{"id":9280,"date":"2025-09-26T09:00:38","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T07:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neos-music.com\/?post_type=product&#038;p=9280"},"modified":"2025-09-26T11:40:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T09:40:18","slug":"ming-tsao-plus-or-minus","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/neos-music.com\/en_us\/product\/ming-tsao-plus-or-minus\/","title":{"rendered":"<span class=\"notranslate\">Ming Tsao: Plus or Minus<\/span>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe style=\"border-radius: 12px;\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/6wacer0KCXniAZYIF399Fw?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-testid=\"embed-iframe\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">In <em>Plus or Minus<\/em>, Ming Tsao develops a fascinating \u201cserial machine\u201d based on Karlheinz Stockhausen's composition game <em>Plus Minus<\/em>\u2014a complex system of musical permutations that restructures sound in surprising ways. Tsao transforms Stockhausen's model through strict serial rules, contrapuntal overlays, and a sophisticated play with rhythmic shifts. Material from Stockhausen's <em>Mantra<\/em> is integrated in a deconstructed, \u201cnegative\u201d form \u2013 often recognizable in fragments, but radically transformed. The result is a full-length work for two pianos and electronics that places the highest demands on both concept and performance technique.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">The GrauSchumacher Piano Duo\u2014longtime specialists in contemporary piano music\u2014perform this highly complex work with impressive precision and musical depth. Their many years of experience with Stockhausen's <em>Mantra<\/em> are audibly reflected in their interpretation of <em>Plus or Minus<\/em>. Close collaboration with the SWR Experimentalstudio also opens up extraordinary sonic dimensions: vibration transducers are mounted in both grand pianos, using the soundboard and cast iron frame as loudspeakers. In this way, acoustic piano playing merges with electronically generated sound spaces consisting solely of piano recordings and originating from the instrument itself. Along parametrically controlled timbres, a vibrant, spatial cosmos unfolds, detaching the music from any humanistic linearity and lending it a new, materialistic lyricism.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"KeinAbsatzformat translation-block\">The album is complemented by Ming Tsao's <em>Dritte Stimme zu Bachs zweistimmigen Inventionen<\/em>. This voice, described by Tsao as a \u201cvirus,\u201d deliberately destabilizes the harmonic balance of the originals. With sensitive sound design, Ulrika Davidsson and Joel Speerstra demonstrate on the duo clavichord that even Bach's seemingly monumental structures are fragile and open. 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