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July 2023

• Putting the rhythm in Algorithm. Workshop on musical rhythm in collaboration with the Stables Theatre and Raz Jayasuriya, for 30 ticketed members of the public. A haptics-assisted Brazilian and Cuban samba drumming workshop where motion tracking, haptics and low-latency networking were used to explore new ways of learning rhythms and to contribute to OU research developing new ways to enhance inclusion and engagement in music for the d/Deaf and blind. Spiegel Tent, Campbell Park.

May 2023

• The CHIME EPSRC Network on Music and Human Computer Interaction held a one-day event on Music Interaction and Physical Disability https://www.chime.ac.uk/music-interaction-and-disability at Cecilia’s Hall, Edinburgh, on May 19th 2023, in collaboration with Drake Music Scotland. Drake Music Scotland provides music making opportunities for people with disabilities, and is the leading national arts organisation playing this role. Some twenty contributors were present, including PhD students, established researchers, performers, composers, and representatives from charities including the Amber Trust and Drake Music Scotland itself. The centrepiece of the event was an extended presentation in person by Sound and Music New Voices 2022 Scottish composer & performer Chris Jacqin on of his work and the challenges of making music with cerebral palsy, during which Chris introduced the video premier of his performance of Ștefan Niculescu’s “Echoes II” with violinist, Gordon Bragg. Specific conditions which were explored in presentations by researchers included dementia, Batten’s disease, cerebral palsy, visual and hearing impairment, and profound physical disability. There were contributions from SMEs Playable Tech (demonstrating Music Bricks) and Digit Music (showing their CMPSR hardware and software). Researchers presented demonstrations of their research systems and prototypes including Strummi (Jacob Harrison), the no-string guitar (Eeve Zayas Garin) the MAMI Tool Kit (Asha Ward) and the Haptic Bracelets and Harmony Space (both presented by Simon Holland and Nicholas Canny). The final plenary discussion suggested that charities, musicians teachers, helpers schools and other organisations typically valued highly the prototypes and systems created by researchers (generally as part of their PhD work) but the absence of the relatively small amounts of funding that would be necessary for dissemination, archiving and maintenance created a chasm preventing much of this work being more widely. Thus it would be highly valuable to create a collective resource that would ensure that research projects in this area are made available for artists, charities and other organisations to be able to engage with, perform with, learn from, and build on. Specific opportunities for collaboration between SMEs researchers and practitioners were identified, and this and other strategic gaps in policy and funding were identified for subsequent follow up. Videos of the presentations can be found here on the CHIME YouTube channel.

Sept 2022

• The International conference on the Psychology of Programming (PPIG) was hosted by Open University on 5 - 9 September 2022. This year’s theme was ‘Turing, Piaget, Radiohead: PPIG and the Muse’, aimed at sparking insights drawing on programming, abstractions, notations, psychology, and music. This was the first PPIG to be held physically since 2019, following the two online-only PPIGs in 2020 and 2021, both during the Covid pandemic. It was also the first PPIG conference to be designed specifically for hybrid attendance. Reflecting the theme, it was hosted by Music Computing Lab at the Open University in Milton Keynes, and held a mere ten minutes from Bletchley Park, where Alan Turing and colleagues triumphed algorithmically in WWII. There were some 67 attendees. PPIG is the premier international conference on the Psychology of Programming, running annually since 1987. https://ppig.org/workshops/2022-annual-workshop

• As part of PPIG, two invited drop-in workshops focusing on insights from musical rhythm were run for physical attendees concurrently on two floors of the Venables building. These were designed to be enjoyable and rewarding in their own right, and to promote reflection on issues of foundational interest to PPIG. Thanks to the workshop devisers and organisers:An algorithmic drumming circle was kindly designed and led by invited speaker Alex Mclean. Participants were invited to bring their own laptops to collectively investigate and make rhythms with Alex’s celebrated pattern weaving, manipulating and visualising systems, the Haskell-based Tidal, and the Web-based Strudel.Noam Lederman: drum conversations with a real-time improvisatory drum agent. An improvisational drumming circle was organised by international-level session drummer, and widely acknowledged music educator Noam Lederman. Participants were invited to improvise drum patterns using various hand drums in musical conversations with a real time drumming agent designed and programmed by Noam as part of his PhD work in-progress at the Music Computing Lab. Noam’s agent has been highly rated to date by professional drummers using it in shedding sessions – complementing this, the workshop demonstrated that the agent could be highly engaging for beginners as well.

June 2022

• CHIME hosted the 2022 NIME Liberating Methods workshop. Workshop attendees werencouraged to arrive with a particular research question they’d like to address, but for which they are not sure how to proceed methodologically. .

