Cyborg Soloists
@cyborgsoloists.bsky.social
Cyborg Soloists is a music technology research project led by Dr Zubin Kanga, based at Royal Holloway, University of London.
Thanks to everyone who came to Zubin Kanga's performance at Sound Festival in Aberdeen on Friday night. Were you there? Help bring more cutting-edge works to life by sharing your thoughts in our quick survey here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
November 3, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Thanks to everyone who came to Zubin Kanga's performance at Sound Festival in Aberdeen on Friday night. Were you there? Help bring more cutting-edge works to life by sharing your thoughts in our quick survey here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Tomorrow 6pm at sound festival in Aberdeen: Zubin Kanga premieres 4 new #cyborgsoloists works by @laraagar.bsky.social, Rylan Gleave, Ben Nobuto & Neil Luck (w. accordionist Andreas Borregaard) using Genki Wave Ring, AI motion capture, ROLI Seaboard... Tickets: sound-scotland.co.uk/event/zubin-...
October 30, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Tomorrow 6pm at sound festival in Aberdeen: Zubin Kanga premieres 4 new #cyborgsoloists works by @laraagar.bsky.social, Rylan Gleave, Ben Nobuto & Neil Luck (w. accordionist Andreas Borregaard) using Genki Wave Ring, AI motion capture, ROLI Seaboard... Tickets: sound-scotland.co.uk/event/zubin-...
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Heading up to Aberdeen tomorrow for the premiere of my new work for Zubin Kanga
ON THE WAY OUT
For piano, electronics and video ,
Including Genki ring, excerpt here
Great programme, hugely looking forward to this! link via my bio
@soundscotland.bsky.social
@cyborgsoloists.bsky.social
ON THE WAY OUT
For piano, electronics and video ,
Including Genki ring, excerpt here
Great programme, hugely looking forward to this! link via my bio
@soundscotland.bsky.social
@cyborgsoloists.bsky.social
October 29, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Heading up to Aberdeen tomorrow for the premiere of my new work for Zubin Kanga
ON THE WAY OUT
For piano, electronics and video ,
Including Genki ring, excerpt here
Great programme, hugely looking forward to this! link via my bio
@soundscotland.bsky.social
@cyborgsoloists.bsky.social
ON THE WAY OUT
For piano, electronics and video ,
Including Genki ring, excerpt here
Great programme, hugely looking forward to this! link via my bio
@soundscotland.bsky.social
@cyborgsoloists.bsky.social
Reposted by Cyborg Soloists
Delighted to work w @enthusiasticeunuch.bsky.social bringing Plus Minus Ensble to Dublin in October. +- perform my @cyborgsoloists.bsky.social Where the Paths End + work by Jessie Marino & Bernhard Lang. The amazing Ultan O Brien will guest in an incredible night of music
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Plus Minus Ensemble + Ultan O'Brien
Enthusiastic Eunuch, In Association With The Arts Council Presents Plus Minus Ensemble performing J...
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July 4, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Delighted to work w @enthusiasticeunuch.bsky.social bringing Plus Minus Ensble to Dublin in October. +- perform my @cyborgsoloists.bsky.social Where the Paths End + work by Jessie Marino & Bernhard Lang. The amazing Ultan O Brien will guest in an incredible night of music
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Fully funded PhD in the lab, looking at detecting/classifying gestures and tactile interactions with wearable technology. Come and join the lab.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNL898/f...
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Funded PhD Studentship in AI for Wearable Music Interfaces at UWE, Bristol
Explore a Funded PhD Studentship in AI for Wearable Music Interfaces. Apply today and discover more PhD opportunities at jobs.ac.uk.
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June 18, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Fully funded PhD in the lab, looking at detecting/classifying gestures and tactile interactions with wearable technology. Come and join the lab.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNL898/f...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNL898/f...
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"Sounds that I've never heard a piano make... almost electronic, yet... produced acoustically" Hear Scott McLaughlin's mesmerising work live at City St George's next week (23 May 2025, link below) performed by Zubin Kanga @cyborgsoloists.bsky.social & Mira Benjamin. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxvC...
