Wiki-piano

Site-specific music festival Muzika Erdvėje’26

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WIKI-PIANO

2026.09.13 | SUNDAY | Sapieha Palace

16:30 tour

17:00 concert

Pianist, composer, and technology researcher Zubin Kanga is a leading international figure exploring how artificial intelligence, motion sensors, and hybrid instruments expand the performer's identity. Having premiered over 170 works at major music festivals (BBC Proms, Gaudeamus Festival, Klang Festival, and many others), the artist presents the program WIKI-PIANO at the festival. Here, technology acts not as an external tool, but as a living, constantly changing extension of our reality, reacting to the integrally shifting forms of real and virtual worlds.

The program features three compositions: the iconic composition Wiki-Piano.Net by Alexander Schubert (GER) – an interactive work for piano and the internet community, with a score that constantly changes based on the wiki webpage principle*. Ben Nobuto's (UK) audiovisual composition "The Art of Sinking" explores changes in the human subconscious under conditions of virtuality. The program is conceptually complemented by the premiere of Lukas Butkus' (LT) work "Anatomy of Melancholy" for piano and video, in which the historical theme of melancholy is mediated through internet artifacts and post-ironic digital fragmentation.

Organized by: cultural agency "Miške"

Festival artistic directors: Marta Finkelštein x Agnė Matulevičiūtė

Festival producer: Liucina Mackialo

Designer: Normatonis

Technical director: Dovydas Kiela

Funded by: Lithuanian Council for Culture, Kaunas City Municipality

Strategic partner: Lithuanian Composers' Union

Venue partners: Rupert, Vilnius Municipality, Kaunas IN, Leticija, Sapieha Palace, Medūza, Energy and Technology Museum, LNDM Radvila Palace

Other partners: Open House, LRT

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