Franzson

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.

Davíð Brynjar Franzson’s time-stretching work slows down the body and mind to draw one into the grain of sound. The instruments meld with each other, fusing into a single pulsating entity, and creating a hypnotic experience. The witty and playful 8 Songs by composer/performer Francesca Fargion are joyfully observant of everyday scenarios.

The concert ends with Laurence Crane’s tribute to Danish road cyclist Bjarne Riis, as slow changing organ chords trigger gentle responses from clarinet and cello.

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.

7:30pm Thursday 12 March 2020
St Paul’s Hall
Huddersfield University

Kristine Tjøgersen • we should get to know each other
Manuel Contreras Vázquez • Los ojas del pueblo acusan al estado terrorista [wp]
Fiona Pacey • Stiffkey Salt Marshes [wp]
Davíð Brynjar Franzson • Ideation #2.1
Galina Ustvolskaya • Grand Duet

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

8:00pm Sunday 22 January 2006
Campbell Recital Hall
Stanford University
California
United States of America

David Franzson • Il Dolce Fare Niente
Stefan Van Eycken • A feeling of Something Happening
Erik Ulman • Thoughts on the Esterhazy Court Uniform
James Saunders • #220106
Richard Barrett • Tract
Karlheinz Stockhausen/Erik Ulman • Plus-Minus