Concerts

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

Wednesday 29 February 2012
Oxford Brookes University

Concert and workshop of pieces by Oxford Brookes students.

Wednesday 7 December 2011
City University

Plus Minus workshops student compositions from City University students.

7:00pm Tuesday 29 November 2011
Performance Space at City University London
College Building, St John Street, London EC1V 4PB

Iannis Xenakis • Dikhthas
Aldo Clementi • Madrigale
Johannes Kreidler • Klavierstück 5
Alex Hills • 5 Resonance Studies
Simon Steen Andersen • Study for string instrument #1

8:00pm Monday 10 October 2011
Kings Place, London

Repetition invites us to focus on details that usually fly by. It draws our attention to the ‘grain of the sound’, so we observe minute deviation and extremely slow change, or fall into a trance-like state. This programme explores different approaches to repetition in music. Although none of the music is literally repetitive, these diverse works share common interests, in creating music out of an extreme economy of means and opening up different kinds of listening environments.

Aldo Clementi • Madrigale
Morton Feldman • Bass clarinet and percussion
Simon Steen Andersen • Study for string instrument #1
Philip Glass • Music in contrary motion
Alvin Lucier • I am sitting in a room

This concert was broadcast on BBC Radio 3

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.