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Alex McLean @slab.org · 10/09/2026

If you like making patterns then you might be interested in the open call for performances, conference talks and workshops for the Alpaca Festival on Algorithmic Patterns in the Creative Arts, happening in Sheffield UK. alpaca.cc/call/

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Open call – Alpaca Festival

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Seán Clancy @seanlclancy.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

It’s a bandcamp Friday… the first one since I released ‘where the paths end’ maybe you’d like it… seanclancy.bandcamp.com/album/se-n-c...

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Seán Clancy: Where the Paths End, by Sean Clancy

10 track album

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Cyborg Soloists @cyborgsoloists.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

A fun end to Friday: Here's the score follower video of Alex Paxton's Car-Pig, performed by Zubin Kanga. Happy weekend! youtu.be/UN0tplIypCI #CyborgSoloists

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Alex Paxton - Car Pig, (Zubin Kanga) [score follower]

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Cyborg Soloists @cyborgsoloists.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Perfect with your afternoon tea ☕ CNN's Transformers series features a video interview with Zubin Kanga - under 2 minutes on Zubin's Cyborg Soloists work expanding the piano with new technologies. edition.cnn.com/world/video/...

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Watch this ‘Cyborg pianist’ play with his eyes, hands and brain | CNN

Zubin Kanga uses wearable tech and algorithms to reinvent the piano recital.

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Cyborg Soloists @cyborgsoloists.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Couldn't make it to NIME this week? Come to the free NIME Open Day at Imperial College London tomorrow (27 Jun)! An afternoon of fascinating demos & performances, open to all. Registration required: nime2026.org/satellite-ev...

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Cyborg Soloists @cyborgsoloists.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Attending #NIME2026 today? Don't miss Zubin Kanga performing Rylan Gleave's 'Gulf' in this evening's concert programme. Gulf uses gesture-controlled live electronics alongside the piano. More info on Rylan's piece: cyborgsoloists.com/gulf

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Gulf — CYBORG SOLOISTS

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Cyborg Soloists @cyborgsoloists.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

A new four-day festival exploring AI & opera launches today! The Royal Opera House's RBO/SHIFT features performances, talks & workshops from composers & artists working with AI. Zubin Kanga's set this afternoon is sold out, but events continue through Sunday. Details: tinyurl.com/rboshift2026

A man stands with crossed arms, smiling at the camera from the stage of a theatre. Behind him we can see the empty house, with tiers of distinctive mauve-upholstered seats, awaiting the audience.

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Royal Holloway @royalholloway.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

We're making music experimentation accessible to all 🎼 Dr Zubin Kanga of our Department of Music is fearless in combining the best of music, technology and performance to create sights and sounds that are innovative and, importantly, inclusive. Find out more: ow.ly/45PO50YOpLZ

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Seán Clancy @seanlclancy.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Bonjour tout le monde. I'm delighted to say that a month from now on 15 May, @nmcrecordings.bsky.social will release my lasted album. It contains 5 pieces performed by Plus Minus Ensemble. It was recorded by Spud Murphy & mastered by Andrew Weathers. ⚡⚡⚡ nmc-recordings.myshopify.com/collections/...

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Cyborg Soloists @cyborgsoloists.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Looking for something different tonight in London? Head to @wigmore-hall.org.uk for Bastard Assignments’ absurd folk horror musiktheater work PIGSPIGSPIGS, featuring Caitlin Rowley’s Twigstrument, created with our partner Bela. Info & tickets: www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202...

Four white people stand in a rural setting. They are standing in a diamond formation, all enveloped in a strange patchwork garment. At the back, in the middle, is a very tall man wearing a flat cap. In front of him is a short woman with very short blonde hair scowling directly at us. To the left, a man wearing a white mop head as a wig looks to our right, towards the final member of the group, a blonde man with long flowing hair and a beard. Each member of the group has a lace collar around their neck.

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Cyborg Soloists @cyborgsoloists.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Interested in immersive sound design? University of Surrey's CoSTAR National Lab is hiring a Research Fellow in Generative Audio (jobs.surrey.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...) & recruiting for a funded PhD on AI-Based Text-to-Soundscape Generation (www.findaphd.com/phds/project...). Apply or share!

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Job Vacancy at the University of Surrey: Research Fellow in Generative Audio for Immersive Sound Design

Join the CoSTAR National Lab’s audio team to pioneer generative AI within interactive and immersive technologies in CVSSP at the University of Surrey, a global community dedicated to life-changing edu...

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Cyborg Soloists @cyborgsoloists.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Last chance to win a £50 Amazon voucher! If you've seen Zubin Kanga perform Philip Venables' Answer Machine Tape, 1987, please share your thoughts in our quick survey by 23 Dec: forms.gle/3W3rSRjkmSg8...

A young man with black hair, wearing a black suit, is sitting against a black background, playing a black piano. There is a lit iPad in front of him, showing up as a white panel. He is looking down at his hands. Running across the frame are words and jumbled letters in white typed text including the words 'answer', 'so are you there? hmm where are you?', 'acids', 'aminoacids' and 'john it's george'. The text is slanted down towards the right, and we can see a blurred reflection of it as a pale yellowish grey overlaying the bottom part of the image.

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Cyborg Soloists @cyborgsoloists.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Fascinating PhD studentship available at @ucl.ac.uk on musical interaction in extended reality using biometric interfaces. Applications close 5 January 2026. We'll be watching this with interest! ucl-epsrc-dtp.github.io/2026-27-proj...

