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Cutting-edge and experimental new music in live performance, plus interviews and features.

The best and latest in cutting-edge and experimental new music. Kate Molleson and Tom Service present exclusive recordings, new releases, composer interviews and features.

The best and latest in cutting-edge and experimental new music. Kate Molleson and Tom Service present exclusive recordings, new releases, composer interviews and features from around the UK, Europe and across the world.

New Music Show: Zubin Kanga - specially recorded

Zubin Kanga - specially recorded

BBC Radio 3 - New Music Show, Zubin Kanga - specially recorded

The latest sounds in the contemporary music scene presented by Kate Molleson.

The latest in new music performance with Kate Molleson, featuring specially recorded tracks from the pianist-composer and multimedia artist Zubin Kanga.

Kate Molleson presents the latest sounds from the world of contemporary music including three new tracks specially recorded recently by Zubin Kanga - whose mission it is to expand the possibilities of the piano through interactive multimedia. In Ballast the violinist/instrument builder/composer Jon Rose draws on decades of experience improvising with interactive motion sensors to create a wild exploration of pianistic hyper-virtuosity, full of thrilling counterpoint between the real instrument and many layers of virtual pianos controlled by a 3D hand sensor. Julian Day's Dark Twin pits the pianist against a manipulated version of his playing that slides in pitch and distorts in colour, starting as an indistinguishable electronic twin and growing into a grotesque doppelgänger. And Zubin's own Lines of Flight is about hearing Bach in the revving of aircraft engines on the tarmac. Combining a piano and synthesizer in clouds of live electronics, the final movement of Bach's St Matthew Passion is atomized and mechanized, transformed and reformed. And yet Bach's majestic, mournful melody and restless cadences are always present.
Also on the show, Maya Dunietz's Mammoths, a weird and wonderful sound installation for five pianos and the UK premiere of Heinz Holliger's Ad marginem inspired by a painting by Paul Klee. Plus music for flute, electronics and found objects recorded in the underground spaces of Basel by Clara de Asis and Mara Winter.

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