Concert Works
2021 – 2022
Luke Nickel
hhiiddeenn vvoorrttiiccees
Connecting roller coaster visuals to Soundbrenner metronomes attached to the pianist.
Louis d’Heudieres
Reflects dans Sequana
Combines transformed Debussy, text, video and a new glass instrument, the Sequanaphone.
Georgia Rodgers
Ringinglow
Explores the psychoacoustic effects of combining the piano with gradually shifting and overlapping sine tones.
Christopher Fox
The Wind in the Trees
Combines the piano with live interactive video, transforming films of nature scenes.
Simon Steen-Andersen
Pretty Sound (Up and Down)
Transforms an earlier version of the work through new microphones techniques and filters.
Zubin Kanga
Steel on Bone
Transforms and moulds the interior sounds of the piano using MiMu sensor gloves.
Mark Dyer
Mensura
A new work for CoMA Manchester using a network of Soundbrenner devices.
Joanna Ward
FULL AND HOLLOW (bean piece 4)
A new work for Zubin Kanga using Sam Underwood and Richard Sewell’s robotic device
Nina Whiteman
Fuming
The first of Whiteman’s Cybird Trilogy, bringing together machine learning, artificial intelligence and the natural world.
Caitlin Rowley & Josh Spear
From the Exquisite Dark
Solo percussion piece in which sounds are transferred from the objects which really produce them into other, playful objects - a plush snake makes the sound of a chain, a plastic watering can when tapped makes the sound of a glass bottle. Commissioned by Ensemble Garage and supported by Cyborg Soloists.
Zubin Kanga
Hypnagogia (after Bach)
Robert Reid Allan
Do you share coming out stories still?
CHAINES
Escape TERF Island
Lola De La Mata
A meditation on unnatural corporeality in three tableaux
Zubin Kanga
Early Hours
2022–2023
Philip Venables
Answer Machine Tape, 1987
Transcription, and its failure in the face of extreme difficulty, becomes a poignant metaphor for the AIDS crisis and its devastating effect on a generation.
Neil Luck
Whatever Weighs You Down
A large-scale multimedia work exploring seemingly immovable objects using MiMU glove technology.
Nina Whiteman
cybird cybird
The second of Whiteman’s Cybird Trilogy, bringing together machine learning, artificial intelligence and the natural world.
Alex Groves
Single Form (Swell)
The element of touch and the organic responses it creates is at the heart of this tactile, ‘sensuous ocean of sound’ for ROLI Lumi keyboards.
Nwando Ebizie
I Will Fix Myself (Just Circles)
Imagine a sapient piano-playing robot of the future, making sense of their sentience through the teachers of their past - including Ravel, Chopin and Kanga…
Mark Dyer
Scribe
Machine learning, palaeography, transcription, composition and creative writing combine in this project to create a fake medieval manuscript - and composer.
Laura Bowler
SHOW(ti)ME
Combines piano, theatre, electronics, live video and MiMu gloves, exploring extreme contrasts between the private and public lives of musicians, performance anxiety and the use of social media to construct a musical identity.
Kathryn Williams & Ed Cooper
Fourfold
Ben Jameson & Harry Matthews
Aeolian Fantasy
Oliver Leith
Vicentino, love you
Emily Howard
DEVIANCE
A work exploring the legacy of Ada Lovelace, using machine learning, EEG brain-scanning data by ANT Neuro and video. Created with Zubin Kanga, Bofan Ma and Erik Natanael Gustafsson
Laurence Osborn
Counterfeits (Siminică)
Shiva Feshareki
Whirling Dervishes
Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi
Unstuck in Time
Seán Clancy
Where the Paths End
Jessie Marino
Seahorses
Francesca Fargion
Louise, gently falling
Zubin Kanga
Metamemory
Scott McLaughlin
we are environments for each other
In this work, the violin and piano are connected through an electromagnetic resonator feedback system where the violin signal and the piano feedback are mixed into a single stream to influence the ongoing piano string drone.
Amble Skuse
Interiterations
Tansy Davies
Star-Way
Alex Paxton
Car-Pig
Ben Nobuto
Bad Infinity
Nobuto’s vision of the cyborg as a ‘bumbling and stalling thing’, for TouchKeys and speaking/singing performer
Robin Haigh
Morrow
Jasmin Kent Rodgman
one hundred random demons
2023-24
Solomiya Moroz
Returns & Simulacra
Vicky Clarke
NEURAL MATERIALS
Benjamin Tassie
Earth of the Slumbering and Liquid Trees
