On April 20, we’ll be releasing our latest album, Zubin Kanga’s Machine Dreams. Read on to find out about Zubin and the composers involved in the album, as well as the artists featured in our album launch concert at London’s Rich Mix on Fri 21 April.
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the performers…
ZUBIN kanga
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 will be performing the newly-commissioned works which make up Machine Dreams at Rich Mix on April 21.
zöllner-roche duo
Accordionist Eva Zöllner and clarinettist Heather Roche are accompanied by electronics and projections for a set pairing Joe Snape’s Signs of Life – a quirky, pop-infused work that begins in melancholy but by the end radiates hope and joy – with American composer Julie Zhu’s theatrical and surreal Nadir aux Pommes, inspired by the poet Anne Sexton. It’s full of little strange repetitions, odd interactions, and a lot of fish.
blasio kavuma
Blasio Kavuma is a composer, arranger and curator based in London, regularly collaborating with artists on film, visual art and performance art projects. His work has been performed by ensembles and soloists in the UK, US and Japan, and his music has featured on BBC Radio 3.