Xenakis

7:30pm Tuesday 20 October 2026
The Horse Hospital
Collonade, Bloomsbury
London WC1N 1JD

Plus-Minus Ensemble introduces UK audiences to the music of American composer Tristan Perich, with two works for instruments with 6-channel 1-bit electronics. The WIRE magazine describes his compositions as “an austere meeting of electronic and organic” and the Wall Street Journal said “its oscillations have an intense, hypnotic force and a surprising emotional depth”. See here for a short intro to Tristan’s 1-bit music.

The programme also features works by Natacha Diels and Jack Sheen. In The Mad Moon and the Owl, Diels sets a simple narrated story to fantastical music for clarinet and synth. Sheen's Lop tests the edges of instrumental sound in tiny, looping, evolving patterns.

To kick us off we’re delighted to welcome guest trombonist Benny Vernon with a performance of Xenakis’s awesome solo Keren.

Benny Vernon, trombone

Iannis Xenakis • Keren

Plus-Minus Ensemble

Jack Sheen • Lop
Tristan Perich • Formations
Tristan Perich • Observations
Natacha Diels • The Mad Moon and the Owls

Players: Mira Benjamin, Elsa Bradley, Mark Knoop, Alice Purton, Vicky Wright

Tickets available here.

7:00pm Tuesday 29 November 2011
Performance Space at City University London
College Building, St John Street, London EC1V 4PB

Iannis Xenakis • Dikhthas
Aldo Clementi • Madrigale
Johannes Kreidler • Klavierstück 5
Alex Hills • 5 Resonance Studies
Simon Steen Andersen • Study for string instrument #1

7:30am Thursday 10 March 2011
Huddersfield University Concert Series
St Paul’s Hall, Huddersfield

Plus Minus presents Dikhthas and Evryali by Xenakis, works by Simon Steen-Andersen, Peter Ablinger and two pieces written especially for the group by Huddersfield postgraduate composers. On Wednesday the 9th of March the group will hold a workshop with Huddersfield student composers.

Iannis Xenakis • Dikhthas
Matthew Sergeant • veils [wp]
Philip Glass • Music in Contrary Motion
Iannis Xenakis • Evryali
Colin Tucker • the indifferent horizon apathetically rests on the ground, devouring everything that looks like something [wp]
Peter Ablinger • Amtssee bei Regen

Monday 12 April 2010
Kings Place
90 York Way
London

Iannis Xenakis • Dikhthas
Rebecca Saunders • Vermilion
Iannis Xenakis • Evryali
Bryn Harrison • Repetitions in Extended Time

1:10pm Thursday 11 March 2010
Durham University

Mariam Rezaei • P.M. [wp]
Peter Ablinger • Voices and Piano
Laurence Crane • Riis
Iannis Xenakis • Evryali
Damien Ricketson • Same Steps

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