Blog
This is my personal blog written since October 22, 2016, with topics that range from research, to music, to announcements, to resources, to teaching, among others. I also write and co-write for other blogs. If interested, here’s a list of more than 80 blog posts that I’ve been involved in, which are classified under the categories of AI and music, music technology/SMC, HCI, design, and research methods.
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Future Research Leaders Programme Session 6
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Portrait of a woman seated in a boat with a fishing rod. Author: Collins, Tudor Washington, 1898-1970, photographer. License: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en). Image source: https://commons.wikimedia.org -
Future Research Leaders Programme Session 5
Traditional yin and yang with dots (adapted). Author: Klem. License: Public domain. Image source: https://commons.wikimedia.org -
Future Research Leaders Programme Session 4
Water droplets impact water surface. Author: Brocken Inaglory. License: CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en). Image source: https://commons.wikimedia.org -
On the Fly Live Coding Hacklab
Poster on-the-fly: Live Coding Hacklab, January 28-30, 2022 at ZKM | Karlsruhe. Design by Caro Mikalef. -
Future Research Leaders Programme Session 3
Coral reef ecosystem. Author: Jerry Reid. License: Public domain (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain). Image source: https://commons.wikimedia.org -
Reflecting on 2021
Figure 1. Anna Xambó's live set is ready for the algorave concert (hybrid format) at the NIME 2021 conference in Shanghai, China, streaming from Sheffield, UK. -
Future Research Leaders Programme Session 2
Writing a letter with fountain pen. Author: Petar Milošević. License: CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en). Image source: https://commons.wikimedia.org -
Future Research Leaders Programme Session 1
Blue sky. Photo by Anna Xambó. -
Teaching Audio Electronics during COVID: Inventiveness and Opportunities
Figure 1. Anna Xambó setting up an online lab using a GoPro camera (webcam mode) connected to Blackboard Collaborate via Zoom. -
Reflecting on 2020
Figure 1. Anna Xambó live coding at Sound Junction Satellites: Live Coding & 3D Sounds. -
Creative Audio Programming for the Web with Tone.js: An Online Collaborative Workshop
Poster of the workshop on web audio by Anna Xambó. 'Women Who Code' workshop series at the Audio Arts and Acoustics Department, Columbia College Chicago, IL, USA. -
Streaming with liveSHOUT in the Woods
Streaming with liveSHOUT on iPad next to the stream in the ancient woodland of Norfolk Heritage Park. Photo by Anna Xambó. -
Performing Audiences at NIME 2020
Screenshot of the online poster presentation of our paper Performing Audiences during NIME 2020. -
Reflections on Online Publication Ecosystems: Three Case Studies
Diagram that represents the vision of an open publication ecosystem for NIME. Image source: nime2020.bcu.ac.uk -
Live Coding at the Network Music Festival 2020
Setup for the live coding session by Anna Xambó at the Network Music Festival 2020. -
Collaborative/Participatory Music Experiences: A Dialogue Between SMC and HCI
Anna Xambó during the 'making off' of the video-recorded SMC 2020 keynote. -
Network Music Performance During COVID-19 and Beyond: A Quick Review of Available Software
Networks of stars: Northern sky with constellations. Illustration by Vecteezy. -
Becoming a Woman Academic in Music and Audio Technology
Figure 1. Anna Xambó presenting her work at the Erasmus and COST cooperation day at NTNU. Photo by Robin Støckert. -
Future Of The Music Industries
Figure 1. Our panel Future Of The Music Industries. From left to right: Anna Xambó, Joe Lyske, Jesper Skibsby and Nick Breen. Photo by Jonathan Tait. -
Collaborative Music Live Coding
Figure 1. Lightning talk by Anna Xambó at The RAW, Café 1001, London. Photo by Inter/sections. -
Equality, Diversity, Gender in Music Technology
Figure 1. Our panel Equality, Diversity, Gender ready to start at Dokkhuset during the conference Knowing Music - Musical Knowing Cross disciplinary dialogue on epistemologies. -
Improving Gender Balance in NIME Research
This blog post is the web page companion of the paper “Who Are the Women Authors in NIME? - Improving Gender Balance in NIME Research” (Xambó 2018). This paper looks at the underrepresentation of women at the New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) conference and how we can improve the representation of women at NIME. In particular, it focuses on what has been the level of representation of women authors in NIME over the course of the years from 2001 to 2017 and whether there has been any improvement. This blog post highlights the descriptive statistics results to give some context to the directory of WiNIME. The reader is welcomed to explore the full paper to get a deeper sense of the current numbers and potential solutions. The selected bibliography used in this paper is also available online.
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How to Represent the Umami Taste in Digital Performance?
Figure 1. A participatory digital painting resulted from the piece Hyperconnected Action Painting (Anna Xambó & Gerard Roma) and inspired by Jackson Pollock's action painting technique. -
Girl Geeks
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How Many Music Technology Research Centers Are There in the World?
This blog post is an ongoing research that attempts to answer the question of how many music technology research centers do exist around the world, referring to research centers that specialize in technologies applied to music and sound. The final aim is to display the research centers in a map and summarize the main lines of research for each center.
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The top 10 Most-cited Papers in Music Technology
What is the most-cited paper in music technology? A few weeks ago I informally posed this question in social media (Twitter, Facebook). A nice conversation followed up the question, which I will summarize here.
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TUIs and Tabletops
From left to right, and top to bottom: TuneTable (© Georgia Tech), SoundXY4 (© Anna Xambó), Soundscape Turntablism (© Anna Xambó and Gerard Roma), SoundXY2 (© Anna Xambó), TouchTR4CK (© Anna Xambó), SoundscapeDJ (© Anna Xambó and Gerard Roma), The Reactable (© Reactable Systems). -
Women in Music Tech
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My New Website on Jekyll!
I have a new website! I am trying Jekyll for the first time. The content from my previous website has been migrated and updated. Now it should read better on mobile devices. Here is a useful explanation on the benefits of using Jekyll and GitHub to create and host a personal website.