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 →