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, and Timothy Cape.
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')
Mimi Doulton, solo voice
New Work by Tim Cape (20’)
Children are Emperors is generously supported by The Hinrichsen 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 Ensemble is a UK based ensemble distinguished by its interest in performative, electroacoustic and conceptual pieces, and experimental open works such as Stockhausen’s 1963 classic, from which the group takes its name. +-has performed at festivals and venues such as Borealis (Bergen), Sampler Sèries (Barcelona), Fundación BBVA Bilbao, HCMF, Klang festival (Copenhagen), MINU ((Copenhagen), MaerzMusik (Berlin), Spor (Aarhus), Transit (Leuven), Ultima (Oslo) and Warsaw Autumn. +- regularly performs at Cafe Oto and records for BBC Radio 3.
Mimi Doulton is a singer of British-Pakistani heritage, based in Stuttgart, Germany. Performances in 2024 included the Austrian premiere of Georg Friedrich Haas’ opera for two unaccompanied voices – Liebesgesang – in Innsbruck, the US premiere of Oliver Leith’s Last Days in Los Angeles, Claude Vivier’s Trois airs pour un opera imaginaire with NEM in Montreal and oenm in Salzburg, and Laura Bowler’s ADVERT at Time of Music in Viitasaari. She has been involved in creating new works with colleagues such as Neil Luck, Jonathan Higgins, and Jasmin Kent Rodgman, and recently premiered work with Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Galvanize Ensemble, Ensemble Ascolta and Ensemble Aventure.
