Publications & Presentations

Conference Papers

Kanga, Zubin and Jonathan Packham. 2024. “Cyborg Soloists: An Infrastructure for Sharing Approaches to Innovative Technologies in Contemporary Music.” Paper presented at Innovation in Music Conference, Oslo, 14-16 June.

Kanga, Zubin. 2022. “Performing a Rollercoaster: Interdisciplinary Games in Luke Nickel’s hhiiddeenn vvoorrttiicceess.” Paper presented at Music and Interdisciplinary Process, Music and/as Process, online, 16-17 September.

Kanga, Zubin. 2022. “Conducting the Air: The Performer’s Role in the Development of New Works using Gesture-controlled Digital Instruments.” Paper presented at RMA Annual Conference, University of Durham, 8 September.

Kanga, Zubin, Mark Dyer, Lia Mice and Vicky Clarke. 2022. “Augmented Sonic Practice: Renegotiating the Role of Technology within Creative Practices of Contemporary Music.” Themed Session at Royal Music Association Conference, Durham University Music Department, Durham/online, 8-10 September.

Dyer, Mark. 2022. “Scribe: using neural networks to reanimate ancient music manuscripts.” Paper presented at MedRen Conference, Uppsala University, Uppsala, 4 – 7 July.

Kanga, Zubin. 2022. '“Queering the Cyborg: The extension, electrification and queering of the performer’s body and instrument in new works for keyboards and multimedia.” Paper presented at Performance Studies Network International Conference, University of Surrey, 2 July.

Dyer, Mark. 2022. “Scribe: working with neural networks to reanimate the vibrant transformations of ancient music manuscripts.” Poster presented at Music Since 1900 Conference, Birmingham Conservatoire, Birmingham, 17 – 20 June.

Kanga, Zubin and Mark Dyer. 2022. “Pulse and Play: Smart Metronome Devices in Task-Based, Interactive Composition.” Paper presented at Ludo2022: 11th Annual Conference on Video Games and Sound, Royal Holloway University of London, 22 April.

Kanga, Zubin. 2021. “Three Approaches to Technology as a Catalyst for the Performer’s Expanding Role in the Work.” Paper presented at Research Colloquium, Nottingham University Music Department, Nottingham, 14 December. 

Dyer, Mark. 2021. “Algorithmic Art-Anthropology: neural synthesis as a methodology for speaking nearby.” Paper presented at Imagining the Non-Present, Orpheus Doctoral Conference, online, 6 September - 4 October.

Publications

Kanga, Zubin and Mark Dyer, eds. 2023. “The Performer as Posthuman Assemblage: Performer-Machine Interactions in Contemporary Music”, special issue of Contemporary Music Review 42, 3.

Fryberger, Annalies, José L. Besada and Zubin Kanga, eds. 2022. “@newmusic #soundart: Contemporary Music in the Age of Social Media”, special issue of Contemporary Music Review 41, 4.

Packham, Jonathan. 2024 “Séance and technology: Intermundane communication as a methodology for contemporary music.” International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/14794713.2024.2412507

Kanga, Zubin, Mark Dyer, Caitlin Rowley and Jonathan Packham. 2024 “Reflections on Cyborg Collaborations: Cross-disciplinary collaborative practice in technologically-focused contemporary music.” Tempo 78, 308: 55-69. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0040298223000967

Dyer, Mark. 2023. “Scribe: Machine Learning, Parafiction and the Perversion of Practice.” Leonardo. https://doi.org/10.1162/leon_a_02363

Dyer, Mark. 2022. “Neural Synthesis as a Methodology for Art-Anthropology in Contemporary Music.” Organised Sound 27, 2. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1355771822000371

Kanga, Zubin. 2022. “All My Time: Experimental Subversions of Livestreamed Performance During the Covid-19 Pandemic”, Contemporary Music Review 41, 4: 358–381. https://doi.org/10.1080/07494467.2022.2087445.

Fryberger, Annalies, José L. Besada and Zubin Kanga. 2022 “@Newmusic #Soundart: Contemporary Music in the Age of Social Media”, Contemporary Music Review 41, 4: 329–336. https://doi.org/10.1080/07494467.2022.2087388.

McLaughlin, Scott, Zubin Kanga and Mira Benjamin. 2021. “Composing Technique, Performing Technique.” Journal for Artistic Research 23. https://doi.org/10.22501/jar.711320

Kanga, Zubin. 2021. “Performing WIKI-PIANO.NET: Strategies for realising Alexander Schubert’s ever-changing internet-composed piano work.” Leonardo Music Journal 54, 2. https://doi.org/10.1162/leon_a_01962

Kanga, Zubin. 2020. “WIKI-PIANO: examining the crowdsourced composition of a continuously changing internet-based score.” Tempo 74, 294: 6-22. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0040298220000352

Kanga, Zubin, Mark Dyer, Caitlin Rowley, Jonathan Packham et al. 2024. Technology and Contemporary Classical Music: Methodologies in Practice-Based Research. National Centre for Research Methods.

Recordings

Works by Laura Bowler, Laurence Osborn, Shiva Feshareki, Oliver Leith, Emily Howard and Zubin Kanga. Performed by Zubin Kanga. Released 2023 on Cyborg Pianist. London: NCM Recordings. Album available from NMC and streaming services.

Works by CHAINES, Tansy Davies, Nwando Ebizie, Alex Groves, Robin Haigh, Zubin Kanga, Ben Nobuto, Alex Paxton, Jasmin Kent Rodgman and Amble Skuse. Performed by Zubin Kanga. Released 2023 on Machine Dreams. London: Nonclassical. Album available on Bandcamp and streaming services.

Rodgers, Georgia. Ringinglow. Performed by Zubin Kanga. Released 2021 on September. Sheffield: Another Timbre. Album available on Bandcamp