Zubin Kanga
In Answer Machine Tape, 1987 Philip Venables works in an original style with messages on an answering machine and a ‘cyborg’ piano that uses sensors to double as a typewriter. His piece gives a painful glimpse into the life of the American artist David Wojnarowicz. The tape in question contains answerphone messages recorded in the days preceding the death of his ex-partner, photographer Peter Hujar, from Hujar himself, other artists, friends and partners. Indirectly they provide us with a heartrending testimony from inside the New York art scene in the midst of the AIDS epidemic.
As part of Sounds Now
Tips
SPECTRA, Filip Rathé, Thomas Blondelle, Lise Bruyneel
Performer
Zubin Kanga
Australian-born and London-based pianist, composer, musicologist and technologist Zubin Kanga is a fearless advocate of the new and unknown. For over a decade, he has been at the forefront of curating and creating interdisciplinary musical programmes which seek to explore and redefine what it means to be a performer through interactions with new technologies.
Composer
Philip Venables
British composer Philip Venables has been described as a “composer of ferocious dramatic instincts” and “an arrestingly original musical personality” by Alex Ross in The New Yorker and as “one of the finest composers around” by the Guardian. His output covers opera, music theatre, text-based concert works, sound installation, multimedia and chamber music, with a strong emphasis on storytelling.
Australian-born and London-based pianist, composer, musicologist and technologist Zubin Kanga is a fearless advocate of the new and unknown.
Tickets
€ 16