Project Overview
Cyborg Soloists is a UKRI-funded Future Leaders Fellowship project led by Director and Principal Investigator Dr Zubin Kanga. Hosted at Royal Holloway, University of London, it explores interdisciplinary interactions between music, the other arts and new digital technologies.
Within this research hub, dozens of composers and performers are working together with technology researchers and 12 industry partners to develop artistic and technological innovations including new types of interaction between musicians and live computer-generated video, AI interactive co-performers, virtual reality performances, new digital instruments, the interactive use of mobile phones in performance, and expanding the bodies of musicians with robotics, motion-sensors and brain-scanning biosensors.
Cyborg Soloists comprises eight workstreams, each of which brings together composers, performers and sound artists with technology researchers and industry partners to develop artistic and technological innovations:
Extending the Body
Video-Body Interactions
Hyperinstruments
Remaking the Old
Music and Virtual Reality
AI Interactions
Music and the Internet/Mobiles, and
Hybrid Installation and Staged Works
Between 2021 and 2025, Cyborg Soloists artists and researchers will be producing new works which will be toured internationally to major festivals and leading venues, journal articles, conference papers, performance and documentary films, software patches, exhibitions , an edited book, and a festival and conference at Royal Holloway in 2024.
Cyborg Soloists is led by Dr Zubin Kanga (Director and Principal Investigator), with assistance from Dr Mark Dyer (Postdoctoral Researcher) and Caitlin Rowley (Research Administrator and Events Co-ordinator).
