Wednesday 29 January 2025, 7.30pm

Neil Luck / Plus Minus Ensemble / Tim Cape & Alex Ward

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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

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

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.

https://plusminusensemble.com/

Alex Ward

Alex Ward is a composer, improviser, and performing musician, working primarily with clarinet and guitar. His involvement in freely improvised music dates back to 1986, when he met the guitarist Derek Bailey. He subsequently took part regularly in Bailey's Company events, and has gone on to become a major figure in British improvised music. 
His current work includes the avant-rock duo Dead Days Beyond Help in which he plays guitar, sings and co-writes the material; various groups which perform his compositions-for-improvisers including Forebrace, the Alex Ward Quintet/Sextet, and the Item series of ensembles (the first of which, Item 10, debuted at Cafe Oto in September 2017); and improvising collaborations both regular and ad-hoc with musicians including Steve Noble, Dominic Lash, Kay Grant, Joe Morris and Weasel Walter. Besides his own groups and improvisational work, he also performs in ensembles including the Duck Baker Trio/Quartet, Thurston Moore’s recent multi-guitar projects Galaxies and New Noise Guitar Explorations, and Charles Bullen and Charles Hayward’s This Is Not This Heat. He brings a unique energy and inventiveness to all these projects, elevating them far above the ordinary and injecting them with a thrilling sense of danger and possibility. Much of his work is documented on the label Copepod, which he co-runs with Luke Barlow.
 
"...guitarist Alex Ward [is] a compulsively creative polymath... a reliably unpredictable axe-hero for collaborators of all backgrounds." Stewart Lee, The Sunday Times Review

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