Idyll (from Nature Pieces)

Performed by Vicky Wright, Tom Pauwels, Roderick Chadwick, Marcus Barcham Stevens, Séverine Ballon and Mark Knoop.

Newton Armstrong is a composer, performer, and occasional builder of electronic musical instruments. The focus of much of his work is directed towards practices of music-making that emerge in the composed interactions between people, technologies, and their environments. He teaches at City University London.

7:30pm Thursday 6 July 2023
West Court
Edinburgh College of Art
Edinburgh

Newton Armstrong • A line alongside itself
Alice Purton • The spider’s web is thin, and it holds me [wp]

8:00pm Tuesday 4 July 2023
Cafe Oto
London

Newton Armstrong • A line alongside itself
Alice Purton • The spider’s web is thin, and it holds me [wp]
Natacha Diels • Somewhere Beautiful

Released on another timbre, with Plus Minus Ensemble and Séverine Ballon, cello.

• Thread-surface
• A line alongside itself
• The way to go out

8:00pm Thursday 27 February 2020
Miry Concert Hall
Biezekapelstraat 9
9000 Ghent

Cassandra Miller • Traveller Song
Davíð Brynjar Franzson • Ideation #2.1
Newton Armstrong • thread—surface
Laurence Crane • Octet

Tuesday 25 February 2020
Reid Concert Hall
Edinburgh College of Art
Edinburgh

Cassandra Miller • Traveller Song
Davíð Brynjar Franzson • Ideation #2.1
Newton Armstrong • thread—surface
Laurence Crane • Octet

7:00pm Tuesday 18 December 2018
City University Performance Space
St John Street, London EC1V 4PB

Following recent forays into performative and intermedial work, Plus Minus returns to its roots with a programme of instrumental music with electronics. Four of the most refined and distinctive voices in contemporary music will be featured: Cassandra Miller, Davíð Brynjar Franzson, and City composers Newton Armstrong and Georgia Rodgers. Each of these composers is concerned, albeit in different ways, with the fundaments of the compositional act and the manner in which sonic materials can be contextualised, processed, layered and transcribed.

Newton Armstrong • thread—surface
Georgia Rodgers • St. Andrew’s Lyddington
Davíð Brynjar Franzson • Ideation #2.1 [wp]
Newton Armstrong • the way to go out
Cassandra Miller • Traveller Song

8:30pm Tuesday 6 March 2018
Cafe Oto
18-22 Ashwin Street
London E8 3DL

Newton Armstrong • thread—surface [wp]
Cat Lamb • Prisma Interius VIII [wp]

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

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]

7:30am 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