Other Activities

2024

New (April 12, 2024). Participation in the Academic Panel on The Development and Application of AI in Music". Hosted by ARU’s Dr. Sven-Amin Lembke. Panelists: Dr Anna Xambo Sedo, Dr Geraint A. Wiggins, Dr Oded Ben-Tal and Dr Robin Laney. Sound of Tomorrow, Anglia Ruskin University's Helmore Recital Hall, Cambridge, UK.

(March 15, 2024). Launch of the EECS Women in Higher Education Network (WHEN), Queen Mary University of London. London, UK.

(March 13, 2024). Seminar talk "Collaborative, Participatory and Practice-based Research Methods for Sound and Music Computing". CogSci seminar. Queen Mary University of London. London, UK.

(February 22, 2024). Seminar talk "Sound and Music Computing Goes Wild: From Communities to Ecosystems". AIM Forum. Centre for Digital Music. Queen Mary University of London. London, UK.

(January 24, 2024). Seminar talk "Reflections on the use of CC sounds in creative computing". Research Forum. CeReNeM: Centre for Research in New Music. University of Huddersfield. Huddersfield, UK.

Jawad, K., Xambó, A. (2024) “Feminist HCI and narratives of design semantics in DIY music hardware”. Frontiers in Communication. Volume 8 (Open Access).

2023

• (December 15-16, 2023). Panellist of the panels "AI and Ethics" and "AI in Performance" at the symposium "AI in Music (AINMUSIC): Agency, Performance, Production and Perception", University of Music Trossingen/KISS project, Trossingen, Germany / online.
• (December 1, 2023). Participation in the compilation LOLTRAX001 with the track mnnw (extract). LOL Editions. This compilation is curated by Joe Beedles and Guillaume Dujat. Recommended donation £8. Limited Edition Cassette £12. All proceeds donated to MIND (UK based mental health charity).
• Jury Member of the Generative Music Prize / Prix Musique Generative. The jury members are Agoria, Greg Beller, Berrak Nil Boya, Andrea Faroppa, Georg Hajdu, Holly Herndon, Philippe Langlois, Frank Madlener, Miller Puckette and Anna Xambó. IRCAM Forum, Paris, France.
• (November 30, 2023) Live coding session at I2MT Inaugural Concert. Featuring music works by Juan Martinez Avila, Steve Benford, Craig Vear, John Richards (AKA Dirty Electronics) and special guest Anna Xambó. University of Nottingham, UK.
• (November 14, 2023). Keynote From NIME to NISE: Rethinking the design and evaluation of musical interfaces. Audio Developer Conference 2023 (ADC23), London, UK.
• (October 25, 2023). Seminar talk "Sensing the Forest: In the search for epistemological cross-pollination between forest research, HCI and SMC". Online CHIME Seminar with Chris Nash and Anna Xambó. CHIME Seminar, Online.
• Live Coding Sonic Creativities, the first special issue on live coding in Organised Sound. Call for submissions is closed. Volume 28 - Issue 2 - August 2023.
• (September 22, 2023). The new website of our AHRC-funded project Sensing the Forest has been launched at sensingtheforest.github.io!.
• (June 14, 2023) Xambó, A. "Ceci n'est pas une usine". +RAIN Film Fest, Universitat Pompeu Fabra/Sonar+D, Barcelona, Spain.
• (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.
• (February 11, 2023) New solo album release "detuning a tuning". Carpal Tunnel.
• (February 9, 2023). External PhD examiner for António Ramires. PhD thesis title: "Automatic Characterization and Generation of Music Loops and Instrument Samples for Electronic Music Production". PhD programme: Horizon 2020 MIP-Frontiers. Music Technology Group, Department of Information and Communication Technologies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.

