Zubin Kanga performing Answer Machine Tape, 1987

In Answer Machine Tape, 1987, composer Philip Venables combines the messages on the answering machine of American artist David Wojnarowicz with a ‘cyborg’ piano that doubles as a typing machine via sensors. The tape in question contains messages recorded in the days before the death of David's ex-partner, photographer Peter Hujar. They offer heartbreaking testimony and an intimate look at the New York art scene in the midst of the AIDS epidemic.

Zubin Kanga’s performance of Venables’ work is followed by a performance by Fleur Pierets.

For more information and to book tickets, visit the Concertgebouw website →

Pianist, composer and technologist Zubin Kanga performs new solo piano works created as part of Cyborg Soloists, which combine the piano with malleable keyboards, interactive visuals, motion sensors, AI-assisted motion tracking and other cutting-edge technologies.

Claudia Molitor’s You touched the twinkle on the helix of my ear is a dialogue between the piano and her hands on the screen, which annotate, edit, collage and draw the piece. In Rylan Gleave’s Gulf, the performer walks the fine line between natural and artificial soundscapes, using AI-assisted video motion capture (developed in collaboration with Tom Mitchell, creator of the MiMU gloves) to allow the pianist to shape the sounds of the piano through gestures in the air.

Miguel Ángel Berbis combines waves of piano notes in precise choreography with video and electronics.

Ben Nobuto, in The Art of Sinking, takes the loneliness and anxiety of a pianist preparing for a concert and unleashes his inner monologue on stage in a virtuoso combination of ROLI Seaboard (a malleable keyboard that allows sounds to be shaped by movements within and between the keys), video and piano, uniting the pianistic brilliance of Liszt and Ravel with the irregular rhythms of video game music.

Programme

Claudia Molitor – You touched the twinkle on the helix of my ear (Spanish première)
Rylan Gleave – Gulf (Spanish première)
Miguel Ángel Berbis – Perfecta Imperfecció (world première)
Ben Nobuto – The Art of Sinking (Spanish première)

For full information (in Catalan) and tickets, visit the Rafel Festival website →

Pianist, composer and technologist Zubin Kanga performs new solo works commissioned by Cyborg Soloists, combining the piano with malleable keyboards, interactive visuals, motion sensors, AI-integrated software and other cutting-edge technologies.

Lara Agar’s ON THE WAY OUT combines looping piano textures with deep resonant synthesizer drones and a voice shaped using a Genki Wave motion sensor ring, in an intimate dialogue with stop-motion visuals exploring loss, decay and the inevitable power of nature. 

In Rylan Gleave’s Gulf, the performer treads a knife-edge between natural and  artificial soundscapes, using AI-assisted video motion capture (developed in collaboration with MiMU gloves creator Tom Mitchell) to allow the pianist to shape the sounds of the piano through gestures in the air. 

Ben Nobuto’s The Art of Sinking takes the loneliness and anxiety of a pianist preparing for a performance and explodes their inner monologue onto the stage in a virtuosic combination of ROLI Seaboard (a malleable keyboard which allows sounds to be moulded through movement within and across keys), video and piano, drawing together the pianistic bravura of Liszt and Ravel with the glitchy rhythms of video game music.

Zubin will also be joined by accordionist Andreas Borregaard to launch their duo project with 8.5 Traditional English Folksongs by Neil Luck, a suite of technologically mediated love duets drawn from Samuel Pepys’s collection of 17th century Broadside Ballads.

Information and bookings at https://sound-scotland.co.uk/event/zubin-kanga-piano

Featuring Caitlin Rowley performing on her Twigstrument, created with support from Cyborg Soloists, PIGSPIGSPIGS is an experimental music theatre piece by British composer-performer group Bastard Assignments. It presents a story about an English farming family who get affected by strange, dark powers coming from their land... Four performers on a stage: costumes, homemade instruments. No pigs.  

For this new work, Bastard Assignments reimagine traditional English folk performance, composing their own folk songs, hymns and other music. These elements combine with composed music and improvised performance. Pen-lids and cooking pans, copper pipe, hoses and twigs, as well as conventional instruments, create the soundworld of this sinister fable.

PIGSPIGSPIGS was commissioned by Borealis - a festival for experimental music, Spor Festival and Wigmore Hall, and was created with the support of Arts Council England and Cyborg Soloists.