Trailer - 'we are environments for each other [trio]' (Scott McLaughlin)
YouTube video by Scott McLaughlin
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May 13, 2025 at 2:34 PM
"Sounds that I've never heard a piano make... almost electronic, yet... produced acoustically" Hear Scott McLaughlin's mesmerising work live at City St George's next week (23 May 2025, link below) performed by Zubin Kanga @cyborgsoloists.bsky.social & Mira Benjamin. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxvC...
How about a little geolocated music this weekend? Read @seanlclancy.bsky.social's blog post about 'Where the Paths End', then grab your phone & head out (in London, Birmingham or Edinburgh) to experience the piece's sound walks. Post & sound walk info: www.cyborgsoloists.com/news-large/w...
April 17, 2025 at 1:29 PM
How about a little geolocated music this weekend? Read @seanlclancy.bsky.social's blog post about 'Where the Paths End', then grab your phone & head out (in London, Birmingham or Edinburgh) to experience the piece's sound walks. Post & sound walk info: www.cyborgsoloists.com/news-large/w...
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May 13 - talking/performing at Cafe Oto on my new concerto TECHNO-UTOPIA for piano, synths and embedded AI instruments, alongside Zubin Kanga @cyborgsoloists.bsky.social and @jenniferwalshe.bsky.social. Come along!
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Cafe OTO → AI IS… ALL IN THE MIND OF JENNIFER WALSHE, Tuesday 13 May 2025, 7.30pm
In the second of three events hosted by The Wire magazine that look at the impact of AI on music making, composer Jennifer Walshe gives a talk and performance based on her new manifesto 13 Ways Of Loo...
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April 15, 2025 at 8:49 AM
May 13 - talking/performing at Cafe Oto on my new concerto TECHNO-UTOPIA for piano, synths and embedded AI instruments, alongside Zubin Kanga @cyborgsoloists.bsky.social and @jenniferwalshe.bsky.social. Come along!
www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/the-w...
www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/the-w...
Thanks to everyone who came to Zubin Kanga & Ensemble Offspring's performances of new #cyborgsoloists works by Brigitta Muntendorf, Amanda Cole, Tristan Coelho & Zubin Kanga on the weekend. There's a lovely 5-star review in Limelight - read it here: limelight-arts.com.au/reviews/lume...
Lumen Machine (Ensemble Offspring)
Read the Limelight review.
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April 14, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Thanks to everyone who came to Zubin Kanga & Ensemble Offspring's performances of new #cyborgsoloists works by Brigitta Muntendorf, Amanda Cole, Tristan Coelho & Zubin Kanga on the weekend. There's a lovely 5-star review in Limelight - read it here: limelight-arts.com.au/reviews/lume...
We're in Australia this weekend! Zubin Kanga is performing 4 world premiere #cyborgsoloists works by Brigitta Muntendorf, Amanda Cole, Tristan Coelho & himself with the great Ensemble Offspring. Saturday in Sydney, Sunday in Newcastle. Details & tickets: www.ensembleoffspring.com/event/lumen-...
April 11, 2025 at 10:25 PM
We're in Australia this weekend! Zubin Kanga is performing 4 world premiere #cyborgsoloists works by Brigitta Muntendorf, Amanda Cole, Tristan Coelho & himself with the great Ensemble Offspring. Saturday in Sydney, Sunday in Newcastle. Details & tickets: www.ensembleoffspring.com/event/lumen-...
Tonight in Egham: Zubin Kanga & Jonathan Packham: Ghost in the Machine, a lecture-recital incl. performances of new works by Rylan Gleave & Jonathan Packham, + @nwandoebizie.bsky.social's I Will Fix Myself (Just Circles). £5/Free for RHUL students/staff & U16s. tinyurl.com/ghost-in-the...
