Category: Music & Media
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Part III. AI & Digital Innovations for Inter-art Chamber Music Practices
One-day symposium centred around AI, digital innovation, and the fusion of art forms in performance practices. We drove into a world where artistic mediums transcend boundaries, combining live music-making with dynamic elements such as animated paintings, electronic literature, moving images, and more.
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Part II. Digital transformations: a dynamic encounter between music, art and AI in Edinburgh
Tchaikovsky’s chamber music was interwoven with AI-animated paintings, synesthetic visuals, and an interactive narrative that places the audience at centre stage. This fusion created a dynamic interplay between music, words, moving images, digital scenography, electronic literature, and gamification elements, thereby opening up new avenues for exploring the intersections between artistic media.
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Part I. Digital Transformations: A dynamic encounter between music, art and AI in Sweden
This event transformed the classical concert experience into an artistic exploration of digital technology and creativity across media boundaries. Tchaikovsky’s Piano Trio in A-minor was performed by a chamber music trio from the UK, featuring Alexandra Huang-Kokina on piano, Rebekah Lesan on cello and Paul Docherty on violin.
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Flaming June Chamber Music Concert (2022)
Guest Performance invited by BirdsNest Art Gallery, Edinburgh. BirdsNest Review, issue 2: ‘This recital, featuring the musical talents of Alexandra Huang-Kokina, Paul Docherty, and Rebekah Lesan, provided a welcome means of togetherness, a pause in the hurry and bustle of daily life. For a few enchanting hours, we were given the space to reflect and…
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Ode to Autumn: Chopin in Scotland in 1848 (2020)
A film-based project written, produced, and directed by myself. This film retells the story of Frédéric Chopin’s visit to Scotland in autumn 1848, seen in the mind’s eye of Jane Stirling – Chopin’s Scottish aristocratic lady pupil. It delves deep into the esteemed composer’s creative endeavours during this pivotal juncture preceding his death in Paris,…
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‘Piano Recital: Bach, Chopin, and Ginastera’ (2020)
A melodic journey through time, the pianist takes you on a voyage from the baroque elegance of Bach, enchanting strains of Chopin, and impassioned rhythm of Ginastera. – J.S. Bach: Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue in D minor, BWV 903– F. Chopin: Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58, Movement 1– A. Ginastera: Danzas…
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St Cecilia’s Concert Hall Special Performance (2018-19)
A series of piano recitals held in Edinburgh’s St Cecilia’s Hall & Music Museum, Scotland’s oldest purpose-built concert venue. Invited as a guest performer on St Cecilia’s Day & World Music Day.
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Echoes Across Oceans: Melodies of Distant Piano (2017)
Collaborative piano concert presenting Chopin’s Piano Sonata No. 3 & piano adaptations of opera arias.
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Taipei Art Fringe Performance (2016)
‘Music Played Outdoors’, a chamber concert built around Tchaikovsky’s Piano Trio and interwoven with a narrative about the life of a great artist.
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Spiritual Time Piano Recital (2015)
An ambitious two-hour solo performance, delving into the intricate world of Beethoven’s late pianism through his final Piano Sonatas (Opp. 109 &110) and exploring Chopin’s diverse artistry with three of his multi-variant Polonaises (Opp. 44, 53, 61).
Dr Alexandra Huang-Kokina 