Concert Works
Recently completed
Lara Agar
ON THE WAY OUT
Neil Luck
8.5 Traditional English Folksongs
Ben Nobuto
The Art of Sinking
2024–25
Bastard Assignments
PIGSPIGSPIGS
Folk-horror musiktheater piece, featuring a bowed twig instrument controlled by a Bela nanocomputer. Read more →
Anne Castex
Un tour volé au sablier des Vanités
Tristan Coelho
Hot Take
Amanda Cole
Dream Garden
For Lumatone, flute, clarinet, violin, cello and percussion. Read more →
Lawrence Dunn
Lorī
Rylan Gleave
Gulf
Cameron Graham
Christine
Alex Groves
DANCE SUITE
Zubin Kanga
From The Machine (After Eastman)
Robert Laidlow
TECHNO-UTOPIA
Brigitta Muntendorf
Weight and Load #2
Laurence Osborn
Schiller’s Piano
Jonathan Packham
ghost
Alex Paxton
Cuddly Wuddley
Massimiliano Vizzini
Fantasie Im(prompt)u
2023–24
Vicky Clarke
NEURAL MATERIALS
Larry Goves
Curious codes of silence
Alex Ho
Cyborg Études
Created with Elayce Ismail and Gillian Tan.
Solomiya Moroz
Returns & Simulacra
Jonathan Packham & Jack Frankland
Duo Improvisation
Using the Genki wave ring to respond to a drummer’s movement.
Alexander Schubert
Steady State
Benjamin Tassie
Earth of the Slumbering and Liquid Trees
for sampled historical organs and ROLI Seaboard Rise 2 keyboard. Read more →
2022–23
Laura Bowler
SHOW(ti)ME
Combines piano, theatre, electronics, live video and MiMu gloves, exploring extreme contrasts between the private and public lives of musicians, performance anxiety and the use of social media to construct a musical identity.
Seán Clancy
Where the Paths End
Tansy Davies
Star-Way
Mark Dyer
Scribe
Machine learning, palaeography, transcription, composition and creative writing combine in this project to create a fake medieval manuscript - and composer. Read more →
Nwando Ebizie
I Will Fix Myself (Just Circles)
Imagine a sapient piano-playing robot of the future, making sense of their sentience through the teachers of their past - including Ravel, Chopin and Kanga… Read more →
Francesca Fargion
Louise, gently falling
Shiva Feshareki
Whirling Dervishes
Alex Groves
Single Form (Swell)
The element of touch and the organic responses it creates is at the heart of this tactile, ‘sensuous ocean of sound’ for ROLI Lumi keyboards. Read more →
Robin Haigh
MORROW
For TouchKeys keyboard and live electronics. Read more →
Emily Howard
DEVIANCE
A work exploring the legacy of Ada Lovelace, using machine learning, EEG brain-scanning data by ANT Neuro and video. Created with Zubin Kanga, Bofan Ma and Erik Natanael Gustafsson. Read more →
Ben Jameson & Harry Matthews
Aeolian Fantasy
Zubin Kanga
Metamemory
Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi
Unstuck in Time
Oliver Leith
Vicentino, love you
Neil Luck
Whatever Weighs You Down
A large-scale multimedia work exploring seemingly immovable objects using MiMU glove technology. Read more →
Jessie Marino
Seahorses
Scott McLaughlin
we are environments for each other
In this work, the violin and piano are connected through an electromagnetic resonator feedback system where the violin signal and the piano feedback are mixed into a single stream to influence the ongoing piano string drone. Read more →
Ben Nobuto
Bad Infinity
Nobuto’s vision of the cyborg as a ‘bumbling and stalling thing’, for TouchKeys and speaking/singing performer. Read more →
Laurence Osborn
Counterfeits (Siminică)
Alex Paxton
Car-Pig
Jasmin Kent Rodgman
one hundred random demons
Amble Skuse
Interiterations
Philip Venables
Answer Machine Tape, 1987
Transcription, and its failure in the face of extreme difficulty, becomes a poignant metaphor for the AIDS crisis and its devastating effect on a generation. Read more →
Nina Whiteman
cybird cybird
The second of Whiteman’s Cybird Trilogy, bringing together machine learning, artificial intelligence and the natural world. Read more →
Kathryn Williams & Ed Cooper
Fourfold
2021–22
Robert Reid Allan
Do you share coming out stories still?
CHAINES
Escape TERF Island
Lola De La Mata
A meditation on unnatural corporeality in three tableaux
Mark Dyer
Mensura
A new work for CoMA Manchester using a network of Soundbrenner devices. Read more →
Christopher Fox
The Wind in the Trees
Combines the piano with live interactive video, transforming films of nature scenes.
Louis d’Heudieres
Reflects dans Sequana
Combines transformed Debussy, text, video and a new glass instrument, the Sequanaphone. Read more →
Zubin Kanga
Early Hours
Zubin Kanga
Hypnagogia (after Bach)
Zubin Kanga
Steel on Bone
Transforms and moulds the interior sounds of the piano using MiMu sensor gloves. Read more →
Luke Nickel
hhiiddeenn vvoorrttiiccees
Connecting roller coaster visuals to Soundbrenner metronomes attached to the pianist. Read more →
Georgia Rodgers
Ringinglow
Explores the psychoacoustic effects of combining the piano with gradually shifting and overlapping sine tones.
Caitlin Rowley & Josh Spear
From the Exquisite Dark
Solo percussion piece using a Bela Mini low-latency nanocomputer to ‘transfer’ sounds from ‘real’ sounding objects to more playful alternatives. Commissioned by Ensemble Garage and supported by Cyborg Soloists.
Simon Steen-Andersen
Pretty Sound (Up and Down)
Transforms an earlier version of the work through new microphones techniques and filters.
Joanna Ward
FULL AND HOLLOW (bean piece 4)
A new work for Zubin Kanga using Sam Underwood and Richard Sewell’s robotic device. Read more →
Nina Whiteman
Fuming
The first of Whiteman’s Cybird Trilogy, bringing together machine learning, artificial intelligence and the natural world. Read more →
