International Composition Institute of Thailand (ICIT) is an intensive and unique experience for composers around the world. The ICIT will be held on December 15th - 21st, 2025 with the partnership of Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC). The selected works of participants will be premiered as part of the prestigious IntAct Festival during December 19th - 21st, 2025. In this edition, we are focusing on sonic creativities, materials in interdisciplinary concepts and techniques in music technology.

Dayton Kinney’s Not Quite Human explores the blurred boundaries between human and machine, voice and imitation, presence and absence. Fragments of text such as “Do you have a voice?” and “I don’t have one” echo through shifting layers of flute beatboxing, extended woodwind techniques, electronic distortions, and repetitious textures among the ensemble. Together, the instrumental and electronic timbres splice, filter, and fracture the delineation between organic breath and mechanical reproduction.

The work resists a single identity by moving between moments of fragility and force in its search for expression within technological mediation. At its core, this is a dialogue about what it means to be human in an age when voices can be generated, copied, or silenced when authenticity can feel precarious. The ensemble becomes a hybrid body that feels deeply human and eerily artificial, while it poses the question of whether Not Quite Human is a transformative loss of humanity or simply something new in its connections.