Concert Works

2021 – 2022

Luke Nickel
hhiiddeenn vvoorrttiiccees

Connecting roller coaster visuals to Soundbrenner metronomes attached to the pianist.

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Louis d’Heudieres
Reflects dans Sequana

Combines transformed Debussy, text, video and a new glass instrument, the Sequanaphone.

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Georgia Rodgers
Ringinglow

Explores the psychoacoustic effects of combining the piano with gradually shifting and overlapping sine tones.

Christopher Fox
The Wind in the Trees

Combines the piano with live interactive video, transforming films of nature scenes.

Simon Steen-Andersen
Pretty Sound (Up and Down)

Transforms an earlier version of the work through new microphones techniques and filters.

Zubin Kanga
Steel on Bone

Transforms and moulds the interior sounds of the piano using MiMu sensor gloves.

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Mark Dyer
Mensura

A new work for CoMA Manchester using a network of Soundbrenner devices.

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Joanna Ward
FULL AND HOLLOW (bean piece 4)

A new work for Zubin Kanga using Sam Underwood and Richard Sewell’s robotic device

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Nina Whiteman
Fuming

The first of Whiteman’s Cybird Trilogy, bringing together machine learning, artificial intelligence and the natural world.

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Caitlin Rowley & Josh Spear
From the Exquisite Dark

Solo percussion piece in which sounds are transferred from the objects which really produce them into other, playful objects - a plush snake makes the sound of a chain, a plastic watering can when tapped makes the sound of a glass bottle. Commissioned by Ensemble Garage and supported by Cyborg Soloists.

Zubin Kanga
Hypnagogia (after Bach)

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Robert Reid Allan
Do you share coming out stories still?

CHAINES
Escape TERF Island

Lola De La Mata
A meditation on unnatural corporeality in three tableaux

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Zubin Kanga
Early Hours

2022–2023

Philip Venables
Answer Machine Tape, 1987

Transcription, and its failure in the face of extreme difficulty, becomes a poignant metaphor for the AIDS crisis and its devastating effect on a generation.

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Neil Luck
Whatever Weighs You Down

A large-scale multimedia work exploring seemingly immovable objects using MiMU glove technology.

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Nina Whiteman
cybird cybird

The second of Whiteman’s Cybird Trilogy, bringing together machine learning, artificial intelligence and the natural world.

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Alex Groves
Single Form (Swell)

The element of touch and the organic responses it creates is at the heart of this tactile, ‘sensuous ocean of sound’ for ROLI Lumi keyboards.

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Nwando Ebizie
I Will Fix Myself (Just Circles)

Imagine a sapient piano-playing robot of the future, making sense of their sentience through the teachers of their past - including Ravel, Chopin and Kanga…

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Mark Dyer
Scribe

Machine learning, palaeography, transcription, composition and creative writing combine in this project to create a fake medieval manuscript - and composer.

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Laura Bowler
SHOW(ti)ME

Combines piano, theatre, electronics, live video and MiMu gloves, exploring extreme contrasts between the private and public lives of musicians, performance anxiety and the use of social media to construct a musical identity.

Kathryn Williams & Ed Cooper
Fourfold

Ben Jameson & Harry Matthews
Aeolian Fantasy

Oliver Leith
Vicentino, love you

Emily Howard
DEVIANCE

A work exploring the legacy of Ada Lovelace, using machine learning, EEG brain-scanning data by ANT Neuro and video. Created with Zubin Kanga, Bofan Ma and Erik Natanael Gustafsson

Laurence Osborn
Counterfeits (Siminică)

Shiva Feshareki
Whirling Dervishes

Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi
Unstuck in Time

Seán Clancy
Where the Paths End

Jessie Marino
Seahorses

Francesca Fargion
Louise, gently falling

Zubin Kanga
Metamemory

Scott McLaughlin
we are environments for each other

In this work, the violin and piano are connected through an electromagnetic resonator feedback system where the violin signal and the piano feedback are mixed into a single stream to influence the ongoing piano string drone.

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Amble Skuse
Interiterations

Tansy Davies
Star-Way

Alex Paxton
Car-Pig

Ben Nobuto
Bad Infinity

Nobuto’s vision of the cyborg as a ‘bumbling and stalling thing’, for TouchKeys and speaking/singing performer

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Robin Haigh
Morrow

Jasmin Kent Rodgman
one hundred random demons