2022

• (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.
• (November 27, 2022) Xambó, A. A live coding session using MIRLCa at "Performing Critical AI I: feedback, noise, corpus, code". MusAI conference, Cafe OTO, London, UK.
• (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.
• (November 11, 2022). Invited talk "HCI meets AI in Live Coding: A Practitioner's Perspective" at Symposium Technoscientific Practices of Music; New Technologies, Instruments and Agents. Oodi, Helsinki, Finland. [Video]
• (October 26, 2022). Invited talk (online) "Designing networked algorithmic music performances - Creative coding as practice-led research" at Computational Music for All. GTCMT, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA, USA.
• (October-November 2022) Research sabbatical.
• (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]
• (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.
• Interview by Jacob Hart (July 7, 2022) 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.
• (June 24, 2022) External Master’s thesis examiner for Stephen Gardener, Master thesis title: ”The Algorithmic Composition Explorer”. Master’s programme: Music, Communication and Technology. Department of Musicology, University of Oslo, Norway.
• (June 21, 2022) Roma, G., Xambó, A. shreds. Online Performance. International Conference on Live Interfaces (ICLI '22), Lisboa, Portugal. [Video]
• (June 11, 2022) Goudarzi, V., Xambó, A. immerse in the lake 2.0. Hybrid performance. Symphony Center, Chicago, USA.
• (May 27, 2022). Invited talk (online) "Betwixt and Between Sound-Based Music and Sound Design" at Sound Design(ed) Futures: new realities, spaces, technologies. Université Gustave Eiffel, Champs-sur-Marne, France. [Video]
• Goudarzi, V., Xambó, A. Ear to Waipapa Taumata Rau". NIME 2022 Online Performance Premiere. May 19, 2022. Presented at NIME 2022 on June 29, 2022. [Video]
• (May 3, 2022). External PhD examiner for Iván Paz. PhD thesis title: "On-the-fly Synthesizer Programming with Rule Learning". PhD degree in Computing, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech, Barcelona, Spain.
• (April 25, 2022). Invited talk "Data-Driven Sound-Based Music" at the virtual seminar series music-data at the University of York, an online seminar series part of the AHRC funded research network Datasounds, datasets and datasense: Unboxing the hidden layers between musical data, knowledge and creativity. [Video]
• (March 19, 2022) Make Noise Not War (live coding session) at Algorave 10th Birthday Party. March 19, 2022. [Video]
• (March 11, 2022) Detuning a Tuning (live coding piece) at BEAST @ Centrala: Anna Xambó Sedó, Milad K. Mardakheh, Centrala, Birmingham, UK.
• (March 8, 2022) Algonoise feat. Olympe de Gauges (live coding session) at LIVECODERA a global live coding community gathering on International Women's Day. Online event. [Video]
• (February 24, 2022). Annual PhD review for Robin Foster. De Montfort University, Leicester, UK.
• (January 29-30, 2022). Mentor at on-the-fly: Live Coding Hacklab at ZKM | Karlsruhe.

