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Podcast: The Music Show
Episode: In rehearsal with Zubin Kanga's cyborg piano, and at the art gallery with Julius Eastman's Femenine
Description: The Music Show is live at Canberra International Music Festival on 3 May - come join our audience!Zubin Kanga is known as the ‘cyborg pianist’, because throughout his career he’s been using technology to expand the idea of what the piano is and what it can do. As part of his major research project, Cyborg Soloists, he has commissioned dozens of experimental works, including one by composer Tristan Coelho. Andy drops in on them both at rehearsal for Ensemble Offspring’s Lumen Machine, where they demonstrate the honeycomb-like Lumatone keyboard and a small but powerful motion-sensor ring tha...