WIKI.PIANO.NET – premiere performance by Zubin Kanga : Premiere performance at Podium Festival, Esslingen, Germany
- Submitting institution
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Royal Holloway and Bedford New College
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 34814357
- Type
- I - Performance
- Venue(s)
- Podium Festival, Esslingen
- Open access status
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- Month of first performance
- April
- Year of first performance
- 2018
- URL
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https://figshare.com/s/aeead627edaec5f9fa3a
- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- WIKI-PIANO.NET is an experiment in distributed creativity, co-conceived by Alexander Schubert and Zubin Kanga. Its web-based score, editable by any member of the public, has been realised in 21 performances across 7 countries by Kanga since 2018. Kanga’s role in the project investigates what strategies are required to convert a constantly changing collection of crowd-sourced content into a coherent performance, and how these realisations can expand the field of interdisciplinary music (also called ‘music in the expanded field’ (Marko Ciciliani, 2016)).
The project builds on experiments in collaborative composition and audience interaction including Adrian Piper’s ‘Funk Lessons’ (1980), Robert Ashley’s ‘Public Opinion Descends upon the Demonstrators’ (1961) and the recent experiments with mobile technologies, ‘Tweet Dreams’ (2011) and ‘Open Symphony’ (2016). WIKI-PIANO.NET is unique in its use of a web-based score where all content is editable, allowing an unprecedented number of participants and interactions (to date 26,059 edits by 879 unique users). Kanga’s performance strategies expand those required for indeterminate notation (ranging from John Cage’s graphic notation to Cat Hope’s animated scores) and for live improvisation to films. By combining the piano with electronics, speech and acting, Kanga has developed specialised methods for interdisciplinary realisations of internet-sourced multimedia content.
Kanga’s work on WIKI-PIANO.NET has delivered new insights into the performance practice of interdisciplinary music, by developing such techniques as interdisciplinary virtuosity, competitive comedy, and performed intertextuality. The project also offers new insights into internet-based musical cultures, including the use of musical memes and meta-composition.
The portfolio includes the output to be assessed: the premiere and four subsequent performances, documented on video. Additional contextual information consists of: Kanga’s articles in ‘Tempo’ and ‘Leonardo’, discussing the research process and its insights; an appendix to the ‘Leonardo’ article, with score excerpts and explanations, plus photographic documentation; and a list of public concerts.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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