HCI + Sound & Music Computing

Technology • Design • Experience

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Latest Blog Posts

Sep 19, 2022: Research Concert at the British Science Festival 2022
Aug 19, 2022: Pauca Sed Matura - Slow Research vs Publish or Perish
Jul 1, 2022: Presence at NIME 2022

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Latest Publications

Xambó, A., Goudarzi, V. (2022) “The Mobile Audience as a Digital Musical Persona in Telematic Performance” [PDF] [PubPub]. Proceedings of the New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME ’22). Waipapa Taumata Rau, Aotearoa / The University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Xambó, A. (2022) “Virtual Agents in Live Coding: A Review of past, present and future directions”. e-Contact! (online journal). [PUBLISHED] [PREPRINT]
Roma, G., Xambó, A., Green, O., Tremblay, P.A. (2021) A General Framework for Visualization of Sound Collections in Musical Interfaces. (Open Access). Applied Sciences, 11(24):11926. [Companion Website]

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Latest Performances

Forthcoming (November 27, 2022) Xambó, A. A live coding session using MIRLCa as part of a concert around FluCoMa. MusAI conference. Cafe Oto, London, UK.
(September 16, 2022) Xambó, A. "When virtual meets reality". British Science Festival, Manhattan 34 Cellar Bar, Leicester, UK.
(July 6, 2022) Roma, G., Xambó, A. "shreds". Web Audio Conference (WAC '22), Université Côte d'Azur, Cannes, France. [Video extract]

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Latest Other Activities

Forthcoming Live Coding Sonic Creativities, the first special issue on live coding in Organised Sound. Call for submissions is closed. Expected publication date: August 2023.
Forthcoming (November 11, 2022) Presentation at the symposium event Technoscientific Practices of Music; New Technologies, Instruments and Agents, Maijansali, Helsinki Central, Library Oodi, Helsinki, Finland.
(May 27, 2022). Invited talk "Betwixt and Between Sound-Based Music and Sound Design" at Sound Design(ed) Futures: new realities, spaces, technologies. Online & Université Gustave Eiffel, Champs-sur-Marne, France. [Video]

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Interviews / On the Press

Interview by Jacob Hart (July 7, 2022) about my practice, approach, and experiences using FluCoMa tools or similar technologies (machine learning, signal decomposition, audio descriptors) on SuperCollider. Episode 6 of FluCoMa Podcast.
Book endorsement of "The Body in Sound, Music and Performance Studies in Audio and Sonic Arts" (July 20, 2022). Edited By Linda O Keeffe, Isabel Nogueira. Focal Press / Routledge.
Review of Dirty Dialogues by Emily Pothast (2021 Rewind, The Wire 455, January 2022). About our live album "Dirty Dialogues" performed by Dirty Electronics Ensemble, Jon.Ogara and Anna Xambó.

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