instrumente und Rauschen
Trond Reinholdtsen • Concert Music Piece
Peter Ablinger • Voices and Piano
Trond Reinholdtsen • 13 Music Theatre Pieces

Monday 20 September 2010
Kings Place, London

Karlheinz Stockhausen • Mantra
Newton Armstrong • Study in tiled light [wp]

Friday 7 May 2010
Granhøj Dans
Århus, Denmark

Peter Ablinger • Instrumente und Rauschen
Trond Reinholdtsen • Concert Music Piece
Peter Ablinger • 1-127
Trond Reinholdtsen • 13 Music Theatre Pieces

Monday 12 April 2010
Kings Place
90 York Way
London

Iannis Xenakis • Dikhthas
Rebecca Saunders • Vermilion
Iannis Xenakis • Evryali
Bryn Harrison • Repetitions in Extended Time

1:10pm Thursday 11 March 2010
Durham University

Mariam Rezaei • P.M. [wp]
Peter Ablinger • Voices and Piano
Laurence Crane • Riis
Iannis Xenakis • Evryali
Damien Ricketson • Same Steps

Wednesday 18 November 2009
Institute of Contemporary Arts
The Mall, London

Plus-Minus and Kämmer Klang co-present an event featuring composer Trond Reinholdtsen and visual artist James Beckett, in a night featuring motorcross trophies, travel sounds, rabbits, power point presentations and microtonal music.

19:00, Lower Gallery

James Beckett • Trophies

19:30, Theatre

Kämmer Klang / Plus Minus perform:

Iannis Xenakis • Charisma
Trond Reinholdtsen • Concert Music Piece
Alex Hills • Some states can be resolved rhythmically
Matthew Shlomowitz • Fast Medium Swing

20:15, Lower Gallery

James Beckett • THE FRÈDERYCK NÙYEGEN SEASIDE MEMORIAL BAND

20:45, Theatre

Kämmer Klang / Plus Minus perform:

Giancinto Scelsi • Duo
Larry Polansky • Ensembles Of Note
Trond Reinholdtsen • 13 Music Theatre Pieces

21:30, Lower Gallery

James Beckett • Rabbit to Score

Tuesday 26 to Sunday 31 May 2009
Institute of Contemporary Arts
The Mall, London

As part of the ICA’s Talk Show season, Plus-Minus will spend a week in residence. The ensemble will rehearse in the public galleries, presenting a short concert at the end of each day. The week will culminate in a full-length concert on Sunday 31 May. Repertoire will include:

György Ligeti • Atmosphères (arranged)
Tim Parkinson • Quartet
James Saunders • divisions that could be autonomous but that comprise the whole
Matthew Shlomowitz • Letter Piece #5, Northern Cities
Joanna Bailie • On and Off 2
Tom Johnson • Trio
Laurence Crane • Come back to the old specimen Cabinet John Vigani, John Vigani

7:30pm Thursday 21 May 2009
Bath Spa University

Afternoon workshops with Bath Spa composition students will be followed by a public concert including student pieces.

Joanna Bailie • On and Off
Øyvind Torvund • Tune Park
Thomas Meadowcroft • A Vanity Press
Peter Ablinger • Voices and Piano