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 |
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 | 2012¶8 |
Newton Armstrong | Nature Pieces | 2013‡15 |
Bernhard Lang | DW23: ...Loops for Dr. X | 2013¶20 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |