HCI + Sound & Music Computing
Technology • Design • Experience
This is my personal website, blog and portfolio. The views expressed on this website/blog are mine alone and do not necessarily reflect the views of any other individual or organisation.
A Random Blog Post 2006-2022
Latest Blog Posts
- New PhD Opportunity (QMUL S&E Underrepresented Group Studentships) - Collaborative Motion‑Based Hybrid Live Coding
- Open Call PhD Position Funded by China Scholarship Council
- My new lab
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Latest Publications
- New O’Flaherty, T. F., Elmokadem, M. B., Xu, X., Manjunatha, K. N., Roma, G., Xenakis, G., Xambó, A., (2025) "Sonification Mappings for Sensing Tree Stress: A DIY Approach". Proceedings of the Web Audio Conference 2025 (WAC 2025). Ircam/Mozilla, Paris, France.
- Zheng, S. J., Xambó, A., Bryan-Kinns, N. (2025) “Exploring gestural affordances in audio latent space navigation”. Frontiers in Computer Science, Sec. Human-Media Interaction, Volume 7 - 2025, https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomp.2025.1575202.
- Zhang, Q., Barthet, M., Xambó, A.. (2025) From Shape to Music: Contour-Conditioned Symbolic Music Generation". Proceedings of the International Conference on Technologies for Music Notation and Representation (TENOR 2025). Central Conservatory of Music Beijing, Beijing, China.
Latest Performances
- (November, 2025) Xambó, A. Sensing the Alice Holt Forest. Web Audio Conference 2025 (2025). Ircam/Mozilla, Paris, France.
- (May 29, 2025) Xambó, A. Sensing the Alice Holt Forest. International Conference of Live Coding (ICLC 2025), Barcelona, Spain.
- (November 30, 2023) Live coding session at I2MT Inaugural Concert. Featuring music works by Juan Martinez Avila, Steve Benford, Craig Vear, John Richards (AKA Dirty Electronics) and special guest Anna Xambó. University of Nottingham, UK.
Latest Other Activities
- (December 10, 2025). Oral Presenter: "Sensing the Forest: A Multidisciplinary Exploration of Sound Data". Turing Seminars, Wills Memorial Building, Jean Golding Institute, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
- (October 28, 2025). Oral Presenter (online): "Sensing the Forest: Exploring Climate Change Through Soundscape Datasets from DIY Streamers at Alice Holt Forest". Freesound Day programme, Barcelona and online. You can register following this link (attendance is free).
- (May 28, 2025). Invited keynote “Liveness as an open work: an ongoing live-coding algorithmic journey” at the International Conference on Live Coding 2025 (ICLC 2025).
Interviews / On the Press
- New (December 17, 2025) Hear Nature Speak through Sound Installations, with Peter Batchelor and Chris Meigh-Andrews - at Alice Holt Forest, Hampshire (Episode 2) produced by Shuoyang Zheng. AHRC Sensing the Forest.
- (October 28, 2025) Empowering women in tech at Queen Mary: the story behind WHEN. In conversation with Katja Ivanova and Anna Xambó Sedó. Interview by Aurélie Leroy. News & Events, School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London. [Video]
- (October 21, 2025) Hear Nature Speak through Sound Installations, A Podcast with Sensing the Forest Artists - at Alice Holt Forest, Hampshire (Episode 1) produced by Shuoyang Zheng. AHRC Sensing the Forest.