Zubin Kanga

• country:Australia
• style(s):Contemporary
• label:not signed
• type:Solo
• artist posted by:Kanga, Zubin

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• Zubin Kanga
• Zubin Kanga (piano)

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Zubin Kanga is a pianist, composer, researcher and technologist. His work in recent years has focused on new models of interaction between a live musician and new technologies, including motion sensors, AI, reinterpretations of cinema history, live-generated 3D visuals, VR, analogue synthesizers, new interactive instruments, magnetic resonators, keyboards as video-game-style controllers, bio-sensors, interactions with live-video, and internet-based scores.

Zubin has performed at many international festivals and international venues including the BBC Proms, London Contemporary Music Festival, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (UK) Melbourne Festival (Australia), Festival Présences (France), Klang Festival (Denmark), Podium Festival (Germany), Resonator Festival (Sweden), November Music (Netherlands), CUBE, Graz (Austria), and Borealis Festival (Norway).

Zubin has collaborated with many of the world’s leading composers and premiered more than 130 works. Recent collaborations include those with Alexander Schubert on his internet-based WIKI-PIANO.NET, which has been performed in 23 cities, with Nicole Lizée on her Scorsese Etudes, the latest in her auteur focused Criterion Collection creating studies out of the sonic and visual materials of classic films, with Shiva Feshareki on an extended work combining the piano with turntables, ambisonic electronics and interactive lighting, and with Philip Venables on an upcoming concert-length work using pianos, keyboards, electronics and live video, exploring the life of artist David Wojnarowicz and his experience of the AIDS crisis in 1980s New York.

After graduating from the University of Sydney and the Royal Academy of Music, Zubin was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Nice and IRCAM (Paris) and a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at Royal Holloway, University of London, where he is now Lecturer in Musical Performance and Digital Arts. He is also the director of Cyborg Soloists, a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship-funded project exploring new music-technology collaborations between artists and industry.

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