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Putting the rhythm in Algorithm. Workshop on musical rhythm in collaboration with the Stables Theatre and Raz Jayasuriya, for 30 ticketed members of...
The CHIME EPSRC Network on Music and Human Computer Interaction held a one-day event on Music Interaction and Physical...
The International conference on the Psychology of Programming (PPIG) was hosted by Open University on 5 - 9 September 2022. This year’s theme...
CHIME hosted the 2022 NIME Liberating Methods workshop. Workshop attendees were encouraged to arrive with a particular research question they’d...
Simon Holland (PI) and Tom Mudd (Co-I, University of Edinburgh) have been awarded a new EPSRC grant to create network in Music and Human Computer...
Congratulations to Matt Bellingham on the award of his PhD! His research is entitled: Choosers: A Visual Programming Language for Nondeterministic...
Congratulation to Noam Lederman on upgrade from MPhil to PhD registration on his project Enhancing Creativity with Intelligent Music Interfaces:...
Congratulations to German Ruiz-Marcos on successfully completing his viva voce examination for his PhD thesis entitled ‘Tension-driven Automatic...
The Polifonia Project €3,025,435 (A digital harmoniser for Musical Heritage Knowledge has been awarded by EU, to run 2021- 2024. The bid was...
Despite Covid Restrictions, the Innovate-UK Funded HAPPIE Project runs a successful series of pilot evaluations with visually impaired designers to...
Noam Lederman presents a paper "Developing drum improvisation skills through interaction with a reflective conversational agent" on the final day of...
Emilie Giles, Claudette Davis-Bonnick and Lisa Bowers redesign evaluations of haptic technologies for visually impaired designer so that the...
The Music Computing Lab as a research group adjusts to 100% remote working due to Covid lockdown. Research continues as normal. This is vastly...
The Polifonia Project €3,025,435 (A digital harmoniser for Musical Heritage Knowledge) is submitted to the EU. Decision expected in...
4 February - Research Fiesta held at Kents...
Some of us visit at the Saatchi Gallery in London the last exhibition of Tutenkamams' treasures that will ever be held outside Egypt. Simply...
17 December 2019 Noam Lederman and Simon Holland attend DMRN+14, the Digital Music Research Network One-day Workshop at QMUL in...
Agreement in principle established with the Stables Theatre Wavendon on a joint project as part of a 2-year long programme funded by the MK...
Noam Lederman starts PhD focusing on the development of drum improvisation skills through interaction with a reflective conversational...
Dr AnneMarie Zijlema runs Ideation workshop for haptic devices on 25 September 2019 in the Music Computing Lab 24th September Dr Oliver Hodl from...
Matt Bellingham presents a paper " Toward meaningful algorithmic music-making for non-programmers" at PPIG 2019, the 30th Annual Workshop of the...
CHI 2019 May 4 - 9 Glasgow (ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems). Simon Holland and Riasat Islam attend for Book...
Dr AnneMarie Zijlema presents a talk based on her PhD...
Tom Mudd has paper accepted by the prestigious IJHCS - the foremost journal worldwide in HCI. Mudd, Tom; Holland, Simon and Mulholland, Paul (2019)....
The new book New Directions In Music and HCI, three of whose lead editors are from the music computing lab, has now completed proof stages and will...
Matt Bellingham has completed a new major end-user study of choosers, his innovative graphical programming language Choosers, for algorithmic music...
Congratulations to Stefano Papetti and Charalampos Saitis, whose open-access freely available edited book Musical Haptics has already amassed over...
Congratulations to Tom Mudd, who after completing his remarkable PhD on Nonlinear Dynamics In Musical Interactions at the Music Computing Lab has...
Joe Corneli presents paper on Patterns of Design at Europlop 2018 (the 23rd European Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs) in Bavaria,...
Riasat Islam's paper on Haptic Technologies for Healthcare is presented at at EuroHaptics 2018 in Pisa,...
Simon Holland presents talk on 26th April on Music interaction tools for harmony and rhythm at McGill University Schulich School of Music,...
Riasat Islam presented 'Gait rehabilitation by outdoor rhythmic haptic cueing using wearable technology for neurological conditions: a case study'...
The OU's HCI group has four full papers accepted for CHI 2018 in Montreal Matt Bellingham has completed his end-user study of his innovative...
Congratulations to Tony Steffert who successfully defended his PhD thesis ‘Real-time electroencephalogram sonification for neurofeedback’ on 5th...
Demo to Makers of new 3D Printer in the School In Makerspace. 21st Nov 2017. Music and Human Computing Interaction ( Holland, Simon; Wilkie,...
