Publications

Anna Xambó presenting at the Web Audio Conference 2019, December 2019. Photo by Shreejay Shrestha.

Research Profiles

Books / Edited Books

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Xambó, A., Martín, S.R., Roma, G. (eds.) (2019). Proceedings of the International Web Audio Conference. NTNU. ISSN: 2663-5844.
Queiroz, M. and Xambó, A. (eds.) (2019) Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. UFRGS. ISSN 2220-4806.
Xambó, A. (2004). Herramientas De Diseño Digital / Digital Design Tools [ACM DL] [Amazon] [AbeBooks.co.uk]. Madrid: Anaya-Multimedia. ISBN 8441516979. 1500 copies sold!

Book Chapters

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Støckert, R., Bergsland, A., Xambó, A. (2020). “The Notion of Presence in a Telematic Cross-Disciplinary Program for Music, Communication and Technology”. In Eiksund, Ø. J., Angelo, E., Knigge, J. (eds.) Music Technology in Education – Channeling and Challenging Perspectives. (Open Access). Cappelen Damm Akademisk, Oslo. pp. 77–101.
Xambó, A., Font, F., Fazekas, G. and Barthet, M. (2019) “Leveraging Online Audio Commons Content For Media Production” [PUBLISHED] [AAM] [Companion Website]. In Michael Filimowicz (ed.) Foundations in Sound Design for Linear Media: An Interdisciplinary Approach, Routledge. pp. 248-282. ISBN 978-1-138-09396-6.
Xambó, A. (2017). “Embodied Music Interaction: Creative Design Synergies Between Music Performance and HCI” [PUBLISHED] [AAM]. In Price, S. and Broadhurst, S. (eds.) Digital Bodies: Creativity and Technology in the Arts and Humanities. Palgrave Macmillan, London. pp. 207-220. ISBN 978-1-349-95241-0.
Xambó, A., Laney, R., Dobbyn, C. and Jordà, S. (2013). “Video Analysis for Evaluating Music Interaction: Musical Tabletops” [PUBLISHED] [PREPRINT]. In Holland, S., Wilkie, K., Mulholland, P. and Seago, A. (eds.) Music and Human-Computer Interaction. Springer, London. pp. 241–258. ISBN 978-1-447-12990-5.

Journal Special Issues

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Xambó, A., Roma, G., Magnusson, T. (eds.) (2023). Special Issue on Live Coding Sonic Creativities [PUBLISHED]. Organised Sound. 28(2).
Xambó, A., Martín, S. R., Roma, G. (eds.) (2020). JAES Special Issue on Web Audio [PUBLISHED]. Journal of Audio Engineering Society, 68(10). You can read our guest editors’ note here.

Journal Articles

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Jawad, K., Xambó, A. (2024) “Feminist HCI and narratives of design semantics in DIY music hardware”. Frontiers in Communication. 8:1345124 (Open Access).
Xambó, A. (2023). Discovering Creative Commons Sounds in Live Coding. Organised Sound (Open Access). 28(2): 276–289.
Xambó, A. (2022) “Virtual Agents in Live Coding: A Review of past, present and future directions”. [PUBLISHED] [PREPRINT]. eContact!, 21.1. Online journal.
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., Støckert, R., Jensenius, A.R. and Saue, S. (2020). “Learning to Code through Web Audio: A Team-Based Learning Approach”. [PUBLISHED] [AAM]. Journal of Audio Engineering Society, 68(10), pp. 727-737. Special Issue on Web Audio.
Xambó, A., Lerch, A. and Freeman, J. (2019) “Music Information Retrieval in Live Coding: A Theoretical Framework” (Open Access) [PUBLISHED] [AAM]. Computer Music Journal, 42(4), Winter 2018, pp. 9-25.
Roma, G., Xambó, A. and Freeman, J. (2018). “User-independent Accelerometer Gesture Recognition for Participatory Mobile Music” [PUBLISHED] [AAM]. Journal of Audio Engineering Society, 66(6), pp. 430-438.
Xambó, A., Roma, G., Shah, P., Tsuchiya, T., Freeman, J. and Magerko, B. (2018). “Turn-taking and Online Chatting in Co-located and Remote Collaborative Music Live Coding” [PUBLISHED] [AAM]. Journal of Audio Engineering Society, 66(4), pp. 253–256.
Xambó, A., Hornecker, E., Marshall, P., Jordà, S., Dobbyn, C. and Laney, R. (2017). “Exploring Social Interaction with a Tangible Music Interface” [PUBLISHED] [AAM]. Interacting with Computers, 29:2, pp. 248-270.
Jewitt, C., Xambó, A. and Price, S. (2017). “Exploring Methodological Innovation in the Social Sciences: The Body in Digital Environments and the Arts” (Open Access) [PUBLISHED] [ONLINE VERSION]. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 20:1, pp. 105-120.
Jewitt, C., Price, S., Xambó, A. (2017). “Conceptualising and Researching the Body in Digital Contexts: Towards New Methodological Conversations across the Arts and Social Sciences” [PUBLISHED]. Qualitative Research, 17:1, pp. 37-53.
Xambó, A., Hornecker, E., Marshall, P., Jordà, S., Dobbyn, C. and Laney, R. (2013). “Let’s Jam the Reactable: Peer Learning During Musical Improvisation with a Tabletop Tangible Interface” [PUBLISHED] [AAM] [Appendices and Supplements]. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 20(6), pp. 36:1–36:34.
Bogdanov, D., Haro, M., Fuhrmann, F., Xambó, A., Gómez, E. and Herrera, P. (2013). “Semantic Audio Content-based Music Recommendation and Visualization Based on User Preference Examples” [PUBLISHED] [AAM]. Information Processing & Management, 49(1), pp. 13–33.

