Cut and Splice 2015
8:00pm Friday 25 and Saturday 26 September 2015
Cafe Oto
18-22 Ashwin Street, London
Plus-Minus will be performing in this year’s Cut and Splice Festival at Cafe Oto, co-produced by Sound and Music, and BBC Radio 3. Cut & Splice 2015 links the work of the pioneers of the sonic avant-garde to the trail-blazers of today and explores the relationships between music machines and the environment. Moving from the centre to the edges of music-making practices, from the last century to our own, the programme seeks to explore these dual radii of influence, that somehow overlap, create interference patterns and forming a fuzzy and yet compelling continuum on which the programmed works lie.
Friday 25 September (Fields/Machines)
Henry Cowell • Aeolian Harp
Cathy van Eck • Groene Ruis
Luc Ferrari • Presque Rien No.1
Clara Iannotta • The people here go mad. They blame the wind.
Simon Løffler • b
Michael Pisaro • Fields have ears 1
Dawn Scarfe • listening glasses installation
Dawn Scarfe • Air Traffic
Agostino Di Scipio • Audible Ecosystems, n.3a (background noise study)
Saturday 26 September (Space/Translation/Device)
Peter Ablinger • Weiss/Weisslich 11b
Peter Ablinger • Renate Fuczik
Bryan Eubanks • Double Portrait
Bryan Eubanks • Listening through glass walls
Mauro Lanza/Andrea Valle • Regnum Vegetabile
Alvin Lucier • Sferics
James Saunders • AT LEAST 100 DEVICES BEING TURNED ON AND OFF
James Saunders • Like you and like you
Hildegard Westerkamp • Kits Beach Soundwalk
Ultima Festival 2015
5:00pm Friday 11 September 2015
Den Norske Opera & Ballet
Kirsten Flagstads Plass 1
Oslo
Ensemble Plus-Minus presents a concert of two genre-stretching pieces especially written for the group. Matthew Shlomowitz’s Lecture About Bad Music (2015), drawing on scholarship from a range of fields and employing musical demonstrations and recreations of psychological experiments, asks us to consider if a piece of music can be inherently bad, or whether such judgements are purely subjective. Alexander Schubert’s Sensate Focus (2014) on the other hand, is concerned with the interplay between sound and image, and adds light as a fifth performer to a quartet of musicians. Using strobing effects, Schubert explores issues of sampling and sensorial experience in both the audio and visual domains, and our ability to form continuities from discrete objects.
Matthew Shlomowitz • Lecture About Bad Music [wp]
Alexander Schubert • Sensate Focus
Guildhall
7:00pm Friday 26 June 2015
Guildhall School of Music & Drama
Silk Street, Barbican, London EC2Y 8DT
A concert of pieces by composition students at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama.
City Summer Sounds
From across the Atlantic
7:00pm Tuesday 9 June 2015
City University Performance Space
St John Street, London EC1V 4PB
Plus Minus presents an event exploring a range of experimental practices – from the theatrical to the microtonal - from four distinctive North American composers: Natacha Diels, Steven Takasugi, Pauline Oliveros and James Tenney.
Steven Kazuo Takasugi • Strange Autumn
Steven Kazuo Takasugi • Die Klavierübung: movement 1
Natacha Diels • 2.5 Nightmares, for Jessie
Pauline Oliveros • All Fours
James Tenney • Critical Band
Bath Spa University
7:30am Wednesday 27 May 2015
Bath Spa University
A concert of works by Bath Spa University students.
Kammer Klang
8:00pm Tuesday 2 December 2014
Kammer Klang
Cafe Oto
18-22 Ashwin Street
London
Alexander Schubert • Sensate Focus
Jennifer Walshe • Everything You Own Has Been Taken To A Depot Somewhere
Peter Ablinger • Instrumente und Rauschen
HCMF 2014
4:00pm Friday 28 November 2014
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
Phipps Hall, Huddersfield
Alexander Schubert • Sensate Focus [wp]
Bernhard Lang • DW23: …Loops for Dr.X
James Weeks • Looping Busker Music
Plus-Minus presents a concert of works especially written for the group, including the premiere of Alexander Schubert’s Sensate Focus, alongside recent pieces by Bernhard Lang and James Weeks. The programme features field recordings of street musicians, samples from a horror movie soundtrack, a synchronised light show and itchy loops.
Guildhall
Friday 4 July 2014
Guildhall School of Music & Drama
Silk Street, Barbican, London EC2Y 8DT
A concert of new works by composers studying at the Guildhall, as well as Peter Ablinger’s Amtssee bei Regen and On bare trees by James Saunders.
Bath Spa
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.
James Saunders portrait concert
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
Kammer Klang
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
Transit 2013
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)