Details and tickets from the nyMusikk website (in English and Norwegian) →

For their first appearance in Dublin, Plus Minus Ensemble brings a programme of recent commissions exploring loopy, ambient and experimental soundworlds, centred around Seán Clancy’s ‘Where the Paths End’.

Berlin-based composer Jessie Marino’s ‘Seahorses’ creates wonky, broken minimalism, combined with erratic timbral drones. Bernhard Lang’s ‘DW23 Loops for Dr X’ is an homage to Boris Karloff, Prince of the mid-20th-century monster movie. Seán Clancy’s 30 minute multi-movement work ‘Where the Paths End’ blends location recordings from three cities with instrumental textures to create a sense of transcending space and time.

Plus Minus will be joined by special guest, fiddle/viola player, Ultan O Brien who will perform a solo set.

More information and ticket sales on Whelan’s website →

Zubin Kanga presents a programme of four works created for Cyborg Soloists at Noorderzon Festival in Groningen. From fragments of Bach to pulsing arpeggios and alienating dancefloor sounds, prepare for a one-of-a-kind experience where technology and emotion blend seamlessly.

Zubin Kanga – Hypnagogia (after Bach)
Tansy Davies – Star-Way
Alex Paxton – Car-Pig
Alex Groves – DANCE SUITE

For more information and to book tickets, visit the Noorderzon website →

Zubin Kanga presents a programme of four works created for Cyborg Soloists at Noorderzon Festival in Groningen. From fragments of Bach to pulsing arpeggios and alienating dancefloor sounds, prepare for a one-of-a-kind experience where technology and emotion blend seamlessly.

Zubin Kanga – Hypnagogia (after Bach)
Tansy Davies – Star-Way
Alex Paxton – Car-Pig
Alex Groves – DANCE SUITE

For more information and to book tickets, visit the Noorderzon website →

AI and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

Hear the world premiere of Robert Laidlow’s new work TECHNO-UTOPIA, a genre-defining piece for piano, orchestra and new AI live-processed instruments.

Robert Laidlow is at the forefront of exploring the possibilities of Artificial Intelligence in orchestral composition, challenging conventional methods of music creation and performance. In TECHNO-UTOPIA, he experiments with a live-processed piano, synthesiser, and completely new live-processed AI instruments, performed and controlled by soloist Zubin Kanga. The piece uses AI as an expressive instrument, trained with the radio broadcast archive of the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra to explore music in the algorithmic age, the sonic possibilities of new technology, and what separates humans from machines.

More information is available on the BBC Philharmonic website →

Zubin Kanga performs Alex Groves’ Dance Suite at the PRS New Music Biennial. Dance Suite is a collection of hyper-pop songs full of kick drums, synths and snares based on the age-old format of the Baroque suite, bringing together classical virtuosity, queer culture and novel technologies.

Performed on the ROLI Seaboard, Dance Suite explores the messy tangle of emotions found on the dancefloor at 2am, and each movement has a little nod back to the baroque form that inspired it.


Zubin will perform Dance Suite twice, the performances separated by a short interview with the creative team, enabling audiences to experience the second performance with greater insight into the creative process.

This performance is free, but ticketed. Book tickets at Southbank Centre’s website →

An interstellar exploration into the role of the soloist, technology in music, and the future of music-making.

Constellations is a bold collaboration between Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, French contemporary music ensemble L’Instant Donné, and pianist composer-technologist Zubin Kanga.

The programme includes new co-commissioned works that peer into the future and honour the legacy of Pierre Boulez in his centenary. BCMG and L’Instant Donné perform side-by-side, extending the piano with new technologies including digital instruments, sensory devices, and electronics.

Zubin Kanga also performs his Hypnagogia (After Bach), combining a range of keyboards and sensors that explore new ways of creating and shaping sound.

Programme

Anne Castex (b.1993) Un tour volé au sablier des Vanités (2025) - BCMG Sound Investment World Premiere, co-commissioned by BCMG and Cyborg Soloists

Lawrence Dunn (b.1991) Lorī (2025) - BCMG Sound Investment World Premiere, co-commissioned by BCMG and Cyborg Soloists

Bethan Morgan-Williams (b. 1992) ILDIO (2025) - BCMG Sound Investment World Premiere

Zubin Kanga (b. 1982) Hypnagogia (after Bach) - for piano solo and live electronics

Seán Clancy’s Where the Paths End is a collection of three different soundwalks around Edinburgh, Birmingham, and London commissioned by Plus Minus Ensemble and Zubin Kanga's Cyborg Soloists UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship at Royal Holloway University of London. In this closing event to the SPARC symposium at City St Georges, University of London, you will join composer Seán Clancy for a guided soundwalk through Dalston, bringing together field recordings of distant cities and electronic interludes.

