MACHINE DREAMS ZuBIN KANGA

CD + DL | Out on Thu 20 APRIL

Machine Dreams is the upcoming release from pianist, composer, and researcher Zubin Kanga, out on CD and digital platforms on Thursday 20 April.

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.

Kanga will perform Machine Dreams at the album launch event produced by Nonclassical on 21 April at Rich Mix in London: richmix.org.uk/events/machine-dreams-zubin-kanga-zollner-roche-duo/

Upcoming performances

21 APRIL: MACHINE DREAMS LAUNCH AT RICH MIX

About the artist

Zubin Kanga is a pianist, composer, and technologist. For over a decade, he has been at the forefront of curating and creating interdisciplinary musical programmes that seek to explore and redefine what it means to be a performer through interactions with new technologies.

In 2020, following his appointment as Lecturer in Musical Performance and Digital Arts at Royal Holloway University, Kanga was awarded a £1.4 million UK Research and Innovation Future Leaders Fellowship to fund his latest multi-year project Cyborg Soloists, which is unlocking new possibilities in composition and performance through interactions with AI and machine learning; interactive visuals and VR; motion and biosensors, and new hybrid instruments.

Zubin has premiered more than 130 works and performed at many international festivals including the BBC Proms, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, London Contemporary Music Festival, (UK) Melbourne Festival (Australia), Festival Présences (France), Time of Music (Finland), Klang Festival (Denmark), and November Music (Netherlands).

Track listing

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

Credits

All works performed by Zubin Kanga
Recording engineering by Zubin Kanga
Editing by Jamie Hamilton and Zubin Kanga
Mastering by Adaq Khan
Artwork photograph by Raphael Neal
Artwork design by Matt Young