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!
03.02.2026 11:50 — 👍 1 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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.
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...
20.12.2025 14:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Fascinating 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...
17.12.2025 15:42 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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)"
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...
16.12.2025 11:32 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Only an hour and a half away now from the London premiere of Philip Venables’ Answer Machine Tape, 1987 at Kings Place - who’s coming along? www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/cla...
05.12.2025 18:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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
04.12.2025 18:53 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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?...
25.11.2025 18:57 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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.
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...
03.11.2025 14:48 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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.
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-...
30.10.2025 17:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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
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...
![Trailer - 'we are environments for each other [trio]' (Scott McLaughlin)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xljbl33g6cyqkuruxv6ktr42/bafkreigabvlo6rqwqehaijeot75khipsc5zvzeskzwxgyip4oti7asil4y@jpeg)
"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...
13.05.2025 14:33 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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.
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...
17.04.2025 13:29 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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...
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...
14.04.2025 21:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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.
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-...
11.04.2025 22:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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.
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...
20.02.2025 16:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A cheerful snowman’s face. He has small black eyes, a stubby stick nose and a happy lopsided smile made of twigs
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...
19.11.2024 10:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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
10.10.2024 12:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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
24.09.2024 15:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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
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...
04.09.2024 18:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Awesome! That's so exciting!
04.09.2024 17:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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.
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...
22.05.2024 12:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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
20.05.2024 11:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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.
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...
16.05.2024 13:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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.
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...
24.04.2024 12:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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
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...
04.03.2024 17:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thanks 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!
04.03.2024 16:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
