HCI + Sound & Music Computing

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Latest Blog Posts

Jan 19, 2022: Future Research Leaders Programme Session 3
Dec 31, 2021: Reflecting on 2021
Dec 27, 2021: Future Research Leaders Programme Session 2

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Latest Publications

Forthcoming Xambó, A. (Submitted) “Virtual Agents in Live Coding: A Short Review”. e-Contact! (online journal). [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]
Xambó, A. (2021) “Book Review: Thor Magnusson, Sonic Writing: Technologies of Material, Symbolic, and Signal Inscriptions. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. ISBN: 9781501313851. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5040/9781501313899”. Organised Sound, 26:3, pp. 430–433.

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Latest Performances

(November 21, 2021). Xambó, A, Goudarzi, V. "immerse in the lake". Online performance. Jefferson Park EXP. Chicago, IL, USA. [Video]
(November 10, 2021). Magnets (live coding piece) at the "Concert PACE 1 Live Music from MTI2. Works by Simon Emmerson, Anna Xambó Sedó, John Richards, and Leigh Landy". EMS 2021. Leicester, UK. [Video] [Audio (Rehearsal)]
(September 24, 2021). Goudarzi, V., Xambó, A. "Livesourcing: Audience Participation in a Live Coding Performance". Online performance. Ear Taxi Festival. Chicago, IL, USA. [Video]

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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 open. Submission deadline: 15 September 2022. Webpage: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/organised-sound/call-live-coding-sonic-creativities
(October 27, 2021). External PhD examiner for Joaquín Roberto Díaz Durán. PhD title: "Interfaz Cíborg: Dispositivo interactivo para reflexionar la relación arte, tecnología y cuerpo en la performance". PhD programme: Programa de Doctorado en Investigación en Humanidades, Artes y Educación. Departamento de Arte. Facultad de Bellas Artes de Cuenca. Universidad de Castilla - La Mancha, Spain.
(October 1, 2021). Dirty Electronics Ensemble, Jon.Ogara, and Anna Xambó. Dirty Dialogues. [FLAC/MP3 files]. Chicago (IL, USA): pan y rosas discos.

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Interviews / On the Press

Interview by Anna Jakobsson about the WoNoMute organisation. This interview is part of the book: Farnsworth, B., Jakobsson, A., Massera, V. (2020) "Taking the Temperature: Crisis, Curating, and Musical Diversity", OnCurating.org, Zurich, pp. 114-119.
New Erasmus Cooperation with Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf in Germany by Andrea Hegdahl Tiltnes. About our new Erasmus cooperation between MA Creative Technologies (Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf) and our master in Music, Communication and Technology (NTNU / UiO) (28.06.2019, NTNU Nyheter). Blog post.
Neue Erasmus Partnerschaft mit der NTNU in Norwegen by Prof. Dr. Angela Brennecke. About our new Erasmus cooperation between MA Creative Technologies (Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf) and our master in Music, Communication and Technology (NTNU / UiO) (24.06.2019, FilmUniversitaet.de). Blog post.

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