Plus Minus Ensemble
{{no footnotes, date=April 2018 Plus Minus is a music group that formed in 2003 specializing in contemporary classical music. Plus Minus's programming features a mixture of avant-garde and experimental traditions, focussing particularly on open-instrumentation pieces such as Stockhausen's '' Plus Minus'', Andriessen's ''Worker's Union'' and Cardew's ''Treatise''. They have done profile concerts of Peter Ablinger, Michael Finnissy, Christopher Fox, Bryn Harrison and Phill Niblock, and have premiered works by Laurence Crane, David Helbich, Damien Ricketson, Oyvind Torvund, Erik Ulman, James Saunders, and Stefan Van Eyken. Members There are eight members in the ensemble: * Mark Knoop – conductor/piano/accordion * Vicky Wright – clarinet(s) * Roderick Chadwick – piano * Tom Pauwels – (electric) guitar * Marcus Barcham-Stevens – violin * Alex Waterman – cello * Joanna Bailie Joanna is a feminine given name deriving from from he, יוֹחָנָה, translit=Y� ...
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Contemporary Classical Music
Contemporary classical music is classical music composed close to the present day. At the beginning of the 21st century, it commonly referred to the post-1945 modern forms of post-tonal music after the death of Anton Webern, and included serial music, electronic music, experimental music, and minimalist music. Newer forms of music include spectral music, and post-minimalism. History Background At the beginning of the twentieth century, composers of classical music were experimenting with an increasingly dissonant pitch language, which sometimes yielded atonal pieces. Following World War I, as a backlash against what they saw as the increasingly exaggerated gestures and formlessness of late Romanticism, certain composers adopted a neoclassic style, which sought to recapture the balanced forms and clearl