Composer & Creative Director
ZAKIYA LEEMING – Composer & Creative Director
Experimental composer creating work at the intersection of science, medicine and human experience.
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Zakiya Leeming is a UK-based composer creating music for concerts, opera, digital media and emerging technologies. Shaped by the human stories behind science, medicine, and new tools, Leeming's work and frequently develops through long-term collaboration with scientists, clinicians, directors, writers, patients and performers.
Engaged in broadening connections across disciplines and publics, Leeming has devised and directed interdisciplinary projects bringing together health data researchers, immunologists, secondary-school students, astrophysicists, and patient groups across the U.K. and her work has been performed internationally.
Explore projects ranging from health data, immunology and astrophysics to AI.
Excerpts
Samples from recent projects
​It's the Algorithm
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What impact will emerging technologies such as AI have on the next generation? For small ensemble & AGR, a new machine listening tool More
Baths (Excerpt from Dangerous Matter)​
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A moment that changes the course of her life – Lady Mary realises that of 200 women present, she alone bears the marks of the Smallpox. More
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Eagle in the Ropes
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Inspired by the physicality and iconography of circus arts. Tiny firings of muscles in opposite directions to keep balance, terrifying leaps and spins, and the idiomatic sounds of rolls, cracks and whistles. More
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