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The Body as a Future Instrument: Improving Musical Interaction in Extended Reality Environments using Biometric Interfaces

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Cyborg Soloists @cyborgsoloists.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Seen Zubin Kanga perform Philip Venables' Answer Machine Tape, 1987? We want your feedback! Fill out our quick survey by 23 Dec for a chance to win a £50 Amazon voucher. Your input helps us commission more new works: forms.gle/3W3rSRjkmSg8...

A young man with dark hair, wearing a dark suit is playing a black piano. He is sitting in a pool of light that illuminates his face, hands and the keyboard, but otherwise he and the piano blend somewhat with the black background of the image. Above his head we can see jumbled typed messages, (mis)transcribed from the answering machine tape that forms the backbone of the piece, finishing with the words "could you please give me a call? answer machine tape, 1987 (peter)"

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Cyborg Soloists @cyborgsoloists.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Friday at Kings Place: A unique window into the New York art scene in the midst of the AIDS crisis as Zubin Kanga gives the London premiere of Philip Venables' Answer Machine Tape, 1987. A powerful and poignant reflection on queer history. Book now: tinyurl.com/kp20251205

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Zubin Kanga performs Philip Venables' Answer Machine Tape, 1987 • Classical • Kings Place

Zubin Kanga performs the London premiere of Answer Machine Tape, 1987, a major work for piano and multimedia by Philip Venables, created in collaboration with dramatist Ted Huffman. It focuses on visu...

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Cyborg Soloists @cyborgsoloists.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

AI and the orchestra: Here's @robertlaidlow.bsky.social demonstrating the cadenza of his TECHNO-UTOPIA on the Stacco – an instrument created by Intelligent Instruments Lab which brings together magnets and AI. Look and listen here: youtu.be/kTd6NjLpKiY?...

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Stacco Cadenza from TECHNO-UTOPIA Demo

YouTube video by Robert Laidlow

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Cyborg Soloists @cyborgsoloists.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

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.

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Cyborg Soloists @cyborgsoloists.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

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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lara agar @laraagar.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

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

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Seán Clancy @seanlclancy.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

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 billetto.ie/e/plus-minus...

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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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Tom Mitchell @teamaxe.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

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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City St Georges, Music @citystgeorgesmusic.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

"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...

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Trailer - 'we are environments for each other [trio]' (Scott McLaughlin)

YouTube video by Scott McLaughlin

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Cyborg Soloists @cyborgsoloists.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

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.

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Cyborg Soloists @cyborgsoloists.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

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...

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Lumen Machine (Ensemble Offspring)

Read the Limelight review.

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Cyborg Soloists @cyborgsoloists.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

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.

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Cyborg Soloists @cyborgsoloists.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

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.

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Cyborg Soloists @cyborgsoloists.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

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

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Cyborg Soloists @cyborgsoloists.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

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...

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Cyborg Soloists @cyborgsoloists.bsky.social · 10/10/2024

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

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Fever Dreams — Manchester Collective

October 2024

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Cyborg Soloists @cyborgsoloists.bsky.social · 24/09/2024

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

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Scribe — CYBORG SOLOISTS

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Cyborg Soloists @cyborgsoloists.bsky.social · 04/09/2024

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

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Cyborg Soloists @cyborgsoloists.bsky.social · 22/05/2024

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.

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Cyborg Soloists @cyborgsoloists.bsky.social · 20/05/2024

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

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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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Cyborg Soloists @cyborgsoloists.bsky.social · 16/05/2024

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.

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Cyborg Soloists @cyborgsoloists.bsky.social · 24/04/2024

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...

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Cyborg Soloists @cyborgsoloists.bsky.social · 04/03/2024

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

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Cyborg Soloists @cyborgsoloists.bsky.social · 04/03/2024

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!

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Cyborg Soloists @cyborgsoloists.bsky.social · 27/02/2024

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.

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Cyborg Soloists @cyborgsoloists.bsky.social · 25/02/2024

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...

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Cyborg Soloists @cyborgsoloists.bsky.social · 20/02/2024

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.

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Cyborg Soloists @cyborgsoloists.bsky.social · 23/01/2024

Thanks to everyone who came to Zubin Kanga's performance of Benjamin Tassie's Earth of the Slumbering & Liquid Trees at the National Gallery on Friday - what a night, eh? If you came, please fill out our short survey to help us commission more work! forms.gle/RMBdBnJcd9uC... Photos & video soon...

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Cyborg Soloists @cyborgsoloists.bsky.social · 19/01/2024

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

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Cyborg Soloists @cyborgsoloists.bsky.social · 17/01/2024

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.

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Cyborg Soloists @cyborgsoloists.bsky.social · 22/11/2023

A dip into the archive to start: composer Luke Nickel describes how he converted the speed of simulated roller coasters into pulses on Soundbrenner metronomes being worn by pianist Zubin Kanga for hhiiddeenn vvoorrttiicceess www.cyborgsoloists.com/news-large/r...

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Roller coaster resonance: Translating speed to pulse — CYBORG SOLOISTS

Luke Nickel talks about how he worked with Soundbrenner to convert telemetry data from his impossible simulated roller coasters into pulses on the Soundbrenner Core devices for hhiiddeenn vvoorrttii...

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