The event is free, but please register your interest in attending so the organisers are aware of numbers. You will need to bring your own headphones and mobile device loaded with the free Echoes app. Full details, including where to meet and links to registration on the City St Georges website →

Zubin Kanga performs Alex Groves’ Dance Suite at the PRS New Music Biennial. Dance Suite is a collection of hyper-pop songs full of kick drums, synths and snares based on the age-old format of the Baroque suite, bringing together classical virtuosity, queer culture and novel technologies.

Performed on the ROLI Seaboard, Dance Suite explores the messy tangle of emotions found on the dancefloor at 2am, and each movement has a little nod back to the baroque form that inspired it.


Zubin will perform Dance Suite twice, the performances separated by a short interview with the creative team, enabling audiences to experience the second performance with greater insight into the creative process.

This performance is free, but ticketed. Book tickets at the Bradford 2025 website →

A drone rises from an unseen source; bodies and materiality become enmeshed through sound. What paths and possibilities emerge for two musicians who become entangled with one another through a single sounding instrument? Zubin Kanga uses an electromagnetic resonator to explore the harmonics of the piano strings, creating feedback drones. Mira Benjamin's electric violin is inserted into this feedback, impersonating the piano string and replacing its resonances with her own, trying to find points of metastability, hybrid harmonies where piano and violin strings mutually reinforce. Both players hold each other in a balance of resonances, curating serendipity, inhabiting a performance ecosystem.

Scott McLaughlin’s work we are environments for each other invites the audience to immerse in listening—sometimes gentle, sometimes overwhelming, always unfolding. Listeners may move within the performance space and explore sonic entanglements in this durational and immersive piece.

More information and tickets from City University’s website: https://www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/2025/may/scott-mclaughlin →

Featuring Caitlin Rowley performing on her Twigstrument, created with support from Cyborg Soloists, PIGSPIGSPIGS is an experimental music theatre piece by British composer-performer group Bastard Assignments. It presents a story about an English farming family who get affected by strange, dark powers coming from their land... Four performers on a stage: costumes, homemade instruments. No pigs.  

For this new work, Bastard Assignments reimagine traditional English folk performance, composing their own folk songs, hymns and other music. These elements combine with composed music and improvised performance. Pen-lids and cooking pans, copper pipe, hoses and twigs, as well as conventional instruments, create the soundworld of this sinister fable.

PIGSPIGSPIGS was commissioned by Borealis - a festival for experimental music, Spor Festival and Wigmore Hall, and was created with the support of Arts Council England and Cyborg Soloists.

Details and ticket bookings on Spor Festival’s website →

A conversation with Zubin Kanga about how he uses artificial intelligence for his performance and the potentials he sees in this technology. This talk accompanies his performance the previous day, including his piece Hypnagogia (After Bach).

Details and tickets from the Elbphilharmonie website →

How does the future of the piano sound? Australian pianist, composer and technologist Zubin Kanga examines this question with a concert featuring a range of state-of-the-art technology, from body sensors to AI. The centrepiece of the concert is Steady State, a major new audio-visual work by Hamburg-based composer Alexander Schubert. Staged as a futuristic experiment with two robed laboratory assistants, it uses EEG brain sensors to detect the performers’ brain responses to strobing holographic projections. These brain signals in turn influence the visuals and music, creating continuous audiovisual feedback loops. The work blurs the lines between installation and performance, with the performer turning into a transhuman processing unit in a work that explores the body, computation, hallucination and transcendence. Zubin Kanga also performs three new works by UK-based composers combining the piano, innovative keyboards, synthesizers multi-sensor gloves, and live electronics drawing on themes of the night, nightclubs and dreams.

Zubin Kanga
Hypnagogia (after Bach)

Tansy Davies
Star-way

Alex Groves
DANCE SUITE

– Interval –

Alexander Schubert
Steady State

Tickets and more information at the Elbphilharmonie website →

An event hosted by The Wire magazine that looks at the impact of AI on music making. Composer Jennifer Walshe gives a talk and performance based on her new manifesto 13 Ways Of Looking At AI, Art And Music, plus talks and performances by Zubin Kanga and Robert Laidlow of Cyborg Soloists.

