Zubin Kanga: Answer Machine Tape, 1987: Zubin Kanga’s fearless touch reliably locates the emotive wellspring hidden within the machines. at St John's College, Oxford on Wednesday 18th October 2023

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Zubin Kanga: Answer Machine Tape, 1987

Zubin Kanga’s fearless touch reliably locates the emotive wellspring hidden within the machines.

Add to my Calendar 18-10-2023 19:30 18-10-2023 21:30 36 Zubin Kanga: Answer Machine Tape, 1987 Answer Machine Tape, 1987 was co-created by composer Philip Venables, dramatist Ted Huffman and Zubin Kanga. Intimate and mercurial sounds from a piano modified with new sensor technology, allowing it to write live onto the screen like a typewriter, are interwoven with the answering machine messages of artist David Wojnarowicz, giving voice to stories of 1980s New York, including the art scene, queer history and the AIDS crisis. The programme also features other pieces exploring futuristic new technologies and new pianistic possibilities. Kanga’s own Steel on Bone uses motion sensor gloves and knitting needles to generate great surges of cavernous sound. Vicentino, love you (Oliver Leith) is a set of microtonal pieces for keyboard and synthesiser - and DEVIANCE (Emily Howard), a tribute to Ada Lovelace, uses brain data and machine learning to explore connections between music and mind. All four works were commissioned as part of Kanga’s multi-year music and research project, Cyborg Soloists. Vicentino, love you and DEVIANCE appear on Kanga’s latest album, Cyborg Pianist (NMC Recordings). St John's College, Oxford DD/MM/YYYY

Details

St John's College
St Giles'
Oxford
Oxfordshire
OX1 3JP
England

Wednesday 18th October 2023
7:30 PM

Programme

Kanga Zubin – Steel on Bone
Oliver Leith – Vicentino, love you
Emily Howard – DEVIANCE
Philip Venables – Answer Machine Tape, 1987

Performers

Zubin Kanga – Piano

Programme Note

Answer Machine Tape, 1987 was co-created by composer Philip Venables, dramatist Ted Huffman and Zubin Kanga. Intimate and mercurial sounds from a piano modified with new sensor technology, allowing it to write live onto the screen like a typewriter, are interwoven with the answering machine messages of artist David Wojnarowicz, giving voice to stories of 1980s New York, including the art scene, queer history and the AIDS crisis.

The programme also features other pieces exploring futuristic new technologies and new pianistic possibilities. Kanga’s own Steel on Bone uses motion sensor gloves and knitting needles to generate great surges of cavernous sound. Vicentino, love you (Oliver Leith) is a set of microtonal pieces for keyboard and synthesiser - and DEVIANCE (Emily Howard), a tribute to Ada Lovelace, uses brain data and machine learning to explore connections between music and mind. All four works were commissioned as part of Kanga’s multi-year music and research project, Cyborg Soloists. Vicentino, love you and DEVIANCE appear on Kanga’s latest album, Cyborg Pianist (NMC Recordings).

Zubin Kanga seated at the piano, with text projected onto a screen behind him.

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