Zubin Kanga
Satanic Panic
Origins Unwrapped
| Mathis Saunier | NOXIA_VOLIUM (world premiere) |
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| Jasmin Kent Rodgman | ORGANS (UK premiere) |
| Dai Fujikura | Nagisa (World premiere) |
| Nicole Lizée | Sataniq Paniq // Satanipanicon (world premiere) |
| Zubin Kanga | piano, keyboards, synthesisers, interactive technologies, electronics and video |
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Pianist composer and technologist Zubin Kanga performs new works at the cutting edge of new music technologies, featuring the world premiere of ‘Sataniq Paniq // Satanipanicon’ by Canadian composer Nicole Lizée, which explores the 1980s moral panic around role-playing games, horror films and heavy metal, alongside new works by Jasmin Kent Rodgman, Dai Fujikura and Mathis Saunier.
This concert features the world premiere of Nicole Lizée’s Sataniq Paniq // Satanipanicon, which explores the 1980s North American ‘satanic panic’ and the perception of satanic influences and secret messages in heavy metal, horror films, and board and role-playing games (including Dungeons and Dragons). Drawing on decades of experience with glitching and looping of films, Lizée has created a series of short documentary and filmic scenes that recreate and parody the media storm of the era. These films extend beyond the screen, into the performance and audience, centring this set of virtuosic studies for piano, interactive technologies, custom props and multimedia.
Jasmin Kent Rodgman’s ORGANS asks us what it takes to maintain empathy in a digital age where conflict and violence are so readily exposed and heavily normalised, in a work intertwining piano and synthesiser with live-controlled visuals.
Dai Fujikura’s Nagisa (Water’s Edge) merges the soundworld of his colourful orchestration and the influence of synth-based jazz and electro-pop, conjuring waves of sound across the piano and synthesiser, in a flowing duet between the hands.
And Mathis Saunier’s NOXIA_VOLIUM conjures a hyper-real landscape exploring language, science, and synthetic perception in a vibrant sci-fi play of artificial voices, flashing lights and rippling keyboards.
All the works in this programme were commissioned by Zubin Kanga as part of Cyborg Soloists, supported by a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship and Royal Holloway, University of London.
This event will last approximately 75 minutes, with no interval.
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Rotunda Bar & Restaurant
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Green & Fortune Café
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Reviews:
‘the consistent thread is Kanga’s fearless touch, which reliably manages to locate the emotive wellspring hidden within the machines.’ Leah Kardos, The Wire
‘Groundbreaking or cutting-edge … on this debut NMC solo disc by Australian pianist and composer Zubin Kanga, those adjectives are warranted’ Liam Cagney, Gramophone
‘the grimy, thorax-quaking bass, looped vocal melodies and rhythmic prestidigitation of Zubin Kanga’s virtuosic performance’ Flora Wilson, The Guardian
‘a rewarding experience, rich in possibility, infused with curiosity and playfulness, and not afraid to explore conceptual and expressive horizons well beyond the boundaries of a traditional piano recital’ Ben Wilkie, Limelight Magazine
Zubin Kanga
Zubin Kanga is a pianist, composer, and technologist. For over a decade, he has been at the forefront of creating, co-creating and performing interdisciplinary works that explore and redefine what it means to be a musician through interactions with new technologies.
Since 2021, he has been the Director and Research Lead of Cyborg Soloists, a 7-year music-technology research project supported by a UK Research and Innovation Future Leaders Fellowship and based at Royal Holloway, University of London, where he is Associate Professor in Musical Performance and Digital Arts. Cyborg Soloists is unlocking new possibilities in composition and performance through interactions with AI, interactive visuals, motion and biosensors, and new hybrid instruments.
Zubin has premiered more than 170 works and performed at many international festivals including the New Music Biennial, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Aldeburgh Festival (UK) Melbourne Festival (Australia), Paris Autumn Festival (France), Time of Music Festival (Finland), Music Current (Ireland), Klang Festival (Denmark), Hamburg International Music Festival (Germany), Gaudeamus Festival (Netherlands), Tongyeong International Music Festival (South Korea), Transit Festival (Belgium) and Modulus Festival (Canada).
In the last two years, he has premiered 8 new concerti with ensembles including BCMG, Explore Ensemble, Ensemble Offspring, Manchester Collective and the BBC Philharmonic.