Jennifer will be giving a talk based on her essay 13 Ways Of Looking At AI, Art and Music and a performance of work from her album A Late Anthology Of Early Music Vol 1: Ancient To Renaissance (Tetbind, 2020), in which she worked with Dadabots to train a machine learning system on her voice and map the system's results onto key works of early music.

To begin the evening, Zubin Kanga and Robert Laidlow will discuss, demonstrate and perform new works that feature new creative uses of AI.

Pianist, composer and technologist Zubin Kanga’s Cyborg Soloists research project has been creating new works that experiment with the use of AI (as well as biosensors, hybrid instruments and audio-visual innovations) for the past four years. He will discuss several key works that use generative audio-visual AI generation or autonomous AI co-performers, as well as performing Nwando Ebizie’s I Will Fix Myself (Just Circles) featuring AI-generated text and voices alongside piano and synthesizer.

Composer Robert Laidlow will discuss his new concerto for Zubin Kanga, TECHNO-UTOPIA, to be premiered later this year with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. TECHNO-UTOPIA has been composed in collaboration with the orchestra, who provided their radio broadcast archives as the materials for several types of generative, analytical, and machine listening AI models. Zubin and the orchestra traverse these AI models live in performance, which include IRCAM’s RAVE and AI-based synthesizers, using a variety of instruments including a new AI-integrated instrument – the Stacco (created by Nicola Privato at the Intelligent Instruments Lab in Reykjavik) – which Zubin and Robert will demonstrate. The featured works all raise questions about the uses of AI as a creative tool, the ethics of its use and how artists use it, and what the future holds for these technologies.

The event will conclude with a discussion and Q&A moderated by Emily Bick, editor of The Wire.

Book tickets at Café Oto →

Cover photo by Thor Brødreskift

‘Lumen Machine’ is a thrilling collaboration between Zubin Kanga and Ensemble Offspring. The programme premieres three new chamber concertos by Cyborg Soloists composers. Wielding special powers through a motion-sensor ring, the protagonist in Hot Take – initially a force for good – turns ‘increasingly villainous’. Dream Garden employs the game-changing Lumatone keyboard and Amanda Cole’s own 48-note scale (Cube Tuning) in a mesmerising contemporary chaconne. Renowned German-Austrian composer Brigitta Muntendorf uses light-control sensors to transform the pianist into an alien-like soloist, a ‘monstrous techno-social hallucination’. Meanwhile, Zubin Kanga turns to the rhythmic arpeggiations of an old-school analogue synthesizer to spin a vibrant, whirling dance in From the Machine (after Eastman).

Brigitta Muntendorf: Weight and Load #2 (2025)
Zubin Kanga From the Machine (after Eastman) (2025)
Amanda Cole Dream Garden (2025)
Anna Meredith Bumps Per Minute: Joy Subdivision, Deep Thought Panda, Norcanoe, Tom Cruise Runs (2021, arr. Jessica Wells 2023)
Tristan Coelho Hot Take (2025)

This programme is a repeat of that performed in Sydney on 12 April 2025, where the pieces by Brigitta Muntendorf, Zubin Kanga, Amanda Cole and Tristan Coelho were premiered.

‘Lumen Machine’ is a thrilling collaboration between Zubin Kanga and Ensemble Offspring. The programme premieres three new chamber concertos by Cyborg Soloists composers. Wielding special powers through a motion-sensor ring, the protagonist in Hot Take – initially a force for good – turns ‘increasingly villainous’. Dream Garden employs the game-changing Lumatone keyboard and Amanda Cole’s own 48-note scale (Cube Tuning) in a mesmerising contemporary chaconne. Renowned German-Austrian composer Brigitta Muntendorf uses light-control sensors to transform the pianist into an alien-like soloist, a ‘monstrous techno-social hallucination’. Meanwhile, Zubin Kanga turns to the rhythmic arpeggiations of an old-school analogue synthesizer to spin a vibrant, whirling dance in From the Machine (after Eastman).

Brigitta Muntendorf: Weight and Load #2* (2025)

Zubin Kanga From the Machine (after Eastman)* (2025)

Amanda Cole Dream Garden* (2025)

Anna Meredith Bumps Per Minute: Joy Subdivision, Deep Thought Panda, Norcanoe, Tom Cruise Runs (2021, arr. Jessica Wells 2023)

Tristan Coelho Hot Take* (2025)

* World premiere

The programme will be repeated in Newcastle (NSW) on 13 April 2025.

