Performances of DW23: ...Loops for Dr. X

Harakiri

Plus-Minus Ensemble

TRANSIT Festival

16:00, Sunday 27 October 2013
Leuven STUK (external link)
Naamsestraat 96
B-3000 Leuven
Belgium

Plus-Minus Ensemble present Peter Ablinger (external link)’s settings of the voices of Jacques Brel, Forough Farrokzhad and Ilya Prigogine. New works by Guy De Bièvre (external link) and Bernhard Lang (external link) link with the ensemble’s experimental aesthetics. With his controversial Harakiri it seemed as if Nicolaus A. Huber was committing harakiri himself — since the very sparse composition didn’t satisfy the commissioning party, it was years before the piece had its premiere.

Nicolaus A. Huber Harakiri 1971, arr 201216
Peter Ablinger Voices and Piano (selection) 1998-*
Guy de Bièvre Time Zones 2013*10
Bernhard Lang DW23: ...Loops for Dr. X 2013*20

Plus-Minus Ensemble

Kämmer Klang

20:00, Tuesday 26 November 2013
Cafe OTO (external link)
18-22 Ashwin St, Dalston
E8 3DL London
United Kingdom

Plus-Minus (external link) presents new works written for the the ensemble.

Johannes Kreidler Money 20128
Newton Armstrong Nature Pieces 201315
Bernhard Lang DW23: ...Loops for Dr. X 201320

Focus Loops

Plus-Minus Ensemble

Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival

16:00, Friday 28 November 2014
Phipps Hall
University of Huddersfield, Queensgate
HD1 3DH Huddersfield Yorkshire
United Kingdom

Plus-Minus (external link) presents a concert of works especially written for the group, including the premiere of Alexander Schubert (external link)’s Sensate Focus, alongside recent pieces by Bernhard Lang (external link) and James Weeks (external link). The programme features field recordings of street musicians, samples from a horror movie soundtrack, a synchronised light show and itchy loops.

James Weeks Looping Busker Music 201315
Alexander Schubert Sensate Focus 2014*18
Bernhard Lang DW23: ...Loops for Dr. X 201320

Fast Medium Swing

Conciertos de Música Contemporánea Fundación BBVA-Bilbao

19:30, Tuesday 2 February 2016
Fundación BBVA Bilbao (external link)
Plaza de San Nicolás, 4
Bilbao
Spain

Matthew Shlomowitz Fast Medium Swing 200810
José M Sánchez-Verdú Tres Caprichos 2003/059
James Tenney Critical Band 1988/200017
Aldo Clementi Madrigale 19799
Bernhard Lang DW23: ...Loops for Dr. X 201320

Bernhard Lang portrait

Plus-Minus Ensemble

20:00, Monday 1 May 2023
Cafe OTO (external link)
18-22 Ashwin St, Dalston
E8 3DL London
United Kingdom

Repetition does not change anything in the repeated object, but it does change something in the mind that looks at it. (David Hume, quoted by Gilles Deleuze)

Austrian composer Bernhard Lang (external link)’s ongoing series Differenz/Wiederholung (Difference/Repetition) explores the potential of repetition in music in its many varied forms. Lang’s work ranges from the strictly notated to graphical, from fully specified to semi-improvised, and from highly abstract material to quotes from other composers and samples from the soundtracks of Boris Karloff films.

The concert will include the launch of a new book on Lang by musicologist Christine Dysers and an interview with the composer.

Bernhard Lang DW 4 200018
Bernhard Lang GAME 4-4-4 201912
Bernhard Lang Monadologie XXXVI Chopin Etudes 2016-1720
Bernhard Lang GAME 5-4-2 20208
Bernhard Lang DW23: ...Loops for Dr. X 201320

Bernhard Lang portrait

Plus-Minus Ensemble

19:00, Wednesday 3 May 2023
Reid Concert Hall
Edinburgh College of Art
EH8 9AG Edinburgh
United Kingdom

Repetition does not change anything in the repeated object, but it does change something in the mind that looks at it. (David Hume, quoted by Gilles Deleuze)

Austrian composer Bernhard Lang (external link)’s ongoing series Differenz/Wiederholung (Difference/Repetition) explores the potential of repetition in music in its many varied forms. Lang’s work ranges from the strictly notated to graphical, from fully specified to semi-improvised, and from highly abstract material to quotes from other composers and samples from the soundtracks of Boris Karloff films.

Bernhard Lang DW 4 200018
Bernhard Lang GAME 4-4-4 201912
Bernhard Lang Monadologie XXXVI Chopin Etudes 2016-1720
Bernhard Lang GAME 5-4-2 20208
Bernhard Lang DW23: ...Loops for Dr. X 201320
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first performance in The United Kingdom
first performance of this version