Wednesday 29 January 2025, 7.30pm
Three sets by two music groups and one soloist of new and recent works for live musicians and multimedia. The programme includes premieres by Neil Luck with a trio Children are Emperors, plus Timothy Cape and Alex Ward.
Children are Emperors
Neil Luck, voice and objects
Adam de la Cour, voice and guitar
Cameron Dodds, human puppet
Children are Emperors (25’)
Plus-Minus Ensemble
Vicky Wright, clarinet
Alice Purton, cello
Mark Knoop, piano
Liza Lim, Inguz (8')
Kristine Tjøgersen, We should get to know each other (8')
Marta Sniady, Your only limit is you (10')
Tim Cape and Alex Ward
Neil Luck is generously supported by The Hinrichsen Foundation and The Vaughan Williams Foundation
Neil Luck is a musician based in the UK.
His work takes a range of forms from music-theatre, to concert works, radio, public projects and recordings, and is the founder and director of the experimental music ensemble ARCO.
Neil has worked with and written for people and ensembles in the UK and abroad, and presented work at music venues, festivals, and galleries internationally including Tate Britain, Tate Modern, BBC Proms, Aarhus and Vilnius European Capital of Culture festivals (2017, 2009), V&A, Tokyo Experimental Festival, London Contemporary Music Festival, BBC Radio 3, Venice Biennale, ICA, Whitechapel Gallery, MATA Festival (New York), BBC Proms, Palais de Tokyo (Paris), November Music, Klangforum Wien, Apartment House, and Explore Ensemble. Neil also performs with artist Jennifer Walshe in the duo WACK, touring internationally.
Plus Minus is a UK-based group dedicated to commissioning new works alongside modern and landmark repertoire. Formed in 2003, the group focuses on performative, electroacoustic, and conceptual pieces, Plus-Minus explores experimental works, including Stockhausen’s 1963 classic, after which the ensemble is named. The ensemble was resident at University of Edinburgh from 2019 to 2024 and in recent years has performed at Whelan’s (Dublin), BBC studios, Centro Cultural de Belém (Lisbon), MINU festival (Copenhagen) and Klangspuren Schwaz in Austria.