February 20, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Tonight in Egham: Zubin Kanga & Jonathan Packham: Ghost in the Machine, a lecture-recital incl. performances of new works by Rylan Gleave & Jonathan Packham, + @nwandoebizie.bsky.social's I Will Fix Myself (Just Circles). £5/Free for RHUL students/staff & U16s. tinyurl.com/ghost-in-the...
Yesterday was all about brain-controlled music. Today is all #keyboards! Come out in the #Huddersfield snow at 1pm today to hear Zubin Kanga playing music by Alex Ho, Claudia Molitor & Alex Paxton at St Paul’s Hall & you’ll be wearing a grin like this chap too. #hcmf hcmf.co.uk/programme/zu...
November 19, 2024 at 10:11 AM
Yesterday was all about brain-controlled music. Today is all #keyboards! Come out in the #Huddersfield snow at 1pm today to hear Zubin Kanga playing music by Alex Ho, Claudia Molitor & Alex Paxton at St Paul’s Hall & you’ll be wearing a grin like this chap too. #hcmf hcmf.co.uk/programme/zu...
Yes, it’s bleak and snowing outside, but inside there’s mulled wine and Zubin Kanga performing an utterly unique piece by Alexander Schubert using brain control via an EEG cap. 10pm tonight, Bates Mill Blending Shed, Huddersfield. Free!!! hcmf.co.uk/programme/st...
November 18, 2024 at 8:07 PM
Yes, it’s bleak and snowing outside, but inside there’s mulled wine and Zubin Kanga performing an utterly unique piece by Alexander Schubert using brain control via an EEG cap. 10pm tonight, Bates Mill Blending Shed, Huddersfield. Free!!! hcmf.co.uk/programme/st...
Laurence Osborn's new concerto, Schiller's Piano, uses piano & sounds of piano construction in a response to fascism's empty attempts to recreate the past. Premiere by Zubin Kanga and Manchester Collective TONIGHT in Manchester. More info and bookings here: manchestercollective.co.uk/fever
Fever Dreams — Manchester Collective
October 2024
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October 10, 2024 at 12:52 PM
Laurence Osborn's new concerto, Schiller's Piano, uses piano & sounds of piano construction in a response to fascism's empty attempts to recreate the past. Premiere by Zubin Kanga and Manchester Collective TONIGHT in Manchester. More info and bookings here: manchestercollective.co.uk/fever
It's been a while since we've published a new blog post, but we've just released the last post in Mark Dyer's series on his machine learning project with EXAUDI Vocal Ensemble, Scribe. Find the post and videos of EXAUDI's performances here: www.cyborgsoloists.com/scribe
Scribe — CYBORG SOLOISTS
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September 24, 2024 at 3:05 PM
It's been a while since we've published a new blog post, but we've just released the last post in Mark Dyer's series on his machine learning project with EXAUDI Vocal Ensemble, Scribe. Find the post and videos of EXAUDI's performances here: www.cyborgsoloists.com/scribe
At Gaudeamus this weekend? Zubin Kanga is performing works by Alex Paxton, Laura Bowler & himself plus the world premiere of Massimiliano Vizzini's Fantasie Im(prompt)u on Sunday, 8pm. Info & tickets at gaudeamus.nl/en/events/08...
September 4, 2024 at 6:00 PM
At Gaudeamus this weekend? Zubin Kanga is performing works by Alex Paxton, Laura Bowler & himself plus the world premiere of Massimiliano Vizzini's Fantasie Im(prompt)u on Sunday, 8pm. Info & tickets at gaudeamus.nl/en/events/08...
LAST DAY to register for our free one-day symposium, Creative Machines: Technology and Collaborative Practice in Contemporary Music. See the schedule and register now at www.cyborgsoloists.com/creative-mac...
May 22, 2024 at 12:11 PM
LAST DAY to register for our free one-day symposium, Creative Machines: Technology and Collaborative Practice in Contemporary Music. See the schedule and register now at www.cyborgsoloists.com/creative-mac...
