Neil Luck / Plus Minus Ensemble / Mimi Doulton
7:30pm Wednesday 29 January 2025
Cafe Oto
London
Liza Lim • Inguz
Kristine Tjørgersen • We should get to know each other
Marta Sniady • Your only limit is you
Also featuring Neil Luck, Adam de la Cour and Cameron Dodds performing Children are Emperors, and Mimi Doulton performing a new work by Tim Cape.
Games and Songs
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.
Deep Time
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.
