German composer Alexander Schubert’s Steady State puts the performer into a strange and mad experiment, attended by two others (volunteers from the audience) who attend to him. In this strange laboratory setting, the performer’s brain is at the centre of the multimedia activity of live video, electronics and strobe lights. The performer is hooked up to an EEG-cap measuring dominant resonant frequencies in the visual cortex which are synching to the video stimuli presented in a strobing video projection. Using cutting-edge sensors and programming, live brain control of music, video and lighting are used in this work, creating feedback loops with the brain as the central computational and cognitive component. A sensor-glove is used to control virtual sounds, playing complex solos through subtle movements of the fingers and wrists.

This work is the follow-up collaboration to WIKI-PIANO.NET, a work that Zubin Kanga has performed 32 times in festivals including hcmf//, Cambridge Music Festival (UK), Time of Music (Finland), November Music (Netherlands), TURA New Music (Perth), Darmstadt Summer Courses (Germany), Modulus Festival (Canada), Klang Festival (Copenhagen) and the BBC World Service.

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