2021

• (November 21, 2021) Xambó, A, Goudarzi, V. "immerse in the lake". Online performance. Jefferson Park EXP. Chicago, IL, USA. [Video]
• ( November 10, 2021) Magnets (live coding piece) at the "Concert PACE 1 Live Music from MTI2. Works by Simon Emmerson, Anna Xambó Sedó, John Richards, and Leigh Landy". EMS 2021. Leicester, UK. [Video] [Audio (Rehearsal)]
• (October 27, 2021). External PhD examiner for Joaquín Roberto Díaz Durán. PhD thesis title: "Interfaz Cíborg - Dispositivo interactivo para reflexionar la relación Arte, tecnología y cuerpo en la performance". PhD programme: Programa de Doctorado en Investigación en Humanidades, Artes y Educación. Departamento de arte. Facultad de Bellas Artes de Cuenca. Universidad de Castilla - La Mancha, Spain.
• (October 1, 2021). Dirty Electronics Ensemble, Jon.Ogara, and Anna Xambó. Dirty Dialogues. [FLAC/MP3 files]. Chicago (IL, USA): pan y rosas discos.
• (September 24, 2021) Goudarzi, V., Xambó, A. "Livesourcing: Audience Participation in a Live Coding Performance". Online performance. Ear Taxi Festival. Chicago, IL, USA. [Video]
• (September 24, 2021). Future Research Leaders 2021/22 Programme accolade. DMU, Leicester, UK.
• (September 14, 2021). External PhD examiner for Jack Armitage. PhD title: "Subtlety and Detail in Digital Musical Instrument Design". PhD programme: Media & Arts Technologies, Queen Mary University of London, UK.
• (September 9, 2021). Published a new blog post on the WAC 2021 keynote and two performances.
• (August/September, 2023) Testimonial of how I am coping with and using AI in my musical practice, published in the article AI and the Future of Human Made Music. Introduction and Interviews by Jonas Vognsen. Perfect Sound Forever online music magazine.
• (July 6, 2021) Live Coding with Crowdsourced Sounds and a Virtual Agent Companion". WAC 2021. Online event. Barcelona, Spain. [Video1] [Video2]
• (July 5, 2021). Keynote speaker at the Web Audio Conference 2021. WAC 2021. Online event. Barcelona, Spain. [Video]
• (June 19, 2021). Jawad, K. and Xambó, A. Presentation of WoNoMute at Féminisme - Musique - Technologie / Rencontre ManiFeste-2021. Hybrid event. IRCAM / Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, Paris, France. [Video] [Leaflet]
• (June 17, 2021) "A Live Coding Session With the Cloud and a Virtual Agent"]. *NIME 2021*. Online event. Shanghai, China. [Video]
• (June 14, 2021). Pardue, L., Martinez, J., Xambó, A., Cavdir, D., Almeida, I. and Bin, A. Online workshop "Actions We Can Take to Improve Diversity and Inclusivity at NIME". NIME 2021. Online event. Shanghai, China.
• (May 21, 2021). Xambó, A. Online presentation "Audience engagement in musical performances through on-site and online networks" at University of Vienna. Online event. Vienna, Austria.
• (May 17, 2021) Dirty Electronics Ensemble, Jon.Ogara, and Anna Xambó. Dirty Dialogues. PACE, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. [Video]
• (May 6, 2021) "Sonic Haikus". *ARTIFICIA Festival*. Online Premiere. Recorded from Sheffield, UK.[Video]/li>
• (May 6, 2021). Panel Member at "Session 3: Musical performance & education with AI" with Rafael Ramírez (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), George Waddell (Royal College of Music), Anna Xambó (De Montfort University), Luisa Pereira (New York University), Enric Guaus (Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya), Alia Ahmed Morsi (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) and moderated by Sergio Giraldo (Universitat Pompeu Fabra). ARTIFICIA Festival, Online event. Barcelona, Spain. [Video]
• (April 29, 2021). Online presentation "Insights Into MIRLCAuto: A Virtual Agent for Music Information Retrieval in Live Coding" at the networked series of research colloquiua on Coding Literacy, Practices and Cultures. University of Magdeburg, Germany, and Film University KONRAD WOLF in Potsdam Babelsberg, Germany. [Slides]
• (April 16, 2021). Panel Member at “MusicLab 6: Human-Machine Improvisation” with Stefania Serafin (Aalborg University), Anna Xambó Sedó (De Montfort University), Nanette Nielsen (RITMO) and the performers, Christian Winther and Dag Erik Knedal Andersen, moderated by Alexander Refsum Jensenius (RITMO). RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion. Online event. Oslo, Norway. [Video]
• (February 24, 2021). PhD review (midway assessment) for Sam Topley, PhD programme: DMU/Midlands4Cities, Leicester, UK.
• (February 23, 2021). Online presentation "Live Coding Using Crowdsourced Sounds and a Virtual Agent" at ATLAS Seminar / Colloquium, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA. [Slides]
• (February 21, 2021) "They Are the Robots: a live coding session". *Transnodal TOPLAP*. Streaming from Sheffield, UK. [Video]
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2020