Conference Papers

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Zheng, S., Del Sette, B.M., Saitis, C., Xambó, A., Bryan-Kinns, N. (2024) “Building Sketch-to-Sound Mapping with Unsupervised Feature Extraction and Interactive Machine Learning”. In Proceedings of the New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 24). Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Champlin, A., Chicau, J., Corfiel, M., Knotts, S., Marie, M., Saladino, I., Xambó, A. (2023) “LivecoderA Community Report” (Community Report Paper). In 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]. In Proceedings of the New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME ’22). Waipapa Taumata Rau, Aotearoa / The University of Auckland, New Zealand. [Video]
Xambó, A., Roma, G., Roig, S., Solaz, E. (2021) “Live Coding with the Cloud and a Virtual Agent”. In Proceedings of the New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME ’21). Shanghai, China. [Video] [Poster]
Xambó, A., Roma, G. (2020) “Performing Audiences: Composition Strategies for Network Music using Mobile Phones”. Proceedings of the New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME ’20). Birmingham, UK. pp. 55-60. [Poster] [iPoster]
Jawad, K., Xambó, A. (2020) “How to Talk of Music Technology: An Interview Analysis Study of Live Interfaces for Music Performance among Expert Women”. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Live Interfaces (ICLI 2020). Trondheim, Norway. pp. 41-47. [Video]
Xambó, A., Støckert, R., Jensenius, A.R. and Saue, S. (2019) “Facilitating Team-Based Programming Learning with Web Audio”. In Proceedings of the Web Audio Conference 2019 (WAC ’19). Trondheim, Norway. pp. 2–7. WAC 2019 Best Paper Award. [Video]
Xambó, A., Saue, S., Jensenius, A.R., Støckert, R. and Brandtsegg, Ø. (2019) “NIME Prototyping in Teams: A Participatory Approach to Teaching Physical Computing”. In Proceedings of the New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME ’19). Porto Alegre, Brazil. pp. 216–221.
Roma, G., Xambó, A., Green, O., Tremblay, P.A. (2018) “A Javascript Library for Flexible Visualization of Audio Descriptors”. In Proceedings of the Web Audio Conference (WAC ‘18). Berlin, Germany. [Video]
Pauwels, J., Xambó, A., Roma, G., Barthet, M. Fazekas, G. (2018) “Exploring Real-time Visualisations to Support Chord Learning with a Large Music Collection”. In Proceedings of the Web Audio Conference (WAC ‘18). Berlin, Germany. [Video]
Xambó, A., Pauwels, J., Roma, G., Barthet, M. Fazekas, G. (2018) “Jam with Jamendo: Querying a Large Music Collection by Chords from a Learner’s Perspective”. In Proceedings of Audio Mostly 2018: Sound in Immersion and Emotion (AM ’18). Wrexham, United Kingdom.
Xambó, A. (2018) “Who Are the Women Authors in NIME? - Improving Gender Balance in NIME Research”. In Proceedings of the New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME ’18). Blacksburg, Virginia, USA. pp. 174-177. Check the online public directory of WiNIME here!
Xambó, A., Roma, G., Lerch, A., Barthet, M., Fakekas, G. (2018) “Live Repurposing of Sounds: MIR Explorations with Personal and Crowdsourced Databases”. In Proceedings of the New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME ’18). Blacksburg, Virginia, USA. pp. 364-369.
Weisling, A., Xambó, A., Olowe, I., Barthet, M. (2018) “Surveying the Compositional and Performance Practices of Audiovisual Practitioners”. In Proceedings of the New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME ’18). Blacksburg, Virginia, USA. pp. 344-345.
Xambó, A., Shah, P., Roma, G., Freeman, J., Magerko, B. (2017) “Turn-taking and Chatting in Collaborative Music Live Coding”. In Proceedings of the Audio Mostly 2017 Conference. London. Nominee for Best Paper Award.
