Crane on Plus-Minus Ensemble

Laurence Crane

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Octet

Performed at Milton Court Concert Hall, London on 19 October 2021 as part of the ‘Festival of Laurence Crane’. Commissioned by Plus-Minus Ensemble with funds provided by the PRS Foundation.

Cobbled Section After Cobbled Section

Performed at Milton Court Concert Hall, London on 19 October 2021 as part of the ‘Festival of Laurence Crane’. Original version commissioned by BBC Radio 3 for the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, this arrangement by Mark Knoop.

The Journey

Sun, 02 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

11:30am Sunday 2 March 2025
Music Department, Durham University
Palace Green
Durham

Laurence Crane • Cobbled Section After Cobbled Section
Cassandra Miller • Traveller Song

mirror-shift

Fri, 21 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

7:00pm Friday 21 February 2025
West Court, Edinburgh College of Art
74 Lauriston Place
Edinburgh

Martin Parker • mirror-shift
Laurence Crane • Cobbled Section After Cobbled Section
Arnold Schoenberg, arr. Aaron Wyanski • Variations for Orchestra

Variations

Tue, 18 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

7:30pm Tuesday 18 February 2025
Cafe Oto
London

Arnold Schoenberg, arr. Aaron Wyanski • Variations for Orchestra [wp]
Laurence Crane • Cobbled Section After Cobbled Section
Cassandra Miller • Traveller Song

Games and Songs

Sat, 24 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

10:30pm Saturday 24 February 2024
Centro Cultural de Belém, Black Box
Lisbon
Portugal

Bernhard Lang • Game 542
Liza Lim • Inguz
Davíð Brynjar Franzson • Ideation #2.1
Francesca Fargion • 8 Songs
Laurence Crane • Riis

Plus Minus Ensemble, with Francesca Fargion, voice.

A diverse programme, inviting the listener into contact with the material nature of sound. Bernhard Lang’s Game 542 creates a dynamic and reactive environment for the performers who negotiate an overlapping stack of interacting loops. Liza Lim’s duo is titled after the Viking Rune symbolizing fertility and imagines a ritualistic creation of sound itself.

Deep Time

Sun, 19 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000

7:30pm Sunday 19 November 2023
Fruitmarket Warehouse
Market Street
Edinburgh

Shiori Usui • Morphing Time [wp]
Liza Lim • Inguz
Davíð Brynjar Franzson • Ideation #2.1
Bernhard Lang • Game 542
Laurence Crane • Riis

Plus Minus Ensemble presents a diverse programme, inviting the listener into contact with the material nature of sound, rather than what it represents. Franzson’s time stretching work slows down the body and mind to draw one into the grain of sound. Lim’s duo is titled after the Viking rune symbolising fertility and imagines a ritualistic creation of sound itself. Crane sustains the most elemental of musical objects to create a feeling of timelessness and space. Lang’s Game series creates a dynamic and reactive environment for the performers who negotiate an overlapping stack of interacting loops. Shiori Usui has created a new piece for Deep Time exploring the layering of instrumental and electronic sound.

City, University of London

Mon, 13 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000

7:00pm Monday 13 December 2021
Performance Space
City, University of London

Gérard Grisey • Anubis, Nout
Giancarlo Cardini • Canti Segreti
Laurence Crane • Len Valley Us
Laurence Crane • Sparling

Festival of Laurence Crane

Tue, 19 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000

7:30pm Tuesday 19 October 2021
Milton Court Concert Hall
London

Neil Luck • Real Telepaths
Laurence Crane • Cobbled Section After Cobbled Section (arr.)
Laurence Crane • Octet

Tickets available from the Barbican website. Part of the Festival of Laurence Crane.

Laurence Crane at 60

Sun, 03 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Laurence Crane and Roderick Chadwick meet for an in-depth chat at Barbican lakeside before Laurence’s 60th birthday Festival

Part of the Festival of Laurence Crane.

