QMUL announced that its nursery will close with less than 3 months notice, laying off its staff and throwing the children to the mercy of the private market. Terrible news for a wonderful resource that did so much for families like mine. Do better Queen Mary University of London.

Do you have a presentation idea that will help OHMI deliver a major conference on Music & Physical Disability in Birmingham, March 2025? We’d love to hear from you. Deadline for Calls: 30 September 2024. ohmi.org.uk/blog/call-for-… #disabledmusic #musicforall #disabledmusicians

If you haven't already heard, there is an opportunity to join the wonderful team of Trustees that currently oversee the work of OHMI. The closing date is very soon though - this coming Friday, so don't miss out! Further details are at ohmi.org.uk/blog/want-to-j…

The lab is hiring a postdoc! This is a 2-year position, Research Associate in Digital Musical Instrument Design, based at Imperial College London. The role focuses on the hardware and software foundations of new musical instruments. Apply by 7 July: imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-jo…

Join us at 11am London time on Friday for the next AIL Open Seminar, featuring Zeynep Bulut from SARC presenting "Sustainable Speech: Experimental Music and Sensory Technologies for Post-Stroke Aphasia". Details and live-stream link: instrumentslab.org/news/2024/06/1…

Excited to be heading to Lille for Eurohaptics 2024 next week. I'll be presenting my work in progress paper written with Andrew McPherson: "A self-sensing vibrotactile transducer for bidirectional interaction" along with a demo of the work instrumentslab.org/data/andrew/da…

Sonic entanglements with EMG interaction, just published Open Access and presented at #DIS2024 . With Andrew McPherson Courtney Reed MSH Paris Nord dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/36…

Another fab day marvelling at brill research at #ESCOM12 ESCOM12 Jennifer MacRitchie’s Dr Jennifer MacRitchie keynote ‘Being musical in older adulthood: traditional ways of engaging, technology & new opportunities’ was mind blowing: impactful,person-centred,scientifically stunning 🤩

Deadline extended to 12 July -- interested in a 2-year postdoc on digital musical instrument design at Imperial College London? Details below!

(1/6) First, I had such a great experience participating in the Designs for Listening session at #DIS2024 on Thursday evening, check out these great works we presented alongside! ⬇️⬇️⬇️ (Thanks Tove Grimstad Bang for excellent session chairing ✨)

(6/6) Sonic Entanglements with Electromyography: Between Bodies, Signals, and Representations By yours truly, along amazing Landon Morrison, Andrew McPherson, David Fierro, and Atau Tanaka #DIS2024 dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/36…

If you're looking for a PhD working with instrument design, music wearables, messy biodata, performance cultures and entanglements, being silly while looking at daunting tech topics... please do get in touch! I'll be looking for some Jan'25 starters soon Loughborough University London #DIS2024

Can you imagine a world without music? Well, it seems that management Goldsmiths, University of London certainly can. Please see this passionate petition initiated by students and stand with us in solidarity with colleagues whose jobs are being terminated as we speak. change.org/p/protect-musi…

Happy to share our new paper: Real-time Timbre Remapping with Differentiable DSP Timbral control of synthesizers (like an 808) in real-time using audio from acoustic percussion performances. 🥁🎛️ arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2407.04547 audio/video/code: jordieshier.com/projects/nime2…

I will be at this workshop in Berlin this Friday presenting my latest project with Adam Pultz Melbye (and Adam Barkley on the modular!) – there will also be a performance! x.com/federicovisi/s…

Just out! New ACM TOCHI paper with Courtney Reed Adán L. Benito Franco Caspe: "Shifting Ambiguity, Collapsing Indeterminacy: Designing with Data as Baradian Apparatus". Open access: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/36…

Congratulations Matt Davison on winning Best Presentation at NIME 2024! Read the paper here: instrumentslab.org/data/andrew/da…

New article in Music & Science by Landon Morrison, supported by the RUDIMENTS project: "Timbre Space: On the Flat History of a Multidimensional Metaphor" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Nick Rothwell learns about the Andrew McPherson a music technology research team lead by Andrew McPherson whose ongoing projects include the Magnetic Resonator Piano and the Bela open-source platform. sosm.ag/AugmentedInstr… #SOSPodcast #audio #synthesizer #expressive #keyboard