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Ghost in the Machine - Egham, UK

  • Windsor Building, Royal Holloway, University of London Egham Hill Egham, England, TW20 0EX United Kingdom (map)

In this lecture-recital, Dr Zubin Kanga and Dr Jonathan Packham 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.

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)

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