Performances between 2023 and 2024

Plans for Future Operas

Borealis Festival

14:00, Saturday 18 March 2023
18:00, Saturday 18 March 2023
Åsane kulturhus
Åsane Senter 52
5116 Ulset Bergen
Norway

Part of his ongoing series of Plans for Future… works, this staged piece for voice and keyboards is a collection of fragments of ideas, fantastical scenarios that pay no heed to the laws of physics and acoustics. Written for soprano Juliet Fraser (external link) and pianist Mark Knoop, the performance unfolds in front of an abundance of projected drawings, handmade visualisations of Øyvind’s fantasy opera worlds.

Plans for Future Operas

MaerzMusik

19:30, Tuesday 21 March 2023
Haus der Berliner Festspiele (external link)
Schaperstraße 24
Wilmersdorf Berlin
Germany

Part of his ongoing series of Plans for Future… works, this staged piece for voice and keyboards is a collection of fragments of ideas, fantastical scenarios that pay no heed to the laws of physics and acoustics. Written for soprano Juliet Fraser (external link) and pianist Mark Knoop, the performance unfolds in front of an abundance of projected drawings, handmade visualisations of Øyvind’s fantasy opera worlds.

Natural World

De Link at Het Cenakel

20:30, Tuesday 18 April 2023
Het Cenakel
Cenakel 1
5022 KK Tilburg
The Netherlands

Juliet Fraser (external link) soprano and Mark Knoop piano

Natural World

New Music Dublin

13:00, Friday 21 April 2023
Kevin Barry Recital Room
National Concert Hall
Earlsfort Terrace Dublin
Ireland

Juliet Fraser (external link) soprano and Mark Knoop piano

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 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.

The Trout

Yorkshire Wolds Music Festival

19:30, Saturday 27 May 2023
St Andrew’s Church
Bainton
YO25 9NL
United Kingdom

Chamber music with Liz Rossi and Rachael England violin, Rosamund Hawkins viola, Christina Waldock (external link) cello, and Richard Waldock bass.

all that dust batch 5 launch

IKLECTIK

19:00, Wednesday 14 June 2023
IKLECTIK (external link)
Old Paradise Yard
SE1 7LG London
United Kingdom

all that dust (external link) returns to IKLECTIK for a launch event celebrating their fifth batch of fresh new sounds. With live performances by Mark Knoop (piano) and Sarah Saviet (violin) of music by Rósa Lind (external link) and Soosan Lolavar, and electroacoustic music by Aaron Einbond that will make full use of the ambisonic sound system. All friends and fans of this little label are welcome: come and join the party!

Ghost Trance

Plus Minus Ensemble

Guildhall School of Music

19:00, Friday 30 June 2023
Milton Court (external link)
Barbican Centre
EC2Y 9BH London
United Kingdom

Plus Minus returns to GSMD to premiere new works by postgraduate Guildhall composers and a realisation of Anthony Braxton’s music together with Guildhall performers.

Real Telepaths

Plus Minus Ensemble

Klangspuren

11:00, Tuesday 4 July 2023
Silbersaal im SZentrum
Andreas-Hofer-Str 10
Schwaz
Austria

Plus Minus leads players from Tiroler Ensemble für Neue Musik and students from Landesmusikschule Schwaz and Musikgymnasium Innsbruck to create a performance with Neil Luck (external link).

Solitude

music we’d like to hear

19:30, Friday 7 July 2023
St Mary at Hill (external link)
Lovat Lane
EC3R 8EE London
United Kingdom

Curated around Satie’s unostentatious yet singular and unique work, performed with Juliet Fraser (external link), soprano, this programme explores music of isolation and seclusion.

Pre-concert event at 18:30: Bea Redweik's Songs as Process – an intimate and interstitial multimedia performance installation.

Methods and Process

Darmstädter Ferienkurse Festival

19:30, Sunday 13 August 2023
Orangerie Darmstadt
Bessunger Straße 44
64285 Darmstadt
Germany

Sharing a double recital (external link) with Elaine Mitchener, Juliet Fraser (external link) and Mark Knoop present Torvund’s imaginative and thought-provoking work.

Portraits

km28

20:00, Thursday 5 October 2023
km28 (external link)
Karl Marx Str. 28
12043 Berlin
Germany

Works by Joanna Bailie (external link) bookend this programme of experimental piano music.