• (December 12, 2020). Live coding session at "Similar Sounds: A Virtual Agent in Live Coding". IKLECTIK. Online event. Streaming from Sheffield, UK.
• (December 2020 - January 2021). Three online workshops entitled: "Performing with a virtual agent: machine learning for live coding". You can register here.
• (November 25, 2020). Online presentation "Music performance with crowdsourced sounds: collaboration by chance" for the master course "MUST5001 Aesthetics and Ideas in the Sonic Arts", DMU, Leicester, UK.
• Joined as a member of the Intersections, Feminism, Technology & Digital Humanities network (IFTe).
• (November 14, 2020). Live coding session at "Sound Junction Satellites: Live Coding & 3-D Sound – Online Live Stream". University of Sheffield Concerts/Algomech. Online event. Streaming from Sheffield, UK.
• (November 6, 2020). Participation in the compilation Compassion Through Algorithms Vol. II with the track Magnets. This compilation is a collaboration between Light Entries and Algorave Sheffield curated by Alex McLean. Recommended donation £8. All proceeds to Young Minds Together.
• (November 14, 2020). Live coding session at "Sound Junction Satellites: Live Coding & 3-D Sound – Online Live Stream". University of Sheffield Concerts/Algomech. Online event. Streaming from Sheffield, UK.
• (October 6, 2020). Online presentation: "“From Tabletop Tangible Interfaces to Virtual Agents in Live Coding: Five Years of Research in Progress". IUPUI Music Tech PhD seminar, Department of Music and Arts Technology, Purdue School of Engineering and Technology, Indiana University—Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN, USA.
• (September 25, 2020). Online workshop "Creative Audio Programming for the Web with Tone.js" for the series "Women who Code", School of Media Arts, Columbia College Chicago, IL, USA. [Slides].
• (September 21, 2020). Online presentation: "Virtual Agents in Live Coding: Preliminary Investigations". Meetup for Women in Arts and Technology, NOTAM, Oslo, Norway. [Slides].
• Schroeder, F., Meireles, M., Mannone, M., Papadomanolaki, M., Brown, N., Stolfi, A., Alarcón, X., Xambó, A. (July 28, 2020). "Performance by FLO (Female Laptop Orchestra)". Physically Distant #2: more online talks on telematic performance. Streaming from Sheffield, UK.
• (July 23, 2020, 11:30-12:30 (GMT+1)). Online poster presentation of our paper: "Performing Audiences: Composition Strategies for Network Music using Mobile Phones" by Xambó, A., Roma, G. NIME ’20. Birmingham, UK.
• (July 21, 2020, 09:00–10:00 / 17:00–18:00 (GMT+1)). Forthcoming workshop: "NIME Publication Ecosystem Workshop" by Jensenius, A.R., McPherson, A., Xambó, A., Martin, C., Armitage, J., Granieri, N., Fiebrink, R., Naveda, L. NIME ’20. Birmingham, UK.
• (June 24, 2020). Published a new blog post on the SMC 2020 keynote including the related bibliography list.
• (16:20 CET, June 24, 2020). Keynote speaker at the SMC 2020 conference: "Collaborative/Participatory Music Experiences: A Dialogue Between SMC and HCI". The live stream can be found here.
• (June 3, 2020). Participation in the compilation In Unison (i.u., Brussels) with the track “Poème Symphonique For Tape Metronome: Variation I”. All proceedings will go to the Black Lives Matter Foundation.
• (June 2, 2020). Published a new blog post on Network Music Performance During COVID-19 and Beyond: A Quick Review of Available Software.
• (May 5, 2020). External assessor, IMV PhD Midway Assessment for Qichao Lan, Department of Musicology, Faculty of Humanities, University of Oslo.
• (March 31, 2020) Awarded with an EPSRC HDI Network Plus Grant - Art, Music, and Culture theme for the project MIRLCAuto: A Virtual Agent for Music Information Retrieval in Live Coding in collaboration with Iklectik, Leicester Hackspace, L'ull cec, Phonos and Music, Technology and Innovation - Institute for Sonic Creativity (MTI^2). More to follow soon!

2019

• (December 17, 2019). Published a new blog post on Becoming a Woman Academic in Music and Audio Technology.
• (December 4, 2019). We won one of the WAC 2019 Best Papers Awards for the paper: "Facilitating Team-Based Programming Learning with Web Audio".
• (November 22, 2019). Talk at NOTAM: Research as Practice / Practice as Research: Real-time Algorithmic Music Experiences and Women in Music Technology. Oslo, Norway.
• (November 16, 2019). MCT4046 Sonification and Sound Design Seminar Series - Video Playlist Launched! Enjoy the lectures!
• (November 4, 2019). Sølvi Ystad: Perceptual Engineering as a Means to Interpret and Manipulate Human Perception. This is the 10th talk of our WoNoMute monthly seminar series. Trondheim & Oslo, Norway.
• (October 22-31, 2019). Teaching of Human Computer Interaction 2nd Edition at the master Music Communication and Technology (NTNU/UiO). Slides are available here.
• (October 15-18, 2019). Teaching of the Physical Computing Workshop 2nd Edition at the master Music Communication and Technology (NTNU/UiO). Slides and code are available here.
• (October 14, 2019). Liz Dobson: Interaction, Agency and The Role of Talk in Music Technology Education (14.10.19). This is the 9th talk of our WoNoMute monthly seminar series. Trondheim & Oslo, Norway.
• (September 23, 2019). Natasha Barrett: Composing Tangible Sounds in Space (23.9.19). This is the 8th talk of our WoNoMute monthly seminar series. Trondheim & Oslo, Norway.
• (August 29, 2019). External MSc examiner for Torgrim Rudland Næss, Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Oslo.
• (June 28, 2019). Viva Voce: Hilmar Thordarson's artistic PhD. Appraisal committee: Professor Rand Steiger (UC San Diego), Jos Zwaanenburg (Amsterdam University of the Arts), Associate Professor Anna Xambó Ph.D. (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, chair of the committee). Arkitekt Christies gate 2, campus Kalvskinnet. Trondheim, Norway.
• Xambó, A. (June 20-21, 2019). Workshop: “Creative Audio Programming for the Web“. Organized by M.A. Creative Technologies. Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF, Potsdam, Germany.
• Xambó, A. (June 20, 2019). Talk: Master in Music, Communication, and Technology (MCT): A master for technological humanists. Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF, Potsdam, Germany.
• (May 6, 2019). Sofia Dahl: Looking at Musical Movements (6.5.19). This is the 7th talk of our WoNoMute monthly seminar series. Trondheim & Oslo, Norway.
• (April 8, 2019). Pamela Z: Works and Processes (8.4.19). This is the 6th talk of our WoNoMute monthly seminar series. Trondheim & Oslo, Norway. This talk will be facilitated by Tone Åse.
• (April 4, 2019). Pamela Z: Voice and Instruments (4.4.19). This talk is organized by the Master's Music, Communication and Technology (UiO/NTNU) in collaboration with WoNoMute and facilitated by Tone Åse.
• (February 25, 2019). Angela Brennecke: What’s (in) your Story?. This is the 5th talk of our WoNoMute monthly seminar series. Trondheim & Oslo, Norway.
• (January 31, 2019). Presentation of the Women Nordic Music Technology (WoNoMute) organization together with Karolina Jawad and Mari Lesteberg. Girls Geek Dinner Trondheim. Music Technology, NTNU.
• (February 4, 2019). Tami Gadir: The Music Technological Body. This is the 4th talk of our WoNoMute monthly seminar series. Trondheim & Oslo, Norway.
• (January 21, 2019). Tone Åse: Voice, Electronics and Improvisation. This is the 3rd talk of our WoNoMute monthly seminar series. Trondheim & Oslo, Norway.
• (January 16, 2019). Musical networks of live coders. Workshop organized by Alo Allik & Anna Xambó. International Conference on Live Coding, Medialab Prado, Madrid, Spain.
• (January 1, 2019). Release of the album: Beacon [EP] (2019) by Anna Weisling and Anna Xambó. Barcelona: Carpal Tunnel.

