Mood board for the visuals for Steady State.

Zubin Kanga performs Alexander Schubert’s Cyborg Soloists-commissioned piece Steady State in Dublin. Using state-of-the-art brain sensors, (along with body and motion sensors) to control video, light and sound, this work is staged as a retro sci-fi laboratory experiment in which the cyborg performers’ brain becomes a component in an audio-visual feedback loop. This is the world premiere of this groundbreaking work. 

The concert also features Zubin Kanga’s own Steel on Bone, using MiMU sensor gloves to shape visceral sounds from inside the piano using gestures through the air. The concert concludes with British composer Laura Bowler’s SHOW(ti)ME, which explores the contrast between musicians’ public personas (on stage and social media) and their private anxieties. It draws back the mask of performance through an explosive magnification of the minutiae of piano practice, combining the piano with a range of technologies including live video and audio (including talking emoji) and MiMU sensor gloves.

Tickets available now from the National Concert Hall’s website →