Sensate Focus

Performed at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2014. Performers: Tom Pauwels, Vicky Wright, Mark Knoop and Aisha Orazbayeva.

9:30pm Saturday 8 October 2022
Teatro Aveirense, Sala Principal
Aveiro
Portugal

Tickets available from the Theatre.

Kristine Tjøgersen • we should get to know each other
Eva Aguilar • Insula
Lois V Vierk • Go Guitars
Joanna Bailie • He just missed the train
Alexander Schubert • Sensate Focus

Thursday 28 November 2019
West Court
Edinburgh College of Art
Edinburgh

Joanna Bailie • On and Off
Lois V Vierk • Go Guitars
Lawrence Dunn • Set of Four
Louis d’Heudieres • Laughter Studies 1
Alexander Schubert • Sensate Focus

7:30pm Monday 14 March 2016
Haus der Berliner Festspiele
Schaperstraße 24
10719 Berlin Wilmersdorf

Concert 1 • 19:30

Joanna Bailie • Artificial Environment No.8
Joanna Bailie • Artificial Environments Nos.1-5

Concert 2 • 20:30

Matthew Shlomowitz • Lecture about Bad Music

Concert 3 • 22:00

Simon Løffler • b
Johannes Kreidler • Charts Music
Natacha Diels • 2.5 Nightmares for Jessie
Alexander Schubert • Sensate Focus

5:00pm Friday 11 September 2015
Den Norske Opera & Ballet
Kirsten Flagstads Plass 1
Oslo

Ensemble Plus-Minus presents a concert of two genre-stretching pieces especially written for the group. Matthew Shlomowitz’s Lecture About Bad Music (2015), drawing on scholarship from a range of fields and employing musical demonstrations and recreations of psychological experiments, asks us to consider if a piece of music can be inherently bad, or whether such judgements are purely subjective. Alexander Schubert’s Sensate Focus (2014) on the other hand, is concerned with the interplay between sound and image, and adds light as a fifth performer to a quartet of musicians. Using strobing effects, Schubert explores issues of sampling and sensorial experience in both the audio and visual domains, and our ability to form continuities from discrete objects.

Matthew Shlomowitz • Lecture About Bad Music [wp]
Alexander Schubert • Sensate Focus

8:00pm Tuesday 2 December 2014
Kammer Klang
Cafe Oto
18-22 Ashwin Street
London

Alexander Schubert • Sensate Focus
Jennifer Walshe • Everything You Own Has Been Taken To A Depot Somewhere
Peter Ablinger • Instrumente und Rauschen

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.