Featuring Caitlin Rowley performing on her Twigstrument, created with support from Cyborg Soloists, PIGSPIGSPIGS is an experimental music theatre piece by British composer-performer group Bastard Assignments. It presents a story about an English farming family who get affected by strange, dark powers coming from their land... Four performers on a stage: costumes, homemade instruments. No pigs.  

For this new work, Bastard Assignments reimagine traditional English folk performance, composing their own folk songs, hymns and other music. These elements combine with composed music and improvised performance. Pen-lids and cooking pans, copper pipe, hoses and twigs, as well as conventional instruments, create the soundworld of this sinister fable.

PIGSPIGSPIGS was commissioned by Borealis - a festival for experimental music, Spor Festival and Wigmore Hall, and was created with the support of Arts Council England and Cyborg Soloists. This is its premiere performance.

Information and tickets on the Borealis - a festival for experimental music website →

Zubin Kanga performs Benjamin Tassie's Earth of the Slumbering and Liquid Trees at Het Orgelpark in Amsterdam. This 70-minute epic is played across three keyboards, using samples of historical organs from around the UK and The Netherlands.

To make Earth of the Slumbering and Liquid Trees, Benjamin visited and recorded several notable historical organs in the UK and Europe. These included the Van Straten Organ, a reconstruction of a late-Medieval Dutch organ (dating from 1479) held in the collection at Het Orgelpark, Amsterdam, as well as period instruments at St Cecelia’s Hall, University of Edinburgh (a 1765 Thomas Parker Enharmonic Organ and a Chamber Organ from c.1680), and the Wingfield Organ, a reconstructed English Tudor organ by the makers Goetz and Gwynn. In the work, these sampled organs are played by Zubin, as soloist, using three keyboards simultaneously; two MIDI keyboards and the ROLI Seaboard Rise 2. The piece is in three parts: ‘Earth’, a densely layered opening; ‘Air’, a sensuous, microtonal middle section; and ‘Ocean’, in which layered organs pulse, phase, and undulate. Earth of the Slumbering and Liquid Trees will be performed in the round, immersing audiences in 360-degree sound to engage with modes of ritualised and communal listening.

In this lecture-recital, Dr Zubin Kanga and Dr Jonathan Packham discuss and demonstrate several works from the Royal Holloway-based music technology research project Cyborg Soloists.

In these works, new digital technologies create forms of human-computer interaction that verge on the supernatural. AI, biosensors, and motion-sensor instruments are used to conjure artificial voices, communicate with artificial avatars, and render invisible instruments in the air. An accompanying lecture explores how these technologies break down the barrier between science and science-fiction, between real and artificial co-performers, and perhaps even between the worlds of the living and the dead.

Gulf by Rylan Gleave (for piano and motion-controlled electronics). 
ghost by Jonathan Packham (for solo performer and electronics)
I Will Fix Myself (Just Circles) by Nwando Ebizie (for piano, synthesizer and electronics)

EXAUDI vocal ensemble will be performing pieces from Mark Dyer’s Scribe project in this performance of mediaeval vocal music. Featuring pieces from the Codex Chantilly (ca. 1400) and the Old Hall manuscript - the manuscript which Dyer sampled to create the works in his project - EXAUDI will also be performing new works created for them by A-level students at St Leonard’s Catholic School, in partnership with Durham Music Service.

Johannes Ciconia: Le ray au soleyl
Jacob Senleches: La harpe de melodie
Rodericus: Angelorum psalat
Various: Music from the Old Hall Manuscript
Marcel le Gan, ed. Mark Dyer: Scribe
Guillaume de Machaut: Tant doucement; Fin cuers doulz; Riches d’amour
James Weeks: Four virelais

For full details and to book tickets, visit Durham University’s webpage for the performance →

Zubin Kanga performs three new works that fuse the piano with keyboards, sensors and interactive video, exploring dreamlike states, split identities and frenzied virtuosity.

Alex Ho‘s Cyborg Études combines piano and live gesture-controlled electronics with interactive visual design and text created by Gillian Tan and Elayce Ismail. Across five continuous movements, the cycle explores the tension between virtuosity and vulnerability and what it means to collapse their sharp edges together. It draws inspiration from W. E. B. Du Bois’ articulation of ‘double consciousness‘, the toil of racialised experience and the struggle to find new beginnings.

