Machine Dreams (Nonclassical)

April 20, 2023

Machine Dreams is a new release from pianist, composer, and researcher Zubin Kanga, released on UK label Nonclassical.

About the Album

Tracklist:  

  1. Car-Pig (composed by Alex Paxton)
  2. Star-Way (composed by Tansy Davies)
  3. Single Form (Swell) (composed by Alex Groves)
  4. I Will Fix Myself (Just Circles) (composed by Nwando Ebizie)
  5. Morrow (composed by Robin Haigh)
  6. one hundred random demons (composed by Jasmin Kent Rodgman)
  7. Escape TERF Island (composed by CHAINES)
  8. Interiterations (composed by Amble Skuse)
  9. Metamemory (composed by Zubin Kanga)
  10. Bad Infinity (composed by Ben Nobuto)

Australian born UK-based pianist, composer and technologist Zubin Kanga blurs the boundaries between music and technology in his latest album Machine Dreams. This ten-track album inspired by cyborgs and other sci-fi themes, features music from a host of internationally acclaimed experimental and cutting-edge composers: Alex Paxton, Tansy Davies, Alex Groves, Nwando Ebizie, Robin Haigh, Jasmin Kent Rodgman, CHAINES, Amble Skuse, Ben Nobuto and Kanga himself.​

​A fearless advocate of the new and unknown, Kanga commissioned Machine Dreams as part of Cyborg Soloists; a four-year UK Research and Innovation Future Leaders Fellowship research project, hosted by London’s Royal Holloway University. At the forefront of curating and creating interdisciplinary musical programmes for over a decade, Kanga’s new album draws together classic synthesizers and pioneering sensor technology, unlocking new possibilities in music making through interactions with AI and machine learning; interactive visuals and VR; motion and biosensors; and new hybrid instruments.