Concerts

Monday 2 June 2014
and Tuesday 3 June 2014
Bath Spa University

Two evenings of concerts of works by student composers from Bath Spa University.

7:00pm Tuesday 8 April 2014
City University Performance Space
St John Street, London EC1V 4PB

James Saunders • what you must do, rather than must not do
James Saunders • with paper
James Saunders • so many territories
James Saunders • things whole and not whole

Tuesday 26 November 2013
Kammer Klang
Cafe Oto
18-22 Ashwin Street, London

Johannes Kreidler • Money
Newton Armstrong • Nature Pieces
Bernhard Lang • DW23: … Loops for Dr.X

4:00pm Sunday 27 October 2013
Transit Festival Leuven
Labozaal, STUK

Bernhard Lang • DW23: …Loops for Dr.X [wp]
Guy De Bièvre • Time Zones 0.3/Water Clock [wp]
Peter Ablinger • Voices and Piano
Nicolaus A. Huber • Harakiri (arranged)

6:00pm Wednesday 22 May 2013
City University Performance Space
St John Street, London EC1V 4PB

A concert exploring the possibilities created from interaction between live performance and digital technology. Steen-Andersen’s work turns a sonic microscope on the voice, amplifying and recontextualising phonemes into musical phrases while Ablinger transcribes the microvariations of a blank vinyl record for solo piano. Prins pits the live performer against a virtual avatar, blending the acoustic and digital together in a new reality. In Rodgers’ piece, a handson exploration of the sonic possibilities of percussion is captured and transformed by live sampling, the electronic processing enhancing and augmenting the live performance.

Simon Steen-Andersen • In Her Frown
Peter Ablinger • Piano and record
Stefan Prins • Piano Hero 1
Stefan Prins • Piano Hero 2
Georgia Rodgers • A to B

Mark Knoop, piano and voice
Serge Vuille, percussion and voice
Newton Armstrong, electronics

8:00pm Monday 18 March 2013
Kings Place, London

Plus Minus presents a concert of works tracing the ensemble’s unique range of interests - from alternative notions of music theatre through to the micro-investigation of sound and high-concept approaches to contemporary music making. Two UK premieres by Jennifer Walshe and Joanna Bailie will join new pieces especially written for the group by Newton Armstrong and James Weeks.

James Weeks • Looping Busker Music [wp]
Jennifer Walshe • same person/not the same person
Joanna Bailie • Artificial Environments Nos. 1 to 5
Newton Armstrong • Nature Pieces [wp]

7:00pm Tuesday 30 October 2012
Performance Space at City University London
College Building, St John Street, London EC1V 4PB

Plus Minus presents a concert of solos and duos performed by cellist Séverine Ballon and Mark Knoop on piano.

Rebecca Saunders • study • work in progress [wp]
Nicolaus A Huber • Beds and Brackets
Andrew Noble • you and me and the market makes three [wp]
Mauro Lanza • La Bataille de Caresme et de Charnage
Bernd Alois Zimmermann • Intercomunicazione

8:00pm Monday 15 October 2012
Kings Place, London

Sound Source. Plus Minus presents an international programme of works focused on the ways and means of producing sound and harnessing its resonance. Sound sources include rice grains falling onto a variety of different surfaces, two amplified performers using extended vocal techniques, a piano modified by live electronics, and almost nothing - namely the “sound” of background noise. A new work by Alex Hills especially written for the group joins music from experimental American composer Michael Pisaro, the young Dane Simon Steen-Andersen and Italians Fausto Romitelli and Agostino Di Scipio.

Fausto Romitelli • Trash TV Trance
Simon Steen-Andersen • In Her Frown
Michael Pisaro • ricefall
Alex Hills • After and Before [wp]
Agostino Di Scipio • n.3a/Background Noise Study

7:00pm Tuesday 12 June 2012
Performance Space at City University London
College Building, St John Street, London EC1V 4PB

A concert of works by City University composition students Andy Mayell, Davy Berryman, Maja Schriver, Christopher Corcoran, Anneli Bentler, Alice Jeffreys, James Perkins and Lukasz Kasprzak.

Wednesday 6 June 2012
Bath Spa University

Concert and workshop of pieces by Bath Spa University students.

Tuesday 17 April 2012
City University

Plus Minus performs as part of the SuperCollider Symposium 2012. Featuring new works by Erik Nystrom, Pierre-Alexandre Tremblay, Yota Morimoto, Alo Allik, Richard Hoadley, Tim Walters and Scott Wilson (with guest Xenia Pestova).

Friday 16 March 2012
Logen Teater
Bergen, Norway

Nicolaus A. Huber • Beds and Brackets
Johannes Kreidler • Slot Machines
Johannes Kreidler • Money
Johannes Kreidler • Charts Music (arranged)
Johannes Kreidler • untitled performance #3
Nicolaus A. Huber • Harakiri (arranged)

Plus video work by Johannes Kreidler