Cyborg Soloists: Advancing Interdisciplinary Music in the Post-Internet Age Through New Musician-Technology Interactions.

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The project will achieve these objectives by addressing the following research questions:- How can Interdisciplinary Music be advanced beyond its current practice by collaborating with leading technologicalinnovators?- How can recent developments in electronics instruments, motion sensors, AI, virtual reality, web design and interactive animation and other technological innovations be used by creative musicians in new ways to create ambitious new work?- How can musicians utilise specialist technological expertise in achieving more ambitious uses of film, analogue synthesisers and other existing technologies?- Can these technological innovations be applied to other arts and other industries?Cyborg Soloists will address these questions by creating a Centre for R&D in Interdisciplinary Music at Royal Holloway. TheCentre will combine the resources of the Music, Media Arts, Drama, Electrical Engineering, and Computer Sciencedepartments. Internationally renowned musicians and technological innovators will be invited to create work that expandsthe field of interdisciplinary music that will then be toured to major international festivals and venues. The hub will hostresidencies for visiting artists, giving these bespoke teams the time and resources to tackle the technical and artisticchallenges limiting the expansion of the field. The applicant will lead the projects, mentor the collaborators, and be one ofthe primary artists in most of the projects. Ethnographic documentation of the projects will be used to research the creativeprocesses leading to new insights into musician-technology interactions. And the new and adapted technologies will havewide applications across musical genres, other performing arts, as well as having wider applications in human-computerinteractions.By creating research teams between musicians and technological innovators, a range of ambitious, innovative new projectswill be explored, focused on the following topic areas:Extending the BodyCreating cyborg musicians through the use of motion sensors, 3D motion capture, and brainwave scanning tech.Remaking the OldRepurposed analogue technologies, expanding the possibilities of analogue synthesisers, and of common analoguetechnologies such as tape machines and turntablesFilm-Body interactionCompositions featuring live video interaction with the performer, using new films featuring performers and composers, andre-editing existing filmsHyperinstrumentsCreating new musical instruments that extend existing ones with electronics. These would range from expansions of newdigital instruments (such as Air Sticks), new surface-based sensors, instruments featuring in-built sensors, and newacoustic instruments using 3D-printing technologyAI and new types of interaction with computersArtificial Intelligence to develop computerised co-performers (acting as chamber musicians) and create new types of visualinteraction.Music with Virtual RealityVirtual reality to create musical works that expand on RHUL's StoryFutures project and Jonathan Packam's VR scores.Music using the Internet and Mobile TechnologiesExploring the use of mobile phones for audience interaction, as well as website-based crowdsourced compositionsHybrid Installation WorksLong form performances and works created for art spaces, facilitating new types of audience interaction. Staged Hybrid WorksInviting directors and theatre practitioners to create major works with composers and performers, featuring thetechnological innovations developed. Research Outputs from the project will including the 25 compositions, at least 10 new technological innovations developed with industry partners, performance tours by the applicant and invited collaborators, 12 journal articles, 12 conference papers, new software and hardware, 2 conferences, 2 festivals, and an edited bookabout new directions in interdisciplinary music.