Video still of Chisato Minamimura from Neil Luck’s Whatever Weighs You Down

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Zubin Kanga performs the UK premiere of Neil Luck’s 40-minute work for piano, electronics, two videos and MiMU sensor gloves, Whatever Weighs You Down. An intense and bizarre meditation on weights, senses, inertia and dreams, Whatever Weighs You Down features Deaf performance artist Chisato Minamimura as an onscreen co-performer in an intense gestural dialgoue with Kanga’s piano and sonified movements using the MiMU gloves. Composer-performer James Oldham also appears as a chaotic second onscreen protagonist.

World premieres by Nina Whiteman and Nwando Ebizie, combining the piano with a Moog synthesizer and sensor technology from Movesense and Holonic Systems, alongside Kanga’s own Steel on Bone, and a solo performance by Luck complete the programme.

Nina Whiteman – Cybird Cybird (World Premiere)
Nwando Ebizie – I Will Fix Myself (Just Circles) (World Premiere)
Zubin Kanga – Steel on Bone
Neil Luck – New Work (World Premiere)
Neil Luck – Whatever Weighs You Down (UK Premiere)

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