Claudia Molitor’s In den Träumen draws on her own poem of the same name with the repeated refrain ‘doch weil Du einfach nicht hier bist dann bleibt das in den Träumen’ (‘but as you’re just not here then it stays in my dreams’). It combines the piano, ranging from mesmeric textures to scintillating graphic-scored passages, with electronics that draw on her field-recording and sound-sculpting work. Lastly, Alex Paxton injects manic energy into Car-Pig, using sampler keyboards to layer dozens of sounds, including choirs, theremins, tennis balls and animal noises.

Tickets available from hcmf// →

Zubin Kanga performs the UK premiere of Steady State by Alexander Schubert, a work for musician and two assistants which features live brain-sensor control of music and holographic video. This will be the UK premiere of this innovative and theatrical piece.

Part of the free hcmf// shorts day of performances. See the full programme here →

Zubin Kanga performs Philip Venables’ extraordinary and moving Answer Machine Tape, 1987, for solo piano and Augmented Instruments Lab’s KeyScanner technology at Transit Festival in Leuven, Belgium.

Read about Venables’ powerful work about the AIDS crisis in 1980s New York here →

For more information and tickets, visit the festival website →

Zubin Kanga performs three works commissioned by Cyborg Soloists:

Tansy Davies – Star-Way
Alex Groves – DANCE SUITE
Zubin Kanga – Hypnagogia (After Bach)

This performance of DANCE SUITE will be the world premiere of Groves’ second work for the Cyborg Soloists project, after his earlier work for the ROLI Lumi Keys, Single Form (Swell). DANCE SUITE will be performed on a ROLI Seaboard RISE 2 keyboard, and in it, Groves takes chopped-up dance floor remnants and reimagines them for the concert hall.

Tickets and more information may be found on the Southbank Centre website →

This performance is the second of the evening, following Zubin’s performance with Manchester Collective of the London premiere of a new work by Laurence Osborn, Schiller’s Piano. Read more about this event here →

Zubin Kanga premieres Laurence Osborn’s new piece Schiller’s Piano with Manchester Collective. After seeing a replica of Schiller’s piano – which was built by WW2 prisoners and unable to play music – Osborn responds to fascism’s empty attempts to recreate the past in his new concerto. It’s an auditory hallucination where Kanga conjures ghostly samples of piano construction with his keyboard: handsaws, sandpaper, drills.

Also on the programme, music by Grażyna Bacewicz, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Caroline Shaw and Wojciech Kilar.

For more details, full programme and ticket sales, visit Manchester Collective’s website →

Zubin Kanga premieres Laurence Osborn’s new piece Schiller’s Piano with Manchester Collective. After seeing a replica of Schiller’s piano – which was built by WW2 prisoners and unable to play music – Osborn responds to fascism’s empty attempts to recreate the past in his new concerto. It’s an auditory hallucination where Kanga conjures ghostly samples of piano construction with his keyboard: handsaws, sandpaper, drills.

Also on the programme, music by Grażyna Bacewicz, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Caroline Shaw and Wojciech Kilar.

For more details, full programme and ticket sales, visit Manchester Collective’s website →

Zubin Kanga returns to Gaudeamus, performing four works that extend the piano, and his body, with cutting-edge technologies. Massimiliano Vizzini’s Fantasie Im(prompt)u, explores the changing role of AI in the artistic process, as well as a new experimental optical scanner, the Keyscanner, turning the piano into a hybrid audio-visual controller. Alex Paxton injects manic energy into Car-Pig, using sampler keyboards to layer dozens of sounds, from choirs, to bagpipes to animal noises. Zubin Kanga’s Steel on Bone uses MiMU sensor gloves to shape visceral sounds from inside the piano. And Laura Bowler’s SHOW(ti)ME explores the contrast between musicians’ public personas and their private anxieties, in an interdisciplinary work combining the speaking pianist with sensors and live audio-visual interaction.

Massimiliano Vizzini - Fantasie Im(prompt)u (World Premiere)
Alex Paxton - Car-Pig
Zubin Kanga - Steel on Bone
Laura Bowler - SHOW(ti)ME

Tickets for this performance may be purchased via the Gaudeamus website →

Car-Pig by Alex Paxton and SHOW(ti)ME by Laura Bowler were both commissioned by Zubin Kanga as part of Cyborg Soloists, supported by a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship and Royal Holloway, University of London. Steel on Bone was also developed as part of Cyborg Soloists. Fantasie Im(prompt)u by Massimiliano Vizzini was co-commissioned by Gaudeamus Festival and Zubin Kanga, with the support of Gaudeamus Festival.