• Ming Tsao
  • Plus Minus (2013)
    (for ensemble)

  • Henry Litolff’s Verlag GmbH & Co. KG (World)
  • cl/0.1.1.0/4perc/pf/gtr.acn/vc
  • 31 min
    • 1st March 2025, Nationaltheater Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
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Programme Note

Plus Minus is a 30–minute free realization of Stockhausen’s open score composition of the same name from 1963.  It refers to all 7 pages of the open score and utilizes two layers of activity: a trio of cello, piano, clarinet and a second layer consisting of trumpet, trombone, percussion, guitar, and accordion. Plus Minus enters into a dialogue with the rules of the open score that makes it a living work animated by the energy produced by a confrontation with, and working out of, Stockhausen’s serial thinking.

 

 

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