Congratulations to Kurijn Buys who successfully defended his PhD thesis ‘Development and Evaluation of a Hybrid Instrument’ on 3rd October 2017....
Conference on Computer Simulation of Musical Creativity 11th - 13th Sept 2017. Matt Bellingham gave talk at CSMC "Choosers: designing a highly...
Congratulations to Tom Mudd who successfully defended his thesis ‘Nonlinear dynamics in musical interactions’ on 17th July 2017. His examiners...
Bernhard Schatzl demonstrates pressure chair demo with Support Vector Machine processing and...
Dr Albert Meroño, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, gives talk The Statistics of Stairway to Heaven: a Semantic story about Digital Humanities 13th...
Hackathons run in London, Birmingham and Edinburgh by members of the school his month to support our Interaction Design module...
Matt Bellingham presents poster at DMRN "Designing a highly expressive algorithmic music composition system for non-programmers", 20 Dec...
The Routledge Companion to Music, Technology, and Education finally released, including chapter on ' Harmony and Technology enhanced...
Federico Visi, a PhD student at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research at Plymouth University, an accomplished researcher in...
Kurijn Buys presented his paper “Improving the stability of a hybrid wind instrument using two microphones” written with David Sharp and Robin...
Based on earlier research in the Music Computing Lab that led to the devising of the Haptic Bracelets for learning and teaching multi-limbed drum...
Award from Julie Dyson £74,358 to fund PhD studentship in Digital...
Oliver Hodl successfully defended his PhD thesis “The Design of Technology-Mediated Audience Participation in Live Music” at the Technical...
Samuel Van Ransbeeck presented his installation Outros Registros (Other Registers) sonifying violence data at a public showing in Rio de Janeiro....
Grant awarded by Greater Manchester Academic Health Science Centre Network, Assistive Technologies – Reducing Social Isolation to support...
Andrew J. Milne and Simon Holland (2016) Empirically testing Tonnetz, voice-leading, and spectral models of perceived triadic distance. Journal of...
Andrea Franceschini of the Music Computing Lab successfully defended his PhD ‘Learning to use melodic similarity and contrast for narrative using...
Welcome to Simon Cutajar, who starts as a PhD student in the Music Computing Lab, with topic “Automatic Music Generation Based On Data...
Buys, Kurijn; Sharp, David and Laney, Robin (2015). A comparison of single-reed and bowed-string excitations of a hybrid wind instrument. In:...
Mudd, T., Holland, S., Mulholland, P., & Dalton, N. Investigating the effects of introducing nonlinear dynamical processes into digital musical...
Steffert, Tony; Holland, Simon; Mulholland, Paul; Dalton, Sheep; Väljamäe, Aleksander (2015) Prototyping a method for the assessment of real-time...
Georgiou, Theodoros; Holland, Simon; van der Linden, Janet; Tetley, Josie; Stockley, Rachel C.; Donaldson, Glenis; Garbutt, Linda; Pinzone, Ornella;...
Mudd, Tom; Holland, Simon; Mulholland, Paul and Dalton, Nicholas (2014). Nonlinear Dynamical Systems as Enablers of Exploratory Engagement with...
Prechtl, Anthony; Laney, Robin; Willis, Alistair and Samuels, Robert (2014). Methodological approaches to the evaluation of game music systems. In:...
Franceschini, Andrea; Laney, Robin and Dobbyn, Chris (2014). Learning musical contour on a tabletop. In: Joint ICMC/SMC 2014 Conference, 14 - 20...
Two students from The Music Computing Lab presented publications at NIME 2014, held 30 June - 4 July 2014. Goldsmiths, University of London: Tom...
Andrea Franceschini, Tom Mudd, Tony Steffert and Anthony Prechtl present research talks at the Centre for Research in Computing 2014 PhD...
Fanny Grasselly studying at the Ecole Centrale de Nantes on the prestigious “Ingénieur de l'École Centrale de Nantes” programme, begins a...
Kevin Deleaye, studying at the Ecole Centrale de Nantes on the prestigious “Ingénieur de l'École Centrale de Nantes” programme, begins a 6...
21st February 2014. Invited lecture given by Simon Holland as part of ESRC Seminar Series: Inclusive environments: shaping transitions from theory...
Prof Prof Harold Thimbleby gives a talk on human computer interaction issues in medical contexts (tith considerable relevance to recent medical...
Adam Linson successfully defended his thesis, 'Investigating the cognitive foundations of collaborative musical free improvisation: experimental...