2018

• (November 26, 2018). Alexandra Murray-Leslie: The Liberation of the Feet. This is the 2nd talk of our WoNoMute monthly seminar series. Trondheim, Norway.
• (November 21, 2018). Panel: Women in Music Technology around the World with Nela Brown (FLO), Magdalena Chudy (FLO), Liz Dobson (YSWN), Ada Mathea Hoel (WoNoMute), Léa Ikkache (WiMT), Tuna Pase (FLO), Franziska Schroeder (FLO), Ariane Stolfi, (Sonora) Sonia Wilkie (FLO) and Anna Xambó (WoNoMute, WiMT). Sonic Arts Research Center, Queen's University Belfast. Belfast, Northern Ireland.
• (November 15, 2018). Panel: Future of the Music Industries with Joe Lyske (chair, MXX), Jesper Skibsby (panelist, WARM), Nick Breen (panelist, Reed Smith) and Anna Xambó (panelist, Associate Professor Music Technology at NTNU). Resonate Music Conference 2018. Barras Art and Design (BAAD), Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
• (October 30, 2018). Miranda Moen: Diversity, Ableism and Technology in Music. This is the first talk of our WoNoMute monthly seminar series. Trondheim, Norway.
• (October 26, 2018). Panel Session 3: Equality, Diversity, Gender with Thomas Hilder (chair), Jill Diana Halstead Hjørnevik (panelist), Sunniva Skjøstad Hovde (panelist), Vivian Anette Lagesen (panelist), and Anna Xambó (panelist). Knowing Music - Musical Knowing Cross disciplinary dialogue on epistemologies. International Music Research School 2018, NTNU. Dokkhuset, Trondheim, Norway.
• Xambó, A. (September 28, 2018). “Challenges and Opportunities of Collaborative Music Live Coding: A Practitioner's Approach". Lightning Talk. The Raw and The Cooked, Inter/sections 2018. Café 1001. London, UK
• Xambó, A. (July 12-13, 2018) “Creative Audio Programming". Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf, Potsdam, Germany. Organized by MA Creative Technologies.
• (July 4, 2018) The Disturbing Discussion about Innovation with Nicolas d'Alessandro (panelist), Tom Mitchell (panelist), Anna Xambó (panelist), and Matthias Strobel (moderator). Wallifornia MusicTech Hackathon. Liège, Belgium.
• Xambó, A. (May 15, 2018) "H2RI", new album released by pan y rosas (Chicago, IL, USA).
• Allik, A. and Xambó, A. (April 7-8, 2018) "Music Hackspace presents Collaborative Network Music (workshop) led by Alo Allik and Anna Xambó". Rewire 2018. The Hague, The Netherlands.

2017

• Xambó, A. (October 14, 2017). "Huddersfield Girl Geeks: Audiovisual creative coding with P5.js". Free entrance. Kirklees Libraries. Huddersfield, UK. Sponsored by Google.