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
Kings Place October 2012
8:00pm Monday 15 October 2012
Kings Place, London
Sound Source. Plus Minus presents an international programme of works focused on the ways and means of producing sound and harnessing its resonance. Sound sources include rice grains falling onto a variety of different surfaces, two amplified performers using extended vocal techniques, a piano modified by live electronics, and almost nothing - namely the “sound” of background noise. A new work by Alex Hills especially written for the group joins music from experimental American composer Michael Pisaro, the young Dane Simon Steen-Andersen and Italians Fausto Romitelli and Agostino Di Scipio.
Fausto Romitelli • Trash TV Trance
Simon Steen-Andersen • In Her Frown
Michael Pisaro • ricefall
Alex Hills • After and Before [wp]
Agostino Di Scipio • n.3a/Background Noise Study
Plus-Minus Ensemble is a London based ensemble committed to commissioning new work and placing it alongside recent and landmark modern repertoire.
