HCI + Sound & Music Computing

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A Random Blog Post 2006-2022

Latest Blog Posts

Apr 16, 2023: 100 Blog Posts
Dec 31, 2022: Reflecting on 2022
Nov 21, 2022: Walk to Think

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Latest Publications

Forthcoming Xambó, A. (2023) “Discovering Creative Commons Sounds in Live Coding”. Organised Sound. 28(2). (In Press).
Champlin, A., Chicau, J., Corfiel, M., Knotts, S., Marie, M., Saladino, I., Xambó, A. (2023) “LivecoderA Community Report” (Community Report Paper). Proceedings of the International Conference of Live Coding (ICLC 2023). Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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.

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Latest Performances

New Forthcoming (June 14, 2023) Xambó, A. "Ceci n'est pas une usine". +RAIN Film Fest, Universitat Pompeu Fabra/Sonar+D, Barcelona, Spain.
(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.

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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.
New Forthcoming (June 7, 2023). Guest talk About NIME, NIMEness, and Speculative Futures. Creative Technologies II, Creative Technologies Master's Program, Film Universität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf, Potsdam, Germany.
(March 3, 2023). Guest talk about NIMEs as part of the workshop Introduction to Making Digital Music Instruments. LEADD:NG. University of Nottingham.

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Interviews / On the Press

New (May, 2023) How will AI coexist with human music? The future is now. Article by Karma Peiró. Challenges and Opportunities in Music Tech. Music Technology Group, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.
(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.

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