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

Zubin Kanga / piano and multimedia
Neil Luck / misc.

Pianist, composer and technologist Zubin Kanga performs the UK-premiere of Whatever Weighs You Down, Neil Luck’s new 40-minute work for piano, electronics, two videos, and MiMU sensor gloves.

Whatever Weighs you Down is an intense and bizarre meditation on weights, senses, inertia, and dreams. It features Deaf performance artist Chisato Minamimura as an onscreen co-performer in an intense gestural dialogue with Kanga’s piano and sonified movements using the MiMU gloves, as well as composer-performer James Oldham as a chaotic second onscreen protagonist.

The event will also feature a solo performance by Luck, and Kanga will perform a set featuring his own work and world premieres by Nina Whiteman and Nwando Ebizie, combining the piano with a Moog synthesizer, and sensor technology from Movesense and Holonic Systems.

All the works in this event have been created as part of Zubin Kanga’s Cyborg Soloists music-technology research project, supported by a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship and Royal Holloway, University of London.

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