Other Activities

2025

  • New Sónar+D Open Call: AI Performance Playground. Apply now to take part in the AI Performance Playground, an AI & Music Hacklab powered by S+T+ARTS. Deadline: 28th February.
  • New Web Audio Conference - WAC’25 [10th anniversary]. Co-organized by Ircam and Mozilla, 19-21 November 2025, Paris, France. Call for submissions: Deadline June 13, 2025.
  • Forthcoming Open Call: Embodied Perspectives on Sound and Music AI. Call for submissions: Manuscript Summary Submission Deadline: 12 February 2025. Manuscript Submission Deadline 17 November 2024. Topic editors: Çağrı Erdem (University of Oslo), Carsten Griwodz (University of Oslo), Stefania Serafin (Aalborg University), Anna Xambó (QMUL).
  • 2024

  • New Xambó, A., Roma, G. (2024) “Human-machine agencies in live coding for music performance”. Journal of New Music Research, 1–14 (Open Access).
  • New Marino, L., Xambó, A. (2024) Developing DIY Solar-Powered, Off-Grid Audio Streamers for Forest Soundscapes: Progress and Challenges. In Proceedings of the CHIME Annual One-day Music and HCI Conference 2024. The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.
  • (December 18, 2024). External PhD examiner for Aliénor Golvet. PhD thesis title: "Distributed Music Systems: Designing Web-Based Tools for Artistic Research and Practice (Systèmes Musicaux Distribués: Concevoir des Outils Web pour la Recherche et la Pratique Artistique)". PhD degree in Sciences et Technologies de la Musique et du Son (IRCAM · CNRS · Sorbonne Université), IRCAM, Paris, France.
  • (3 September 2024) Invited Tutorial – Design strategies and techniques to better support collaborative, egalitarian and sustainable musical interfaces. DAFx 24. University of Surrey. Guildford, UK.
  • (August 14, 2024). External PhD examiner for CHEN Manni. PhD thesis title: "Between Noise and Structure: Artificial Intelligence and Humans in Music Production". PhD degree in Creative Media; City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
  • 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.
  • (June 20, 2024). Your Sonic Forest - Hear Nature Speak through Sound Installations in Alice Holt Forest. You can find more info and register for the free event on the following Eventbrite link.
  • (13 June 2024) We are the music makers… with Anna Xambó (C4DM-QMUL), Magda Polo (UB EKHO), Rob Clouth, Sergi Jordà (UPF), and Thor Magnusson (Intelligent Instruments Lab). Moderated by Günseli Yalcinkaya (Dazed). Curated by Antònia Folguera. AI & Music Forum. Sonar Festival. Barcelona, Spain.
  • 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.
  • (May 7, 2024). Internal PhD examiner for Elizabeth Wilson. PhD thesis title: "Affective Live Coding: Fostering Human-Machine Collaboration with Autonomous Agents". PhD degree in Media Arts and Technology; School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science; Queen Mary University of London, UK.
  • (April 24, 2024). "In the search for sound-based music using MIRLCa, a SuperCollider extension for live coding a coral of sounds". NOTAM SuperCollider Meetup with James Harkins and Anna Xambó. Online.
  • (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).
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