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Cyborg Soloists
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Cyborg Soloists is a music technology research project led by Dr Zubin Kanga, based at Royal Holloway, University of London.
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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...
A young man with curly black hair, wearing a blue suit is standing in the middle of four synthesiser keyboards, arranged to form a square. He is playing two of them - one with each hand, and looking off, out of the photograph, to our left. He is wearing a black glove on his (from our perspective) left hand. We can see cables running from the keyboards, all of them coloured - blue, green or red - and the lighting is atmospheric, blending from blue (on the right) through pink in the middle to a purple tone on the leftmost side of the image.
November 3, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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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-...
A young man with curly black hair, wearing a blue suit is standing in the middle of four synthesiser keyboards, arranged to form a square. He is playing two of them - one with each hand, and looking off, out of the photograph, to our left. He is wearing a black glove on his (from our perspective) left hand. We can see cables running from the keyboards, all of them coloured - blue, green or red - and the lighting is atmospheric, blending from blue (on the right) through pink in the middle to a purple tone on the leftmost side of the image.
October 30, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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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...
A beautifully textured, industrial brick wall - possibly Victorian - in Birmingham. The brick is a yellowish tone, stained as if by tainted water running down from the top of it. The wall is graffitied at the bottom - yellow and blue on the right, white with a black drop-shadow on a multicoloured background on the left, with industrial-looking signage. There's an elegantly shaped segmental arch opening, through which we can see a series of similar openings in walls further away, the perspective showing the archways diminishing in size so that those further away seem to be contained by the ones closer to the viewer.
April 17, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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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-...
A poster for the 'Lumen Machine' performance by Zubin Kanga and Ensemble Offspring. The text gives these details, as well as giving the names of the composers whose works are being premiered: Brigitta Muntendorf, Zubin Kanga, Amanda Cole and Tristan Coelho. Behind the text is a photograph of a white woman (percussionist Claire Edwards) in a pink dress holding some crotales. She is looking at the camera and behind her is a green swirl on a black background.
April 11, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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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...
A square poster from the Department of Music at Royal Holloway, University of London, suggesting the viewer book now for Ghost in the Machine: AI and Machine-Driven Séancing. The poster image shows billowing clouds of red smoke, in which two human figures can vaguely be seen - one standing, dressed in dark colours, and one seated in a pale-coloured outfit with a hood.
February 20, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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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...
A cheerful snowman’s face. He has small black eyes, a stubby stick nose and a happy lopsided smile made of twigs
November 19, 2024 at 10:11 AM
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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
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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...
A young man wearing a blue suit, black high-tech MiMU sensor gloves and a mirrorball-like motorcycle helmet with the visor down, is playing the piano with a GoPro camera looking at him from above the keyboard
September 4, 2024 at 6:00 PM
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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...
A banner promoting the last day to register for the symposium 'Creative Machines: Technology & Collaborative Practice in Contemporary Music' on 7 June 2024 at Royal Holloway, University of London. The text sits over an image of two people in silhouette against a red and orange-lit background holding microphones in front of desk fans. The people are facing each other, but looking down, intently focused on the fans and their task.
May 22, 2024 at 12:11 PM
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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...
A banner promoting registration for the symposium 'Creative Machines: Technology & Collaborative Practice in Contemporary Music' on 7 June 2024 at Royal Holloway, University of London. Registration closes on 22 May 2024. The text sits over an image of two people in silhouette against a red and orange-lit background holding microphones in front of desk fans. The people are facing each other, but looking down, intently focused on the fans and their task.
May 16, 2024 at 1:45 PM
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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...
A banner promoting registration for the symposium 'Creative Machines: Technology & Collaborative Practice in Contemporary Music' on 7 June 2024 at Royal Holloway, University of London. The text sits over an image of two people in silhouette against a red and orange-lit background holding microphones in front of desk fans. The people are facing each other, but looking down, intently focused on the fans and their task.
April 24, 2024 at 12:56 PM
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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...
Banner for New Sounds Festival. The image behind the text shows a young man with black hair, wearing a blue suit, standing with one black-gloved hand on a keyboard, surrounded by synthesiser keyboards; colourful cables are on the ground
March 4, 2024 at 5:42 PM
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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...
Call for Papers banner - deadline extended to 3 March 2024 for the Creative Machines: Technology & Collaborative Practice in Contemporary Music symposium, to be held on 7 June 2024 at Royal Holloway, University of London. The image this text is over shows two people in silhouette against a red-lit background. They are holding microphones in front of desk fans.
February 27, 2024 at 11:34 AM
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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...
Poster image: Call for Papers for a symposium, Creative Machines: Technology & Creative Practice in Contemporary Music, deadline 25 February 2024. Symposium date is 7 June 2024, to be held at Royal Holloway, University of London. The image behind the text shows two people in silhouette, facing each other against a red-lit background, holding microphones up to desk fans.
February 20, 2024 at 6:32 PM
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Here's a tiny moment of Benjamin Tassie's 75-minute work 'Earth of the Slumbering & Liquid Trees' which Zubin Kanga is performing tonight at the National Gallery: youtube.com/shorts/WpoLl...

Intrigued? Details & free tickets at www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/frida...
Three synthesiser keyboards in a stacked formation. The lowest, at the right side of the image is a ROLI Seaboard RISE 2 expressive keyboard. In the background we can see an open laptop and a red audio interface
January 19, 2024 at 11:59 AM
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This Friday, at the National Gallery, London, Zubin Kanga will premiere Benjamin Tassie's Earth of the Slumbering and Liquid Trees, a 75-minute work for multiple keyboards, incl. ROLI Seaboard Rise 2, featuring the sounds of historic organs. Friday, 6.30pm, FREE. Details at tinyurl.com/tassie202401
A long room in the National Gallery, London. The walls are a deep pink colour, with old paintings in gold frames arranged on the walls, smaller paintings paired with one positioned above the other. The ceiling is ornate, with carved edges which appear to house decorative lighting and a glass ceiling. There is a double row of comfortable seats down the middle of the room, backs to each other, facing the paintings.
January 17, 2024 at 4:46 PM