Lang on Plus-Minus Ensemble

Bernhard Lang

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

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.

EXMO: Sostenuto

Tue, 27 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

7:00pm Tuesday 27 January 2026
St John’s College, Oxford

Bernhard Lang • Game 542
Joanna Bailie • Roll Call
Liza Lim • Inguz
Helmut Lachenmann • Allegro sostenuto

Where the Paths End

Wed, 01 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

8:00pm Wednesday 1 October 2025
Whelan’s Main Room
25 Wexford St
D01 H527 Dublin

Plus-Minus perform for the first time in Dublin together with special guest Ultan O’Brien.

Ultan O’Brien • solo set
Jessie Marino • Seahorses
Seán Clancy • Where the Paths End
Bernhard Lang • DW23: …Loops for Dr.X

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.

Bernhard Lang portrait

Wed, 03 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000

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)

Bernhard Lang portrait

Mon, 01 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000

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)

Cafe Oto

Thu, 18 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000

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.

Bilbao

Tue, 02 Feb 2016 00:00:00 +0000

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

HCMF 2014

Fri, 28 Nov 2014 00:00:00 +0000

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.

Kammer Klang

Tue, 26 Nov 2013 00:00:00 +0000

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

Transit 2013

Sun, 27 Oct 2013 00:00:00 +0000

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)