Monday 12 January 2026, 7.30pm
Plus Minus Ensemble presents three nights of music, joined by special guests Kaj Duncan David and Danish ensemble Scenatet.
MAPPINGS: MONDAY 12 JANUARY 2026
In Mads Emil Dreyer’s Miniature 1, toy carillons create an intimate, dreamlike, and ritualistic world of microtonal melodies. Joanna Bailie’s Roll Call for piano and video takes as its subject a panoramic photograph of the pupils and teachers of a boys’ school in Romford, Essex, made in 1946.
The evening culminates with the premier of Andrea Balency-Béarn’s Mappings (El Mapa No Es el Territorio), a work that transforms personal spaces into immersive soundscapes. Drawing on field recordings from two locations in Mexico City and one in London, the piece reimagines these environments through live performance and digital transformation.
PROGRAMME:
Mads Emil Dreyer - Miniature 1
for four performers
Performed by Scenatet
Joanna Bailie - Roll Call
for piano and video
Performed by Mark Knoop
Andrea Balency-Béarn - Mappings (El Mapa No Es el Territorio)
for seven instruments
Performed by Plus Minus
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.
Scenatet (Denmark) is one of Europe’s most innovative ensembles, merging score music, performance, and dramaturgy in interdisciplinary, site-specific formats. Founded in 2008, Scenatet challenges artistic conventions and engages audiences through bold, genre-defying works. Collaboration across disciplines is central to its practice, resulting in original and commissioned productions that shape the future of scenic music. With a strong international profile, Scenatet tours widely and collaborates with leading composers, directors, choreographers, dancers, and musicians worldwide. https://scenatet.dk/
Mads Emil Dreyer is a Copenhagen-based composer whose work explores the dialogue between electroacoustic and acoustic entities. His compositions often emphasize lightness, brightness, and a sense of beauty and poetry. http://www.madsemildreyer.com/
Joanna Bailie is a Berlin based composer whose work often integrates manipulated field recordings, camera obscura, film and other sound media with acoustic instruments. https://joannabailie.com/
Andrea Balency-Béarn is a French-Mexican composer, film composer and performer based in London. She is currently researching sound-based interactive systems between acoustic instruments, score and real-time electronics. https://www.andreabalency-bearn.com/
