Mira Benjamin and Zubin Kanga performing we are environments for each other at the 2023 Cyborg Soloists symposium, Music Ex Machina: Methods and Methodologies for Technology-Centred Practice-Based Research in Contemporary Music

Celebrating the launch of we are environments for each other, a new album of music by Scott McLaughlin performed by Mira Benjamin (violin) and Zubin Kanga (piano & electronics), released on Huddersfield Contemporary Records.

The concert features an extended version of the title track, which concerns entanglements of sound and material and agency, and what paths and possibilities emerge when responding in performance to a complex field of potentials. Zubin Kanga uses an electromagnetic resonator to explore the harmonics of the piano strings, creating feedback drones. Mira Benjamin's 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 holding each other in a balance of resonances, curating serendipity.

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