Marino, Clancy, Fargion, Braxton

Plus-Minus Ensemble

19:00, Wednesday 25 October 2023
West Court
Edinburgh College of Art, Main Building
Laurinson Place EH3 9DF Edinburgh
United Kingdom

Plus-Minus Ensemble presents a programme of three new compositions that explore interdisciplinary interactions between music and new digital technologies. The works are commissioned by Zubin Kanga as part of Cyborg Soloists (UKRI funded project hosted at Royal Holloway, University of London), which is connecting composers, performers and sound artists with researchers and industry partners to develop artistic and technological innovations.

Plus-Minus will also present a realization of Anthony Braxton’s Ghost Trance Music — a ritualistic meta-composition in which his entire musical universe comes together.

Marino, Clancy, Fargion, Braxton

Plus-Minus Ensemble

19:00, Friday 27 October 2023
The Lab
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
200 Jennens Road, B4 7XR Birmingham
United Kingdom

Plus-Minus Ensemble presents a programme of three new compositions that explore interdisciplinary interactions between music and new digital technologies. The works are commissioned by Zubin Kanga as part of Cyborg Soloists (UKRI funded project hosted at Royal Holloway, University of London), which is connecting composers, performers and sound artists with researchers and industry partners to develop artistic and technological innovations.

Plus-Minus will also present a realization of Anthony Braxton’s Ghost Trance Music — a ritualistic meta-composition in which his entire musical universe comes together.

Marino, Clancy, Fargion, Braxton

Plus-Minus Ensemble

20:00, Sunday 29 October 2023
Cafe OTO (external link)
18-22 Ashwin St, Dalston
E8 3DL London
United Kingdom

Plus-Minus Ensemble presents a programme of three new compositions that explore interdisciplinary interactions between music and new digital technologies. The works are commissioned by Zubin Kanga as part of Cyborg Soloists (UKRI funded project hosted at Royal Holloway, University of London), which is connecting composers, performers and sound artists with researchers and industry partners to develop artistic and technological innovations.

Plus-Minus will also present a realization of Anthony Braxton’s Ghost Trance Music — a ritualistic meta-composition in which his entire musical universe comes together.

Marino, Clancy, Fargion, Braxton

Plus-Minus Ensemble

MINU Festival

20:00, Saturday 18 November 2023
KU.BE
Dirch Passers Allé 4
2000 Copenhagen
Denmark

Plus-Minus Ensemble presents a programme of three new compositions that explore interdisciplinary interactions between music and new digital technologies. The works are commissioned by Zubin Kanga as part of Cyborg Soloists (UKRI funded project hosted at Royal Holloway, University of London), which is connecting composers, performers and sound artists with researchers and industry partners to develop artistic and technological innovations.

Plus-Minus will also present a realization of Anthony Braxton’s Ghost Trance Music — a ritualistic meta-composition in which his entire musical universe comes together.

Morphing Time

Plus-Minus Ensemble

Deep Time

19:30, Sunday 19 November 2023
Fruitmarket
45 Market St
EH1 1DF Edinburgh
United Kingdom

Plus Minus Ensemble presents a diverse programme, inviting the listener into contact with the material nature of sound, rather than what it represents. Franzson’s time stretching work slows down the body and mind to draw one into the grain of sound. Lim (external link)’s duo is titled after the Viking rune symbolising fertility and imagines a ritualistic creation of sound itself. Crane sustains the most elemental of musical objects to create a feeling of timelessness and space. Lang (external link)’s Game series creates a dynamic and reactive environment for the performers who negotiate an overlapping stack of interacting loops. Shiori Usui (external link) has created a new piece for Deep Time exploring the layering of instrumental and electronic sound.

Genre Roulette

Hashtag Ensemble

19:00, Thursday 7 December 2023
Hashtag Lab (external link)
ul. Barska 29
02-315 Warsaw
Poland

Mark Knoop joins Hashtag Ensemble as soloist for a portrait concert of Matthew Shlomowitz (external link) to mark the start of his residency with the ensemble.

Diabolus Apocalypsis

20:00, Tuesday 19 December 2023
IKLECTIK (external link)
Old Paradise Yard
SE1 7LG London
United Kingdom

Join us for a night of eclectic performances including reconsidered reassembled Romantic Lieder traditions, and pianos bowed with fishing wire and multitracked into thundering magnificence with accompanying film of glimpses of worldwide repetitive manual labour. With Tim Parkinson, Francesca Fargion, and Kerry Yong.