A double bill of performances from Komuna Collective and Plus Minus Ensemble. Featuring works composed by: Michael Gordon, Imogen Davey, Adam Possener, Francesca Fargion, and Oliver Sellwood.
Doors: 7:30pm
Tickets: Coming Soon
The first half of this double bill opens with a post-minimalist work by Michael Gordon, written for the Kronos Quartet in 2010. Next, Komuna Collective performs Visitant, a new piece by Imogen Davey loosely inspired by Electronic Voice Phenomena, spirit boxes, and electromagnetic field detection. The set concludes with extracts from Adam Possener’s album released last year, featuring music for string quartet and electronics that blends influences from Bach to Beyoncé and Internet culture.
In the second set, vocalists Peter Falconer and Francesca Fargion join Plus Minus for two song sets. Fargion’s pieces embody artificial voices, exploring the space between real and imagined performance, celebrating how dreams and intangible mental images are unique to human imagination. Each of Sellwood’s songs is paired with a flash fiction story (under 300 words) by Rose Biggin and Keir Cooper, weaving together fictional events, stretched language, interventions in systems of living, and art-historical fable.
Programme:
Komuna Collective
Michael Gordon - Clouded Yellow
Imogen Davey - Visitant
Adam Possener - Views From The Real World (extract)
Plus Minus Ensemble
Francesca Fargion - new songs
Oliver Sellwood - Charlene from Big Data and other songs
Imogen Davey is a London-based flautist, composer, and sound artist whose work explores the interplay of acoustic and electronic sound across performance and digital media. She performs internationally with snake_case and Trio Farben.
Michael Gordon is an American composer and co-founder of the influential Bang on a Can collective, known for music that blends minimalism, rock, and experimental traditions. His works are noted for their raw energy, bold textures, and amplified sound.
Adam Possener is a composer, violist, and researcher whose work spans contemporary classical, experimental, and electronic music. He founded the genre‑blurring Komuna Collective and has won awards including the Royal Philharmonic Society Duet Prize and the National Centre for Early Music Young Composer Award.
Francesca Fargion is a composer–performer often working with text, songwriting, and self-performance. Her ongoing collaborations with theatre and dance companies continually shape her practice and approaches to performance, and have lead to an interest in an embodied, dramaturgical understanding of composition.
Photography: Matt Favero
Peter Falconer is a multi-genre and multi-disciplinary composer and performer from the North East of England. At the moment he's getting really into linocutting, and he does not normally refer to himself in the third person.
Olly Sellwood (he/him) is a London-based composer, sound designer, and producer whose work explores the intersection of acoustic instrumental practice and electronic technology in live performance. His compositions construct bespoke performance environments that generate new and unfamiliar listening perspectives on acoustic sound.
Photography: Ash Sealy
Komuna Collective is an interdisciplinary collective of musicians, artists and DJs centred around a string quartet, formed in Oxford in 2022. They have performed at London Fashion Week, Classical:NEXT Berlin 2025, Hjorted Art & Music, and across clubs and concert halls around the UK. Their debut album, Views From the Real World, was released in December 2024.
Plus Minus is a UK-based group dedicated to commissioning new works alongside landmark repertoire. Formed in 2003, the group focuses on performative, electroacoustic, and conceptual pieces. In recent years +- has performed at Whelan’s (Dublin), BBC studios, Centro Cultural de Belém (Lisbon), MINU festival (Copenhagen) and Klangspuren Schwaz in Austria.