Roma, G., Xambó, A., Freeman, J. (2017) “Handwaving: Gesture Recognition for Participatory Mobile Music”. In Proceedings of the Audio Mostly 2017 Conference. London.
Roma, G., Xambó, A., Freeman, J. (2017) “Loop-aware Audio Recording for the Web”. In Proceedings of the Web Audio Conference 2017. London.
Xambó, A., Drozda, B., Weisling, A., Magerko, B., Huet, M., Gasque, T., Freeman, J. (2017) “Experience and Ownership with a Tangible Computational Music Installation for Informal Learning”. In Proceedings of the Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction Conference (TEI ’17). Yokohama, Japan. pp. 351–360.
Moore, R., Edwards, D., Freeman, J., Magerko, B., McKlin, T., Xambó, A. (2016). “EarSketch: An Authentic, STEAM-Based Approach to Computing Education”. In Proceedings of the 2016 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Expo. New Orleans, Louisiana.
Freeman, J., Magerko, B., Edwards, D., Miller, M., Moore, R., Xambó, A. (2016). “Using EarSketch to Broaden Participation in Computing and Music”. In Proceedings of the 13th Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC 2016). Hamburg, Germany. pp. 156–163.
Xambó, A., Freeman, J., Magerko, B., Shah, P. (2016). “Challenges and New Directions for Collaborative Live Coding in the Classroom”. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Live Interfaces (ICLI 2016). Brighton, UK. pp. 65-73.
Xambó, A., Roma, G., Laney, R., Dobbyn, C. and Jordà, S. (2014). “SoundXY4: Supporting Tabletop Collaboration and Awareness with Ambisonics Spatialisation”. In Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression 2014 (NIME ’14). London. pp. 249–252.
Bogdanov, D., Haro, M., Fuhrmann, F., Xambó, A., Gómez, E. and Herrera, P. (2013). “A Content-based System for Music Recommendation and Visualization of User Preferences Working on Semantic Notions”. In IEEE 9th International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI ’13). Madrid. pp. 249–252.
Roma, G.; Xambó, A.; Herrera, P. and Laney, R. (2012). “Factors in Human Recognition of Timbre Lexicons Generated by Data Clustering”. In Proceedings of the 9th Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC 2012). Copenhagen, Denmark. pp. 23–30.
Xambó, A., Laney, R., Dobbyn, C. and Jordà, S. (2011). “Multi-touch Interaction Principles for Collaborative Real-time Music Activities: Towards a Pattern Language”. In Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC ’11). Huddersffeld, UK. pp. 403–406.
Xambó, A., Laney, R. and Dobbyn, C. (2011). “TOUCHtr4ck: Democratic Collaborative Music”. In Proceedings of the Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction Conference (TEI ’11). Funchal, Madeira. pp. 309–312.
Milne, A. J.; Xambó, A.; Laney, R.; Sharp, D. B.; Prechtl, A. and Holland, S. (2011). “Hex Player — A Virtual Musical Controller”. In Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME ’11). Oslo, Norway. pp. 244–247.
Laney, R., Dobbyn, C., Xambó, A., Schirosa, M., Miell, D., Littleton, K. and Dalton, N. (2010). “Issues and Techniques for Collaborative Music Making on Multi-touch Surfaces”. In Proceedings of the 7th Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC 2010). Barcelona. pp. 146–153.
Haro, M.; Xambó, A.; Fuhrmann, F.; Bogdanov, D.; Gómez, E. and Herrera, P. (2010). “The Musical Avatar: A Visualization of Musical Preferences by Means of Audio Content Description”. In Proceedings of the 5th Audio Mostly Conference (AM ’10). Piteå, Sweden.
Roma, G. and Xambó, A. (2008). “A Tabletop Waveform Editor for Live Performance”. In Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME ’08). Genoa, Italy.

