Ultima Festival 2015
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
Reinholdtsen/Beckett at the ICA
Wednesday 18 November 2009
Institute of Contemporary Arts
The Mall, London
Plus-Minus and Kämmer Klang co-present an event featuring composer Trond Reinholdtsen and visual artist James Beckett, in a night featuring motorcross trophies, travel sounds, rabbits, power point presentations and microtonal music.
19:00, Lower Gallery
James Beckett • Trophies
19:30, Theatre
Kämmer Klang / Plus Minus perform:
Iannis Xenakis • Charisma
Trond Reinholdtsen • Concert Music Piece
Alex Hills • Some states can be resolved rhythmically
Matthew Shlomowitz • Fast Medium Swing
20:15, Lower Gallery
James Beckett • THE FRÈDERYCK NÙYEGEN SEASIDE MEMORIAL BAND
20:45, Theatre
Kämmer Klang / Plus Minus perform:
Giancinto Scelsi • Duo
Larry Polansky • Ensembles Of Note
Trond Reinholdtsen • 13 Music Theatre Pieces
21:30, Lower Gallery
James Beckett • Rabbit to Score
Talk Show at the ICA
Tuesday 26 to Sunday 31 May 2009
Institute of Contemporary Arts
The Mall, London
As part of the ICA’s Talk Show season, Plus-Minus will spend a week in residence. The ensemble will rehearse in the public galleries, presenting a short concert at the end of each day. The week will culminate in a full-length concert on Sunday 31 May. Repertoire will include:
György Ligeti • Atmosphères (arranged)
Tim Parkinson • Quartet
James Saunders • divisions that could be autonomous but that comprise the whole
Matthew Shlomowitz • Letter Piece #5, Northern Cities
Joanna Bailie • On and Off 2
Tom Johnson • Trio
Laurence Crane • Come back to the old specimen Cabinet John Vigani, John Vigani
BMIC Cutting Edge 2008
7:30pm Thursday 23 October 2008
BMIC Cutting Edge Series
The Warehouse, London
Peter Ablinger • Agnes Gonxha Bojaxiu, Mao Tse-Tung from Voices and Piano
Matthew Shlomowitz • Fast Medium Swing [wp]
Peter Ablinger • Instrumente und Rauschen
Peter Ablinger • Bertolt Brecht, Lech Walesa, Hanna Schygulla from Voices and Piano
Markus Trunk • Raw Rows
Peter Ablinger • Akkordeon und Rauschen
Laurence Crane • Octet [wp]
Rational Rec – Artquest 5th Birthday
Tuesday 5 December 2006
Rational Rec
Artquest 5th birthday celebration
The Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club
44 Pollard Row
London E2 6NB, UK
Laurence Crane • Cello Piece for Michael Parsons
Robert Ashley/Alex Waterman • In Memorium Esteban Gomez
Christopher Fox • Generic Composition #7
Matthew Shlomowitz • Slow Flipping Harmony
John Cage • Five
St Petri Dom
Thursday 17 March 2005
St Petri Dom, Am Markt
Bremen, Germany
Robert Ashley/Alex Waterman • In Memorium Esteban Gomez
Matthew Shlomowitz • Cannot Not
Karlheinz Stockhausen/Erik Ulman • Plus-Minus
James Saunders • #170305
Thomas Meadowcroft • A Vanity Press
David Helbich • Lauthalt
Nadine-Plateau 2005
Wednesday 16 March 2005
Nadine-Plateau
Herderstraat 30, Brussels
Robert Ashley/Alex Waterman • In Memorium Esteban Gomez
Matthew Shlomowitz • Cannot Not
Karlheinz Stockhausen/Erik Ulman • Plus-Minus
James Saunders • #160305
Thomas Meadowcroft • A Vanity Press
David Helbich • Lauthalt [wp]
Concerten Tot en Met
8:00pm Monday 24 November 2003
Concerten Tot en Met
Het Bethanienklooster, Amsterdam
Bryn Harrison • Rise
Matthew Shlomowitz • Thought Rhythms
Michael Finnissy • WAM
Richard Ayres • No. 19
Richard Barrett • von hinter dem Schmerz
Karlheinz Stockhausen/Erik Ulman • Plus-Minus
Nadine-Plateau
7:30pm Saturday 22 November 2003
Nadine-Plateau
Herderstraat 30, Brussels
Bryn Harrison • Rise
Matthew Shlomowitz • Thought Rhythms
Alex Hills • Ars Memoria
Stefan Van Eycken • A feeling of Something Happening
Richard Ayres • No. 19
Tristan Murail • Attracteurs etranges
Michael Finnissy • WAM
BMIC Cutting Edge 2003
7:30pm Thursday 20 November 2003
BMIC Cutting Edge Series
The Warehouse, London
Bryn Harrison • Rise [wp]
Matthew Shlomowitz • Thought Rhythms
Stefan Van Eycken • A feeling of Something Happening [wp]
Michael Finnissy • WAM
Richard Ayres • No. 19
Richard Barrett • von hinter dem Schmerz
Karlheinz Stockhausen/Erik Ulman • Plus-Minus [wp]
This concert was broadcast on BBC Radio 3