Vass Angelis has successfully defended his thesis, entitled: "Validation and Analysis of a gradient frequency oscillatory neural network as a model...
Tom Mudd begins doctoral research in the Music Computing Lab looking at ways in which dynamical systems alter engagement with digital musical...
Oliver Hodl, Thomas Crevoisier and Simon Holland attend the first day of the 14th RPPW Conference on Rhythm Perception and Production in Birmingham,...
Thomas Crevoisier creates an iPad interface for Song Walker Harmony...
Matt Bellingham starts his PhD research investigating User Interfaces for Algorithmic Software. Matt is a Lecturer in Music Technology at the...
27 June Andy Milne successfully defended his thesis 'A computational model of the cognition of tonality'. His examiners were Prof Kevin McConway and...
17 May. Filming for Haptic Bracelet Video Takes place. 17 May. Luke Webb, musician and music teacher from visits the music Computing Lab with...
Anthony Prechtl presents paper on 'Algorithmic music as intelligent game music' at 50th Annual Convention of AISB In London, 1st-4th...
The book "Music and Human Computer Interaction", edited by members of the Music Computing Lab, and the first book in Springer's new Cultural...
The Stern Brocot Band has been joined by Simon Rolph as vocalist. The band is working on a new microtonal piece composed by Andy Milne that...
Robot assembly of the sub-miniature components of a batch of sixteen Haptic Bracelets is...
Katie Wilkie completes empirical work on the Magic Music Mat. This work explores a novel approach to collaborative music interaction design that...
Tony Steffert demonstrates professional-grade EEG and other biofeedback equipment to the weekly post-graduate research meeting. Anthony Prechtl...
Two new full time PhD students join the Music Computing Lab, Anthony Prechtl and Tony Steffert. Richard Seaton starts PhD in the Acoustics...
Carrie Lennard, a music teacher working with special needs children in London visits the Music Computing Lab on 20th August. Carrie followed up by...
Rosa Fox, who recently graduated with a degree in Music Informatics from Sussex University Joined the team working on the Haptic Bracelets to help...
The Stern Brocot band gave their first public performance of a new Tajikistan-inspired microtonal piece. Thanks to Phil Downs for filming the...
Vasillis Angelis has had his paper "Testing a computational model of rhythm perception using polyrhythmic stimuli." accepted for publication by the...
Andrea Franceschini has begun a PhD in the Music Computing Lab on Music Education. Anders Bouwer has agreed to return to the Music Computing Lab...
Adam Linson presented a paper "Improvisation without representation: artificial intelligence and music."co-written with Chris Dobbyn and Robin Laney...
"A MIDI sequencer that widens access to the compositional possibilities of novel tunings" by Prechtl, Milne, Holland, Laney, Sharp, has been...
The Mobile HCI 2011 Award for Most Influential Paper from Mobile HCI 2001 was awarded in Stockholm to Simon Holland and David Morse for their 2001...
"A MIDI sequencer that widens access to the compositional possibilities of novel tunings" by Prechtl, Milne, Holland, Laney, Sharp, has just been...
Anna Xambó and Adam Linson presented papers at ICMC in...
Anna Xambó, Katie Wilkie, and Rose Johnson presented papers at the workshop on Music Interaction at BCS HCI in Newcastle.Katie Wilkie, Simon...
Andrew Milne presented a paper at MCM in Paris.Andrew Milne had his paper "Modelling the similarity of pitch collections with expectation tensors"...
2011 BSC HCI Workshop - When Words Fail: What can Music Interaction tell us about...
Andrew Milne and Anna Xambó presented a poster at NIME in Oslo, Norway. Simon Holland was interviewed and quoted by New Scientist and the Daily...
Tom Collins had his paper "Modeling pattern importance in Chopin's mazurkas" (co-authored with Robin Laney, Alastair Wills, Paul Garthwaite) printed...
Modelling the similarity of pitch collections with expectation tensors, by Andrew Milne, William Sethares, Robin Laney, and David Sharp, is now "in...
Katie Wilkie, Rose Johnson, Grégory Leplâtre and Simon Holland have had their proposal accepted for a Music Interaction Workshop at BCS HCI...
Anna Xambó presented a poster, and Adam Linson and Andrew Milne gave talks at the DMRN+5 workshop at Queen Mary...
Andrew Milne, William Sethares, Robin Laney, and David Sharp, had a paper (Modelling the similarity of pitch collections with expectation tensors/i)...
2009 Interdisciplinary Workshop on Entrainment, Joint Action and Ensemble 2009 Music Computing Research...
2008 International Music Computing Research...
