Zubin Kanga performs new works exploring cyborg pianism by Louis d’Heudieres, Luke Nickel and himself, combining the piano with a range of sensors, synthesizers, strobe lights, electronics, video, an instrument made of glass other and other technologies.

Louis d’Heudieres’ 'Reflects dans Sequana' is a speculative fiction about Debussy's piano music and a Celtic river goddess cult. It incorporates themes of pianistic technique, romantic hero-worship, and ritual cleansing. Making use of a unique instrument, the Sequanaphone, as well as electronics and video, it looks at traditional piano music through a warped lens, seeking to playfully rewrite and dismantle the familiar story of this tradition. Zubin Kanga uses classic analogue synthesizers to create cascading walls of sound and spiralling rhythms that are then melted and morphed using MiMU sensor gloves. Luke Nickel uses Soundbrenner’s haptic metronomes alongside dreamlike roller-coaster visuals and the sounds of Ravel filtered through an AI, in a play of vertiginous tempi between the hands.

The performance is part of Cyborg Soloists, a multi-year artistic-research project innovating new types of interactions between musicians and new technologies, supported by a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship.

zubinkanga.com
lukenickel.com
louisdheudieres.com

Venue: The Old Synagogue
33-34 King St, Canterbury CT1 2AJ

7:30-11pm