Pianist, composer and technologist, Zubin Kanga, performs the world premiere of Alexander Schubert’s Steady State. Using cutting-edge brain sensors to control video, light and sound, as well as body and motion sensors, the work is staged as a strange laboratory experiment in which the brain becomes a component in an audio-visual feedback loop. This is the world premiere of this groundbreaking work.

The concert also features Zubin Kanga’s own Steel on Bone, using MiMU gloves to shape the sounds from inside the piano through gestures in the air. And the concert concludes with Laura Bowler’s SHOW(ti)ME, which explores the contrast between musicians’ public personas (on stage and social media) and their private anxieties. It draws back the mask of performance through an explosive magnification of the minutiae of piano practice, combining the piano with a range of technologies including live video and audio (including talking emoji) and MiMU sensor gloves.