Abstracts with Proceedings

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Goudarzi, V., Xambó, A. (2022) “Ear to Waipapa Taumata Rau”. In Proceedings of the New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME ’22). Waipapa Taumata Rau, Aotearoa / The University of Auckland, New Zealand. [Video]
Roma, G., Xambó, A. (2022) “shreds”. In Proceedings of the Web Audio Conference 2022 (WAC ‘22). Cannes, France.
Xambó, A. (2021) “Live Coding with Crowdsourced Sounds and A Virtual Agent Companion”. In Proceedings of the Web Audio Conference 2021 (WAC ‘21). Barcelona, Spain. [Video 1] [Video 2]
Xambó, A. (2021) “A Live Coding Session With the Cloud and a Virtual Agent”. In Proceedings of the New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME ’21). Shanghai, China. [Video]
Brandtsegg, Ø., Xambó, A., Engum, T., Bergsland, A., Waadeland, C.H. (2019). “Trondheim EMP Repository processing”. In Proceedings of the Web Audio Conference 2019 (WAC ‘19). Trondheim, Norway. pp. 161–162. [Video]
Skach, S., Xambó, A., Turchet, L., Stolfi, A., Stewart, B., Barthet, M. (2018). “Embodied Interactions with E-Textiles and the Internet of Sounds for Performing Arts”. In Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI ’18). Stockholm, Sweden. pp. 80–87.
Weisling, A., Xambó, A. (2018). “Beacon: Exploring Physicality in Digital Performance”. In Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI ’18). Stockholm, Sweden. pp. 586–591.
Xambó, A., Roma, G. (2017). “Hyperconnected Action Painting”. In Proceedings of the Web Audio Conference 2017. London, UK. [Video]
Tsuchiya, T., Xambó, A., Freeman, J. (2016). “Adapting DAW-driven Musical Language to Live Coding: A Case Study in EarSketch”. In Late-Breaking Demo of the Second International Conference on Live Coding (ICLC ’16). Hamilton, Canada.
Xambó, A., Lerch, A., Freeman, J. (2016). “Learning to Code through MIR”. In Extended Abstracts for the Late-Breaking Demo Session of the 17th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2016). New York.
Roma, G., Xambó, A., Freeman, J. (2016). “Do the Buzzer Shake”. In International Conference on Live Interfaces (ICLI 2016). Brighton, UK. pp. 315-316. [Video]
Freeman, J., Magerko, B., Edwards, D., Moore, R., McKlin, T., Xambó, A. (2015). “EarSketch: A STEAM Approach to Broadening Participation in Computer Science Principles”. In Proceedings of the IEEE Research in Equity and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology (RESPECT ’15). Charlo e, NC. pp. 109–110.
Xambó, A., Jewitt, C., and Price, S. (2014). “Towards an Integrated Methodological Framework for Understanding Embodiment in HCI”. In Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’14). Toronto. pp. 1411–1416.

Dissertation

Xambó, A. (2015). “Tabletop Tangible Interfaces for Music Performance: Design and Evaluation”. PhD thesis. The Open University.

Position & Workshop Papers

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Zheng, S., Xambó, A., Bryan-Kinns, N. (2024) “A Mapping Strategy for Interacting with Latent Audio Synthesis Using Artistic Materials”. 2nd international workshop on eXplainable AI for the Arts (XAIxArts) at the ACM Creativity and Cognition Conference.
Xambó, A., Roma, G., Shah, P., Freeman, J., Magerko, B. (2017) “Computational Challenges of Co-creation in Collaborative Music Live Coding: An Outline”. 2017 Co-Creation Workshop at the International Conference on Computational Creativity. Atlanta, GA, USA.
Xambó, A., Laney, R., Dobbyn, C., Jordà, S. (September 11, 2012). “Towards a Taxonomy for Video Analysis on Collaborative Musical Tabletops”. In BCS HCI 2012 Workshop on Video Analysis Techniques for HCI. Birmingham, UK.
Xambó, A., Laney, R., Dobbyn, C., Jordà, S. (July 4, 2011). “Collaborative Music Interaction on Tabletops: An HCI Approach”. In BCS HCI 2011 Workshop on When Words Fail: What can Music Interaction tell us about HCI?. Newcastle Upon Tyne.

Reports & Working Papers

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Xambó, A. (2008). “Interfaces for Sketching Musical Compositions”. Unpublished master’s thesis. UPF.
Xambó, A., Martos, E. (2004). “Crossmedia Infantil: Estudi sobre les noves tecnologies i la comunicació audiovisual a l’escola infantil i primària (Report of New Technologies and Audiovisual Communication in Primary Education)” [REPORT] [Appendices and Supplements]. Unpublished report. Fundació Caixa de Sabadell with the support of UB.

Book Reviews and Endorsements

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(July 20, 2022). Book Endorsement of “The Body in Sound, Music and Performance Studies in Audio and Sonic Arts. Edited By Linda O Keeffe, Isabel Nogueira. Focal Press / Routledge.”
(December 22, 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.

Other

Posters: A selection of conference posters in PDF format.
Blog Posts: A list of more than 90 blog posts classified under the categories of AI and music, music technology/SMC, HCI, design, and research methods.