Zubin Kanga
Biographic Data
| ID | 1172452 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zubin Kanga |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zubin |
| FAMILY NAME | Kanga |
| SIGNATURE | KANGA Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0725-2820 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Cyborg Hand
This article examines the collaborative genesis of a new work for solo performer co-composed by Neil Luck and the author, Whatever Weighs You Down (2022), with a focus on the use of MiMU sensor gloves, and the development of a work-specific gestural approach to this technology. This gestural approach was strongly influenced by a collaborator on the project, Deaf performance artist Chisato Minamimura. Minamimura’s expertise in BSL, dance, ‘sign mi…
The Performer as Posthuman Assemblage
The entanglement of digital technologies within our everyday lives cannot be overstated. They shape our embodied behaviours and socio-cultural interactions (Tahiroğlu and Magnusson 2021); garner a
In Conversation with Jennifer Walshe
In this interview, composer, performer and improviser Jennifer Walshe talks with Mark Dyer and Zubin Kanga about her work performing with machine learning algorithms and other intelligent machines. In contrast to the many articles and interviews that have largely focused on Walshe’s practice as a composer, this interview focuses on her practice as a performer integrating these technologies into her work, centring around ULTRACHUNK (2018) and IS I…
Newmusic #Soundart
All My Time
In March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic had spread internationally, resulting in governments shutting down concert halls, theatres, and other performance spaces. In this environment, the livestreamed performance flourished, with many musicians embracing the medium, performing to online audiences from their own homes via a variety of social media platforms. Whereas many major performing arts organisations created livestreams that attempted to emulate…
Performing Wiki-Piano.NET
This article explores strategies for interpreting Alexander Schubert's WIKI-PIANO.NET, a composition commissioned and performed by the author in an international tour in 2018 and 2020. Schubert's score is a website, all sections of which can be edited by the public, similar to a Wikipedia page. The author's strategies for interpreting the huge range of content added to the website-score draw upon Schubert's suggestions, the interdisciplinary rigo…
Through the Silver Screen
This article examines my collaboration with British composer, Adam de la Cour, on his work for piano, video and electronics, Transplant the Movie! (2016). I use auto-ethnographic techniques to examine our collaborative relationship as the work was conceived, created and prepared for performance. Transplant the Movie! (2016) takes as its inspiration the subgenre of early horror films that focus on pianists receiving hand transplants from the corps…
Flaws in the Body and How We Work with Them
This interview with Alexander Schubert, one of the most significant of the younger generation of German composers, examines his work as an innovator of new types of gesture-technology relationships. We begin by discussing his background, education and influences, and in particular his relationship to the peers discussed above. We then examine some specific questions about his use of video (both live and prerecorded) and the use of choreographed g…
Gesture-Technology Interactions in Contemporary Music
Although gesture has always been an essential component of music, the study of musical gesture, particularly in its literal interpretation as bodily gesture and movement, has only emerged as a sign
All My Time
In March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic had spread internationally, resulting in governments shutting down concert halls, theatres, and other performance spaces. In this environment, the livestreamed performance flourished, with many musicians embracing the medium, performing to online audiences from their own homes via a variety of social media platforms. Whereas many major performing arts organisations created livestreams that attempted to emulate…
Performing Wiki-Piano.NET
This article explores strategies for interpreting Alexander Schubert's WIKI-PIANO.NET, a composition commissioned and performed by the author in an international tour in 2018 and 2020. Schubert's score is a website, all sections of which can be edited by the public, similar to a Wikipedia page. The author's strategies for interpreting the huge range of content added to the website-score draw upon Schubert's suggestions, the interdisciplinary rigo…
Through the Silver Screen
This article examines my collaboration with British composer, Adam de la Cour, on his work for piano, video and electronics, Transplant the Movie! (2016). I use auto-ethnographic techniques to examine our collaborative relationship as the work was conceived, created and prepared for performance. Transplant the Movie! (2016) takes as its inspiration the subgenre of early horror films that focus on pianists receiving hand transplants from the corps…
Flaws in the Body and How We Work with Them
This interview with Alexander Schubert, one of the most significant of the younger generation of German composers, examines his work as an innovator of new types of gesture-technology relationships. We begin by discussing his background, education and influences, and in particular his relationship to the peers discussed above. We then examine some specific questions about his use of video (both live and prerecorded) and the use of choreographed g…
Gesture-Technology Interactions in Contemporary Music
Although gesture has always been an essential component of music, the study of musical gesture, particularly in its literal interpretation as bodily gesture and movement, has only emerged as a sign
Performing Wiki-Piano.NET
This article explores strategies for interpreting Alexander Schubert's WIKI-PIANO.NET, a composition commissioned and performed by the author in an international tour in 2018 and 2020. Schubert's score is a website, all sections of which can be edited by the public, similar to a Wikipedia page. The author's strategies for interpreting the huge range of content added to the website-score draw upon Schubert's suggestions, the interdisciplinary rigo…
Newmusic #Soundart
All My Time
In March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic had spread internationally, resulting in governments shutting down concert halls, theatres, and other performance spaces. In this environment, the livestreamed performance flourished, with many musicians embracing the medium, performing to online audiences from their own homes via a variety of social media platforms. Whereas many major performing arts organisations created livestreams that attempted to emulate…
The Cyborg Hand
This article examines the collaborative genesis of a new work for solo performer co-composed by Neil Luck and the author, Whatever Weighs You Down (2022), with a focus on the use of MiMU sensor gloves, and the development of a work-specific gestural approach to this technology. This gestural approach was strongly influenced by a collaborator on the project, Deaf performance artist Chisato Minamimura. Minamimura’s expertise in BSL, dance, ‘sign mi…
The Performer as Posthuman Assemblage
The entanglement of digital technologies within our everyday lives cannot be overstated. They shape our embodied behaviours and socio-cultural interactions (Tahiroğlu and Magnusson 2021); garner a
In Conversation with Jennifer Walshe
In this interview, composer, performer and improviser Jennifer Walshe talks with Mark Dyer and Zubin Kanga about her work performing with machine learning algorithms and other intelligent machines. In contrast to the many articles and interviews that have largely focused on Walshe’s practice as a composer, this interview focuses on her practice as a performer integrating these technologies into her work, centring around ULTRACHUNK (2018) and IS I…
Art (9 works) · Visual arts (9 works) · Aesthetics (7 works) · Music Technology and Sound Studies (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Performing arts (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Musical (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Art history (3 works)