WIKI-PIANO | Muzika Erdvėje x Zubin Kanga x Alexander Schubert x Ben Nobuto x Lukas Butkus

WIKI-PIANO

2026.09.13 | SUNDAY | Sapieha Palace

16:30 guided 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 performed the world premieres of over 170 works at major music festivals (including the BBC Proms, Gaudeamus Festival, Klang Festival, and many others), the artist presents his program, WIKI-PIANO, at the festival. Here, technology functions not as an external tool, but as a living, constantly evolving extension of our reality, reacting to the integrally shifting forms of real and virtual worlds.

The program features three compositions. The iconic Wiki-Piano.Net by Alexander Schubert (GER) is an interactive piece for piano and the internet community, with a constantly evolving score that changes through a wiki-style webpage format*. Ben Nobuto’s (UK) audiovisual composition, The Art of Sinking, explores the shifts in human subconsciousness within the context of virtuality. The program is conceptually expanded by premiere of Lukas Butkus’s (LT) – Anatomy of Melancholy, for piano and video, which mediates the historical theme of melancholy through internet artifacts and post-ironic digital fragmentation.

Organized by: Culture Agency “Miške”

Festival Artistic Directors: Marta Finkelštein x Agnė Matulevičiūtė

Festival Producer: Liucina Mackialo

Designer: Normatonis

Technical Director: Dovydas Kiela

Communication specialist: Viktorija Aprimaitė

Funded by: Lithuanian Council for Culture, Kaunas City Municipality

Strategic Partner: Lithuanian Composers’ Union

Venue Partners: Rupert, Vilnius Municipality, Kaunas IN, Leticija, GG Arena, Sapieha Palace, Medūza, Museum of Energy and Technology, LNDM Radvila Palace

Other Partners: Open House, LRT Klasika