New Sounds Festival 2024
Cyborg Soloists is an innovative music-technology research project based in the Music Department, headed by Dr Zubin Kanga and supported by a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship. This concert features three student composer-performers selected from Cyborg Soloists’ 2024 Call for Student Projects: Art Banymandhub, Hannah Lam and Sophia Manta. They’ve created new works using innovative technologies including the ROLI LUMI Keys (a keyboard with pressure and surface sensors) and Showsync (software that creates live visuals that respond to the music).
The concert also features a duo performance by Jack Frankland and Jonathan Packham (Cyborg Soloists Postdoctoral Research Assistant) featuring the Genki Wave motion sensor ring, as well as a performance by Cyborg Soloists Principal Investigator Zubin Kanga, featuring the piano, an analogue synthesizer and MiMU sensor gloves that can shape sounds through gesture and movement.
This event is presented as part of the New Sounds Festival 2024, in partnership with Cyborg Soloists and the International Concert Series at Royal Holloway University of London.
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About the performers
Hannah Lam is a composer and instrumentalist described as having a 'real and distinct compositional voice' by Bob Chilcott. Having studied composition and piano at the Junior Royal Academy of Music, Hannah is currently undertaking a joint degree in music and mathematics. She has been awarded the ORA Young Composers 2023 winner, along with being a finalist in the Young Percussion Composer of the Year, and selected for the LSO Next Generation Scheme. Her compositions have premiered at prestigious events such as the Cambridge Summer Festival and the Three Choirs Festival. Additionally, she has received compositional mentoring from composers; John Cooney, Gareth Moorcraft, Alexander Campkin and Dani Howard.
Sophia Manta is a percussionist and composer. They previously attended the Junior Royal Academy of Music, studying percussion with Barnaby Archer and composition with John Cooney.
Jack Frankland & Jonathan Packham are an improvisatory duo based in London.
Zubin Kanga is a pianist, composer, and technologist. In 2020, Kanga was awarded a prestigious UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship to fund his latest multi-year project Cyborg Soloists, based at Royal Holloway, University of London, where he is Senior Lecturer in Musical Performance and Digital Arts. Cyborg Soloists has facilitated the creation of many new works exploring new interactions between live musicians and AI and machine learning, interactive visuals and VR, motion and biosensors, and new digital instruments. His Cyborg Soloists work was recently featured in The New York Times, The Wire, Classical Music Magazine, Limelight Magazine and New Scientist.
Zubin has premiered more than 150 works and performed at many international festivals including the BBC Proms, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (UK) Melbourne Festival (Australia), Paris Autumn Festival (France), Klang Festival (Denmark), Modulus Festival (Canada) and November Music (Netherlands).
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