RC Many thanks for coming along, Laurence. So we’re here to talk about the Plus Minus concert that’s happening on the 19th October, in which we’re going to play two of your pieces: it’s a great combination because it’s the Octet, which Plus Minus has played several times – unusually, at regular intervals throughout the life of the group…

Miry Concert Hall Ghent

Thu, 27 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000

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

Reid School of Music 2

Tue, 25 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000

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

Surrey University

Wed, 09 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000

1:00pm Wednesday 9 October 2019
Studio One
University of Surrey
Guildford

Kristine Tjøgersen • We should get to know each other
Louis d’Heudieres • Laughter Studies 1
Joanna Bailie • Roll Call
Laurence Crane • Riis

Klang Festival

Mon, 29 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000

8:00pm Monday 29 May 2017
Koncertkirken
Blågårdsplads 6A
Copenhagen

Simon Steen Andersen • Mono
Morten Ladehoff • Introduktion und Motoren
Joanna Bailie • Artificial Environments Nos.1-5
Laurence Crane • Octet
Cassandra Miller • Traveller Song

Laurence Crane 50th Birthday Portrait Concert

Mon, 21 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0000

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

Durham University lunchtime concert

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000

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

Talk Show at the ICA

Tue, 26 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000

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

BMIC Cutting Edge 2008

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000

7:30pm Thursday 23 October 2008
BMIC Cutting Edge Series
The Warehouse, London

Peter Ablinger • Agnes Gonxha Bojaxiu, Mao Tse-Tung from Voices and Piano
Matthew Shlomowitz • Fast Medium Swing [wp]
Peter Ablinger • Instrumente und Rauschen
Peter Ablinger • Bertolt Brecht, Lech Walesa, Hanna Schygulla from Voices and Piano
Markus Trunk • Raw Rows
Peter Ablinger • Akkordeon und Rauschen
Laurence Crane • Octet [wp]

Borealis Festival

Fri, 16 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000

9:00pm Friday 16 March 2007
Borealis Festival
Bergen, Norway

Bryn Harrison • Rise
Joanna Bailie • Double
Trond Reinholdtsen • Music as Emotion

Mikroludium

Tim Parkinson • Two Cardboard Boxes
Laurence Crane • Sparling
Laurence Crane • Cello Piece for Michael Parsons
Richard Barrett • Lost
Christopher Fox • Generic Composition #4
Christopher Fox • Generic Composition #7

Rational Rec – Artquest 5th Birthday

Tue, 05 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Tuesday 5 December 2006
Rational Rec
Artquest 5th birthday celebration
The Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club
44 Pollard Row
London E2 6NB, UK

Laurence Crane • Cello Piece for Michael Parsons
Robert Ashley/Alex Waterman • In Memorium Esteban Gomez
Christopher Fox • Generic Composition #7
Matthew Shlomowitz • Slow Flipping Harmony
John Cage • Five

Logos

Thu, 30 Mar 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Thursday 30 March 2006
Logos Tetrahedron
Gent, Belgium

James Saunders • #300306-1
Gabriel Erkoreka • Dos Zortzikos
Laurence Crane • Sparling
Tim Parkinson • Two Cardboard Boxes
Joanna Bailie • under-writing [wp]
David Helbich • Hallo
James Saunders • #300306-2

COMA Summer Course

Mon, 26 Jul 2004 00:00:00 +0000

8:15pm Monday 26 July 2004
COMA Summer Course
Breton Hall, Yorkshire

Bryn Harrison • Rise
Erik Ulman • Thoughts on the Esterhazy Court Uniform [wp]
Robert Ashley/Alex Waterman • In Memorium Esteban Gomez
Howard Jones • Eden Falls Still [wp]
Richard Ayres • No. 19
Laurence Crane • Bobby J
Karlheinz Stockhausen/Erik Ulman • Plus-Minus

This performance was part of the BMIC Cutting Edge Tour 2004.