DW23: …Loops for Dr. X

Performed at Kammer Klang, Cafe Oto November 2013 by Vicky Wright, Tom Pauwels, Roderick Chadwick, Mark Knoop, Aisha Orazbayeva and Newton Armstrong.

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.

7:00pm Wednesday 3 May 2023
Reid Concert Hall
Bristo Square
Edinburgh

Bernhard Lang
      • GAME 4-4-4 (2019)
      • Monadologie XXXVI Chopin Etudes (2016-17)
      • DW 4 (2000)
      • GAME 5-4-2 (2020)
      • DW 23 …Loops for Dr. X (2013)

8:00pm Monday 1 May 2023
Cafe Oto
London

Bernhard Lang
      • GAME 4-4-4 (2019)
      • Monadologie XXXVI Chopin Etudes (2016-17)
      • DW 4 (2000)
      • GAME 5-4-2 (2020)
      • DW 23 …Loops for Dr. X (2013)

8:00pm Thursday 18 May 2017
Cafe Oto
18-22 Ashwin Street
London E8 3DL

Matthew Shlomowitz • Popular Contexts, Volume 6
Bernhard Lang • The Cold Trip, part 2
Marko Ciciliani • Black Horizon

Plus-Minus Ensemble and guest soprano Juliet Fraser present three recent works. Matthew Shlomowitz’s Popular Contexts series combines recognisable real-world recorded sound with live instrumental music. In Volume 6, with recordings of both the world and the world of music, the sampler joins vibes and kit to expand the sonic and conceptual horizons of a jazz-pop trio. The Cold Trip is part of Bernhard Lang’s ongoing Monadologies cycle, which presents ‘meta-compositions’ based on well-known scores from music history. Part 2, for voice, piano and laptop, deals with the second half of Winterreise, creating palimpsests of Schubert’s original textures. Marko Ciciliani’s Black Horizon was inspired by trips the composer made to the western deserts of the USA. Ciciliani treats the electric guitars as resonant spaces, subdividing the strings to transform each one into a virtual instrument with its own acoustic properties.

Bernhard Lang’s The Cold Trip, part 2 was commissioned by Arts Council England, Berliner Festspiele with support from the Austrian Cultural Forum Berlin, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival and Hinrichsen Foundation, with development by the PRS Foundation For Music.

8:00pm Tuesday 2 February 2016
Fundación BBVA Plaza de San Nicolás, 4.
Bilbao

Matthew Shlomowitz • Fast Medium Swing
Aldo Clementi • Madrigale
José M. Sánchez-Verdú • Tres Caprichos
Bernhard Lang • DW23: …Loops for Dr. X
James Tenney • Critical Band

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.

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

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)