A futuristic soundtrack in want of an imaginary Ridley Scott film illuminated by moments of euphoria, Zubin Kanga’s Machine Dreams is an immediately disconcerting listen, but one that rewards repeated hearings.

The Sydney-born, London-based pianist and composer brings his interest in electronic music to the fore in a compendium of new pieces, inspired by classic science-fiction, by 10 composers blending “cutting-edge [motion] sensors, new digital instruments and AI-generated sounds”, all filtered through analogue synthesizers and keyboard samplers.

Commissioned as part of Cyborg Soloists, a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship research project, the result is a veritable kaleidoscope of hallucinogen-tinged fantasias; Pink Floyd out of Aphex Twin via Morton Feldman.

In truth what we have here is not a definitive statement. Instead, it’s a snapshot of a musical moment in accelerated flux driven by the new, still expanding horizons of artificial intelligence in which tradition is breathlessly attempting to keep pace with technology. Witness Alex Paton’s opening Car-Pig, a manically animated palette...