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.
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Maya Dunietz
Zimba
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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.
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Julia Reidy
Clairvoyant
Performer: Julia Reidy.- Vanish.
- Editions Mego.
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Jon Rose
Ballast
Performer: Zubin Kanga. -
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Julian Day
Dark Twin
Performer: Zubin Kanga. -
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Sarah Westwood
Things you don't yet know you feel
Singer: Patricia Auchterlonie. Ensemble: Illuminate String Quartet. -
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Maya Dunietz
Mammoths
Performer: Maya Dunietz. -
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Jonathan Cole
A passing moment
Performer: Fran Gilbert. Performer: Colin Alexander. -
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Heinz Holliger
Ad marginem
Orchestra: 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ilan Volkov. -
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Zubin Kanga
Lines of Flight
Performer: Zubin Kanga. -
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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.
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Broadcast
- Sat 19 Sep 2020 22:00大象传媒 Radio 3
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