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Ensemble Offspring

Lumen Machine

Where
The Neilson
The Neilson
ACO Pier 2/3, 13 Hickson Road, Dawes Point
When

Saturday 12 April from 7:30pm to 9pm

Cost

Adult: $79Concession: $39

Lumen Machine will take you to the bleeding edge of musical technology. In a thrilling collaboration with ‘cyborg pianist’ and Ensemble Offspring alumnus Zubin Kanga, four new chamber concertos four new concertos featuring Zubin will bring everything we find exciting about music – its drama, its personality, its virtuosity – into a futuristic sound world.

What’s in store? Wielding special powers through a motion-sensor ring, the protagonist in Hot Take – initially a force for good – turns ‘increasingly villainous’.

Dream Garden employs the game-changing Lumatone keyboard and Amanda Cole’s own 48-note scale (Cube Tuning) in a mesmerising contemporary chaconne.

Renowned German-Austrian composer Brigitta Muntendorf uses light-control sensors to transform the pianist into an alien-like soloist, a ‘monstrous techno-social hallucination’.

Meanwhile, our soloist Zubin Kanga turns to the rhythmic arpeggiations of an old-school analogue synthesizer to spin a vibrant, whirling dance in From the Machine.

And we’ll leave you smiling with an original arrangement of Anna Meredith’s Bumps Per Minute, an exhilarating sound experience that has been likened to ‘drinking several very strong cups of coffee in fast succession’.

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