Event
DARK TWIN : music of mystery and multiplicity for piano and multimedia
- Date: Friday, 22 May 2015, 8pm
- Venue: Art Gallery of Western Australia — Perth Cultural Centre, Perth, WA
- Series: This event is part of the The 12th Totally Huge New Music Festival (THNMF) series
- Tickets: Adults: $30 | Concession: $25 — Tickets can be purchased online
Event Details
Internationally-acclaimed piano virtuoso, Zubin Kanga, returns to Australia for a national tour, performing DARK TWIN: music of mystery and multiplicity for piano and multimedia. Electronics, computer interaction and film combine to create multiple personalities, malevolent doppelgängers and menacing landscapes around the solo pianist. DARK TWIN features new works by three leading Australian composers – Julian Day, Daniel Blinkhorn and Cat Hope – each with vastly different styles and technological approaches: from lo-fi tools such as portable radios, to complex video and surround sound interacting with the pianist.
The program also features works by major composers from Belgium, the Netherlands, Australia and the USA, each working at the cutting edge of innovation in the interaction between technology and live musicians. Whether duetting with an artificially intelligent system, playing through an avatar, creating massive walls of warped piano sounds or grooving within an invisible piano ensemble, the works explode any preconceptions of what is possible in a ‘solo’ piano recital.
Performers: Zubin Kanga, piano Benjamin Carey, electronics
Featured non-Australian music: Stefan Prins – Piano Hero (Australian premiere), Michel van der Aa – Transit (Australian premiere), Steve Reich arr Vincent – Piano Counterpoint
Further information for this event is available online at the event's website or by phone on (08) 9228 3711
Featured Australian Works
Dark twin (piano with live electronics) by Julian Day — performed by Benjamin Carey and Zubin Kanga | |
_derivations (piano with live electronics) by Benjamin Carey — performed by Zubin Kanga and Benjamin Carey | |
frostbYte: Chalk Outline (piano with live electronics) by Daniel Blinkhorn — performed by Benjamin Carey and Zubin Kanga | |
| The Fourth Estate : for grand piano, 2 ebows, 2 a.m radios (2014) by Cat Hope — performed by Benjamin Carey and Zubin Kanga |
Derivations by Benjamin Carey |
Featured artists
- Performer Zubin Kanga
- Performer Benjamin Carey
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