International Concert Series 2024-25
In this lecture-recital, Dr Zubin Kanga (Research Lead) and Dr Jonathan Packham (Postdoctoral Research Assistant) discuss and demonstrate several works from the Royal Holloway-based music technology research project Cyborg Soloists.
In these works, new digital technologies create forms of human-computer interaction that verge on the supernatural. AI, biosensors, and motion-sensor instruments are used to conjure artificial voices, communicate with artificial avatars, and render invisible instruments in the air. An accompanying lecture explores how these technologies break down the barrier between science and science-fiction, between real and artificial co-performers, and perhaps even between the worlds of the living and the dead.
This event is presented as part of the International Concert Series 2024-25 at Royal Holloway, in collaboration with the Centre for AudioVisual Research and Cyborg Soloists.
Event programme
Featuring performances of:
Gulf by Rylan Gleave (for piano and motion-controlled electronics).
ghost by Jonathan Packham (for solo performer and electronics)
I Will Fix Myself (Just Circles) by Nwando Ebizie (for piano, synthesizer and electronics
About the performers
Zubin Kanga is a pianist, composer, improviser and technologist. Over the last decade he has established his reputation in Europe and Australia as a leading innovator of new approaches to the piano. His work in recent years has focused on new models of interaction between a live musician and new technologies, including motion-sensor-controlled live electronics, AI, reinterpretations of cinema history, live-generated 3D visuals, analogue synthesizers, keyboard samplers, magnetic resonators, stop-motion animation, audio scores, keyboards as video-game-style controllers, multi-keyboard virtuosity, interactions with live-video, and internet-based scores. Read more.
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Alexander Schubert's 'Steady State' at hcmf// (Photographer: Robin Clewley)
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Tickets
General admission is £5.00; FREE for Royal Holloway students, Royal Holloway staff and children under the age of 16. Season Tickets do NOT apply to this event.
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