HCI + Sound & Music Computing

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Latest Blog Posts

Dec 31, 2022: Reflecting on 2022
Nov 21, 2022: Walk to Think
Sep 19, 2022: Research Concert at the British Science Festival 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

(November 27, 2022) Xambó, A. A live coding session using MIRLCa at "Peforming Critical AI I: feedback, noise, corpus, code". 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.
(December 13, 2022) Panellist of the panel "Music creation" at the event "Challenges and Opportunities in Music Tech - Open Debate", Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain / online.
(December 8, 2022) Invited lecture/workshop "Machine listening and machine learning using MIRLC/a" at the module "Computer Programming for Musicians" led by Erik Nyström, Department of Performing Arts, School of Communication and Creativity, City, University of London, UK.

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Interviews / On the Press

(November 25, 2022) Exposition of my live-coding work published in the book: Blackwell, A.F., Cocker, E., Cox, G., McLean, A., Magnusson, T. (2022) Live Coding: A User's Manual", The MIT Press, pp. 122-124.
(July 7, 2022) Interview by Jacob Hart about my practice, approach, and experiences using FluCoMa tools or similar technologies (machine learning, signal decomposition, audio descriptors) on SuperCollider. Episode 6 of the FluCoMa Podcast.
(January, 2022) 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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