HCI + Sound & Music Computing

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Latest Blog Posts

Apr 6, 2022: Future Research Leaders Programme Session 6
Apr 6, 2022: Future Research Leaders Programme Session 5
Feb 10, 2022: Future Research Leaders Programme Session 4

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Latest Publications

Forthcoming Xambó, A., Goudarzi, V. (Accepted) “The Mobile Audience as a Digital Musical Persona in Telematic Performance”. Proceedings of the New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME ’22). Waipapa Taumata Rau, Aotearoa / The University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Forthcoming Xambó, A. (Accepted) “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]

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Latest Performances

Forthcoming (July 6-8, 2022) Roma, G., Xambó, A. "shreds". Web Audio Conference (WAC '22), Université Côte d'Azur, Cannes, France.
Forthcoming (June 21, 2022) Roma, G., Xambó, A. "shreds". Online Performance. International Conference on Live Interfaces (ICLI '22), Lisboa, Portugal.
Forthcoming (May 19, 2022) Goudarzi, V., Xambó, A. "Ear to Waipapa Taumata Rau". NIME 2022 Online Performance Premiere. [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.
Forthcoming (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.
(May 3, 2022). External PhD examiner for Iván Paz. PhD title: "On-the-fly Synthesizer Programming with Rule Learning". PhD degree in Computing, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech, Barcelona, Spain.

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Interviews / On the Press

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.
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.

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