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Zubin Kanga - specially recorded

The latest in new music performance with Kate Molleson, featuring specially recorded tracks from the pianist-composer and multimedia artist Zubin Kanga.

Kate Molleson presents the latest sounds from the world of contemporary music including three new tracks specially recorded recently by Zubin Kanga - whose mission it is to expand the possibilities of the piano through interactive multimedia. In Ballast the violinist/instrument builder/composer Jon Rose draws on decades of experience improvising with interactive motion sensors to create a wild exploration of pianistic hyper-virtuosity, full of thrilling counterpoint between the real instrument and many layers of virtual pianos controlled by a 3D hand sensor. Julian Day's Dark Twin pits the pianist against a manipulated version of his playing that slides in pitch and distorts in colour, starting as an indistinguishable electronic twin and growing into a grotesque doppelg盲nger. And Zubin's own Lines of Flight is about hearing Bach in the revving of aircraft engines on the tarmac. Combining a piano and synthesizer in clouds of live electronics, the final movement of Bach's St Matthew Passion is atomized and mechanized, transformed and reformed. And yet Bach's majestic, mournful melody and restless cadences are always present.
Also on the show, Maya Dunietz's Mammoths, a weird and wonderful sound installation for five pianos and the UK premiere of Heinz Holliger's Ad marginem inspired by a painting by Paul Klee. Plus music for flute, electronics and found objects recorded in the underground spaces of Basel by Clara de Asis and Mara Winter.

1 hour, 59 minutes

Last on

Sat 19 Sep 2020 22:00

Music Played

  • Maya Dunietz

    Zimba

    Performer: Maya Dunietz. Performer: Maya Dunietz.
  • Clara de As铆s

    Repetition of the same dream

    Composer: Mara Winter. Performer: Clara de As铆s. Performer: Mara Winter.
    • Repetition of the same dream.
    • Another Timbre.
    • 3.
  • Julia Reidy

    Clairvoyant

    Performer: Julia Reidy.
    • Vanish.
    • Editions Mego.
    • 1.
  • Jon Rose

    Ballast

    Performer: Zubin Kanga.
  • Julian Day

    Dark Twin

    Performer: Zubin Kanga.
  • Sarah Westwood

    Things you don't yet know you feel

    Singer: Patricia Auchterlonie. Ensemble: Illuminate String Quartet.
  • Maya Dunietz

    Mammoths

    Performer: Maya Dunietz.
  • Jonathan Cole

    A passing moment

    Performer: Fran Gilbert. Performer: Colin Alexander.
  • Heinz Holliger

    Ad marginem

    Orchestra: 麻豆官网首页入口 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ilan Volkov.
  • Zubin Kanga

    Lines of Flight

    Performer: Zubin Kanga.
  • Clara de As铆s

    A passage through

    Composer: Mara Winter. Performer: Clara de As铆s. Performer: Mara Winter.
    • Repetition of the same dream.
    • Another Timbre.
    • 5.

Broadcast

  • Sat 19 Sep 2020 22:00

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