Cut and Splice 2015
8:00pm Friday 25 and Saturday 26 September 2015
Cafe Oto
18-22 Ashwin Street, London
Plus-Minus will be performing in this year’s Cut and Splice Festival at Cafe Oto, co-produced by Sound and Music, and BBC Radio 3. Cut & Splice 2015 links the work of the pioneers of the sonic avant-garde to the trail-blazers of today and explores the relationships between music machines and the environment. Moving from the centre to the edges of music-making practices, from the last century to our own, the programme seeks to explore these dual radii of influence, that somehow overlap, create interference patterns and forming a fuzzy and yet compelling continuum on which the programmed works lie.
Friday 25 September (Fields/Machines)
Henry Cowell • Aeolian Harp
Cathy van Eck • Groene Ruis
Luc Ferrari • Presque Rien No.1
Clara Iannotta • The people here go mad. They blame the wind.
Simon Løffler • b
Michael Pisaro • Fields have ears 1
Dawn Scarfe • listening glasses installation
Dawn Scarfe • Air Traffic
Agostino Di Scipio • Audible Ecosystems, n.3a (background noise study)
Saturday 26 September (Space/Translation/Device)
Peter Ablinger • Weiss/Weisslich 11b
Peter Ablinger • Renate Fuczik
Bryan Eubanks • Double Portrait
Bryan Eubanks • Listening through glass walls
Mauro Lanza/Andrea Valle • Regnum Vegetabile
Alvin Lucier • Sferics
James Saunders • AT LEAST 100 DEVICES BEING TURNED ON AND OFF
James Saunders • Like you and like you
Hildegard Westerkamp • Kits Beach Soundwalk
Repeat Music
8:00pm Monday 10 October 2011
Kings Place, London
Repetition invites us to focus on details that usually fly by. It draws our attention to the ‘grain of the sound’, so we observe minute deviation and extremely slow change, or fall into a trance-like state. This programme explores different approaches to repetition in music. Although none of the music is literally repetitive, these diverse works share common interests, in creating music out of an extreme economy of means and opening up different kinds of listening environments.
Aldo Clementi • Madrigale
Morton Feldman • Bass clarinet and percussion
Simon Steen Andersen • Study for string instrument #1
Philip Glass • Music in contrary motion
Alvin Lucier • I am sitting in a room
This concert was broadcast on BBC Radio 3
Plus-Minus Ensemble is a London based ensemble committed to commissioning new work and placing it alongside recent and landmark modern repertoire.
