Performances of Traveller Song

Miller premieres

Plus-Minus Ensemble

Kammer Klang

20:30, Tuesday 7 February 2017
Cafe OTO (external link)
18-22 Ashwin St, Dalston
E8 3DL London
United Kingdom

Two new works by Cassandra Miller (external link): for Plus-Minus Ensemble, and for soprano Juliet Fraser (external link). Also Fresh Klang: Lisa Illean (external link), and a solo set by Christine Sun Kim.

Mono

Klang Festival

20:00, Monday 29 May 2017
KoncertKirken
Blågårds Plads 6A
2200 Copenhagen
Denmark

thread—surface

Plus Minus

19:00, Tuesday 18 December 2018
Performance Space, City University (external link)
College Building, St John Street
EC1V 0HB London
United Kingdom

Following recent forays into performative and intermedial work, Plus Minus returns to its roots with a programme of instrumental music with electronics. Four of the most refined and distinctive voices in contemporary music will be featured: Cassandra Miller (external link), Davíð Brynjar Franzson, and City composers Newton Armstrong (external link) and Georgia Rodgers. Each of these composers is concerned, albeit in different ways, with the fundaments of the compositional act and the manner in which sonic materials can be contextualised, processed, layered and transcribed.

Handmade

Plus Minus Ensemble

Warsaw Autumn

22:30, Friday 20 September 2019
Filharmonia Narodowa
Jasna 5
00-950 Warsaw
Poland

Traveller Song

Plus Minus Ensemble

19:30, Tuesday 25 February 2020
Reid Concert Hall
Edinburgh College of Art
EH8 9AG Edinburgh
United Kingdom

Traveller Song

Plus Minus Ensemble

20:00, Thursday 27 February 2020
Miry Concertzaal (external link)
Biezekapelstraat 9
9000 Gent
Belgium

Variations

Plus-Minus Ensemble

20:30, Tuesday 18 February 2025
Cafe OTO (external link)
18-22 Ashwin St, Dalston
E8 3DL London
United Kingdom

Plus-Minus (external link) presents three works that each do arranging in a different way. Like the many chamber versions of orchestral works made for Schoenberg’s Society for Private Musical Performances in Vienna from 1918, we include Mark Knoop’s intimate arrangement of Laurence Crane’s orchestral piece Cobbled Section After Cobbled Section.

At the heart of Traveller Song is a transcription of a recording of a Sicilian cart driver (carrettiere) that appears on the album “Folklore Musicale Italiano, Volume 2”, transformed by Cassandra Miller (external link) into a quasi-shamanistic ritual.

The show concludes with the premiere of American composer Aaron Wyanski’s arrangement of Arnold Schoenberg’s Variations for Orchestra, the latest instalment in his Schoenberg in Hi-Fi series.

The Journey

Plus-Minus Ensemble

MUSICON

11:30, Sunday 2 March 2025
Durham University (external link)
Durham
United Kingdom

Two works evoking the journey: Crane’s moving panels and bumpy textures are followed by Miller’s overwriting of an Italian cartier's folksong.