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we are environments for each other
electric violin, piano and electromagnetic resonator

Composed by Scott McLaughlin
Performed by Mira Benjamin (electric violin) and Zubin Kanga (piano and electromagnetic resonator)

we are environments for each other (2024) was developed with the support of Cyborg Soloists, funded by a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship and Royal Holloway, University of London.

Recorded live at City St George’s, University of London
23 May 2025

Videography by Broaden Films
Audio Recording by Nicholas Moroz

Programme Note:
A drone rises from an unseen source; bodies and materiality become enmeshed through sound. What paths and possibilities emerge for two musicians who become entangled with one another through a single sounding instrument? Zubin Kanga uses an electromagnetic resonator to explore the harmonics of the piano strings, creating feedback drones. Mira Benjamin's electric violin is inserted into this feedback, impersonating the piano string and replacing its resonances with her own, trying to find points of metastability, hybrid harmonies where piano and violin strings mutually reinforce. Both players hold each other in a balance of resonances, curating serendipity, inhabiting a performance ecosystem.

This title track from McLaughlin, Benjamin & Kanga's 2024 album invites the audience into an immersive listening experience —sometimes gentle, sometimes overwhelming, always unfolding.

www.zubinkanga.com
www.cyborgsoloists.com