Performances of In Her Frown

Sound Source

Plus-Minus

OutHear

20:00, Monday 15 October 2012
Kings Place Hall Two (external link)
90 York Way
N1 9AG London
United Kingdom

Plus Minus presents an international programme of works focused on the ways and means of producing sound and harnessing its resonance. Sound sources include rice grains falling onto a variety of different surfaces, two amplified performers using extended vocal techniques, a piano modified by live electronics, and almost nothing: the “sound” of background noise.

A new work by Alex Hills especially written for the group joins music from experimental American composer Michael Pisaro (external link), the young Dane Simon Steen-Andersen (external link) and Italians Fausto Romitelli and Agostino Di Scipio (external link).

Fausto Romitelli	Trash TV Trance	200210
Simon Steen-Andersen	In Her Frown	2007, rev 2010¶9
Alex Hills	After and Before	2011-12*20
Agostino Di Scipio	Audible EcoSystemics n.3a (Background Noise Study)	2004-05¶10
Michael Pisaro	ricefall	2004¶18

A to B

Plus-Minus at City

18:00, Tuesday 21 May 2013
Performance Space, City University (external link)
College Building, St John Street
EC1V 0HB London
United Kingdom

A concert exploring the possibilities created from interaction between live performance and digital technology. Steen­Andersen’s work turns a sonic microscope on the voice, amplifying and re-contextualising phonemes into musical phrases while Ablinger (external link) transcribes a the microvariations of a blank vinyl record for solo piano. Prins (external link) pits the live performer against a virtual avatar, blending the acoustic and digital together in a new reality. In Rodgers’ piece, a hands-on exploration of the sonic possibilities of percussion is captured and transformed by live sampling, the electronic processing enhancing and augmenting the live performance.

With Serge Vuille, percussion.

Please note 6:00pm start time!

Simon Steen-Andersen	In Her Frown	2007, rev 20109
Peter Ablinger	Piano and Record	201225
Stefan Prins	Piano Hero #1	20119
Stefan Prins	Piano Hero #2	2011, rev 20126
Georgia Rodgers	A to B	201020