Last days to register for our free one-day symposium 'Creative Machines: Technology & Collaborative Practice in Contemporary Music' on 7 June 2024 www.cyborgsoloists.com/creative-mac... for info, schedule and the all-important registration button
Creative Machines symposium 2024 - Registration — CYBORG SOLOISTS
Methods and Methodologies for Technology-Centred Practice-Based Research in
Contemporary Music - Cyborg Soloists/TiMP Symposium at Royal Holloway,
University of London
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May 20, 2024 at 11:15 AM
Last days to register for our free one-day symposium 'Creative Machines: Technology & Collaborative Practice in Contemporary Music' on 7 June 2024 www.cyborgsoloists.com/creative-mac... for info, schedule and the all-important registration button
Luke Nickel will be giving the keynote address at our symposium in June on the topic "Transmission, loss, and coalescence in collaborations with humans, technologies, and intelligences". Register here by 22 May: www.cyborgsoloists.com/creative-mac...
May 16, 2024 at 1:45 PM
Luke Nickel will be giving the keynote address at our symposium in June on the topic "Transmission, loss, and coalescence in collaborations with humans, technologies, and intelligences". Register here by 22 May: www.cyborgsoloists.com/creative-mac...
Registration is now open for our free one-day symposium 'Creative Machines: Technology and Collaborative Practice in Contemporary Music'. Details, schedule & the all-important registration button at www.cyborgsoloists.com/creative-mac...
April 24, 2024 at 12:56 PM
Registration is now open for our free one-day symposium 'Creative Machines: Technology and Collaborative Practice in Contemporary Music'. Details, schedule & the all-important registration button at www.cyborgsoloists.com/creative-mac...
Next week at Royal Holloway's New Sounds Festival: New works by SophiaManta.bsky.social , Art Banymandhub & Hannah Lam, improvising duo Jonathan Packham & Jack Frankland & Zubin Kanga: it's going to be an exciting evening. Full details & tickets at royalholloway.ac.uk/research-and...
March 4, 2024 at 5:42 PM
Next week at Royal Holloway's New Sounds Festival: New works by SophiaManta.bsky.social , Art Banymandhub & Hannah Lam, improvising duo Jonathan Packham & Jack Frankland & Zubin Kanga: it's going to be an exciting evening. Full details & tickets at royalholloway.ac.uk/research-and...
Thanks to everyone who submitted abstracts to our Call for Papers. The call is now closed and we're embarking on reading all these fascinating abstracts!
March 4, 2024 at 4:15 PM
Thanks to everyone who submitted abstracts to our Call for Papers. The call is now closed and we're embarking on reading all these fascinating abstracts!
We've extended the deadline of our call for papers for our symposium Creative Machines: Technology & Collaborative Practice in Contemporary Music, so if you thought you'd missed out, go go GO! Send us your abstract! New deadline 3 March. Details here: www.cyborgsoloists.com/call-for-pap...
February 27, 2024 at 11:34 AM
We've extended the deadline of our call for papers for our symposium Creative Machines: Technology & Collaborative Practice in Contemporary Music, so if you thought you'd missed out, go go GO! Send us your abstract! New deadline 3 March. Details here: www.cyborgsoloists.com/call-for-pap...
LAST DAY to send in your abstracts for our June symposium, Creative Machines: Technology and Collaborative Practice in Contemporary Music. Details at www.cyborgsoloists.com/call-for-pap...
February 25, 2024 at 12:08 PM
LAST DAY to send in your abstracts for our June symposium, Creative Machines: Technology and Collaborative Practice in Contemporary Music. Details at www.cyborgsoloists.com/call-for-pap...
5 days remaining to submit your abstract for our June symposium, Creative Machines: Technology and Collaborative Practice in Contemporary Music... Email us if you have questions! www.cyborgsoloists.com/call-for-pap...
February 20, 2024 at 6:32 PM
5 days remaining to submit your abstract for our June symposium, Creative Machines: Technology and Collaborative Practice in Contemporary Music... Email us if you have questions! www.cyborgsoloists.com/call-for-pap...