March 2022

• Simon Holland (PI) and Tom Mudd (Co-I, University of Edinburgh) have been awarded a new EPSRC grant to create network in Music and Human Computer Interaction (CHIME - Computer Human Interaction and Music nEtwork). Industrial collaborators include Generic Robotic, Playable Technology and TikTok; and charitable collaborators include Drake Music, Special Needs Music, and the Stables Theatre. Academic co-applicants include: Steve Benford, Nottingham; Alan Blackwell, Cambridge; Carola Boehm, Staffordshire; Lamberto Coccioli, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire; Rebecca Fiebrink, University of the Arts London; Andrew McPherson, Queen Mary; Atau Tanaka, Goldsmiths; Owen Green, Huddersfield; Thor Magnusson, Sussex; Eduardo Miranda, Plymouth; and Paul Stapleton and Maarten van Walstijn, Queen’s Belfast. The network aims to connect and assist researchers from diverse disciplines, whether just starting or established, whose interests span any combination of Music and Human Computer Interaction (also known as Music Interaction - MI). CHIME will create a new interdisciplinary Music Interaction community of researchers, industrials and charities to integrate and disseminate knowledge, training and expertise in a wide range of emerging innovative areas through workshops, training, visits and new collaborations. The project starts in April 2022 and has been awarded £46,929 to carry out this work over the next three years. https://gow.epsrc.ukri.org/NGBOViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/V050540/1 http://chime.ac.uk

February 2022

• Congratulations to Matt Bellingham on the award of his PhD! His research is entitled: Choosers: A Visual Programming Language for Nondeterministic Music Composition by Non-Programmers. His examiners were Chris Nash (UWE Bristol) and Robin Laney (STEM). Supervisors Simon Holland and Paul Mulholland.

January 2022

• Congratulation to Noam Lederman on upgrade from MPhil to PhD registration on his project Enhancing Creativity with Intelligent Music Interfaces: Stylistic Conviction in Popular Music Drumming.

• Innovate UK Grant Success. Haptic Virtual Reality for multi-user, collaborative design at a distance, integrating sighted and visually-impaired users. Alistair Barrow of Generic Robotics (PI), Lisa Bowers (OU PI), Simon Holland and Claudette Davis-Bonnick (University of the Arts) have been awarded a new grant for the MakeActive Project. Technology can routinely provide high-fidelity, real-time, visual, and auditory communication remotely. However, some activities depend implicitly on direct physical touch and feel, e.g. for medicine, teaching, and design. This particularly important for the sight-impaired (SI). The MakeActive Project explores ways to extend existing systems with novel hardware and software that can provide haptic and proprioceptive affordances (making use of the senses of touch and body position respectively) to deepen access and inclusion for all, including sight-impaired users. The project combines prototyping of new hardware and software with user trials with sight-impaired users.

October 2021

• Congratulations to German Ruiz-Marcos on successfully completing his viva voce examination for his PhD thesis entitled ‘Tension-driven Automatic Music Generation’. The research concerns I using purely structural harmonic means to control tension on demand in real -time (e.g. for video games) in music that has coherent long term harmonic structure. His examiners were Colin Johnson (University of Nottingham) and Ben Winters (FASS). Congratulations to German and to his supervisors Robin Laney and Alistair Willis.

August 2020

• The Polifonia Project €3,025,435 (A digital harmoniser for Musical Heritage Knowledge has been awarded by EU, to run 2021- 2024. The bid was initiated by Simon Holland, with Enrico Daga (KMI) as PI and Enrico Motta, Paul Mulholland and Simon Holland as Co-Is. There are ten collaborating partners from Italy, the Netherlands, France and Ireland, and ten stakeholders including the Bibliothèque Nationale de France and the Stables Theatre in Wavendon. The project will design, implement and evaluate innovative multimodal haptic and gestural interaction techniques for music, with particular attention to inclusion for diverse disabilities, including profound deafness.
• This project is highly synergistic with the existing Creative and Performing Arts Digital Inclusion grant from the Stables Theatre with Simon Holland (PI)and Paul Mulholland (Co-I) to enhance the approaches of the Stables and the Milton Keynes International Festival in working with D/deaf and disabled communities as participants, audience members and performers.
• The new project also has strong connections with the existing HAPPIE project funded by Innovate UK to develop novel haptic interaction technologies for visually impaired designers, with Lisa Bowers, Simon Holland and Janet Van der Linden with Generic Robotics Ltd, Sliced Bread Animation and Numerion Software.
• Theo Geogiou has paper published in JMIR (Impact Factor 3.4) on his work on Rhythmic Haptic Cueing Using Wearables as Physiotherapy for Huntington’s Disease. Georgiou, Theodoros; Islam, Riasat; Holland, Simon; Linden, Janet Van Der; Price, Blaine; Mulholland, Paul and Perry, Allan (2020). Rhythmic Haptic Cueing Using Wearable Devices as Physiotherapy for Huntington’s Disease: Case Study. JMIR Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies Journal. DOI: 10.2196/18589 (Impact Factor 3.4)

July 2020

• Despite Covid Restrictions, the Innovate-UK Funded HAPPIE Project runs a successful series of pilot evaluations with visually impaired designers to evaluate new haptic technologies designed as part of the project. The remote field experiments involves couriering a falcon haptic device and laptop to the participants in turn, while using a tablet, camera and teamviewer and specialised software for remote interaction.
• Riasat Islam has paper accepted by JMIR Biomedical Engineering on wearable motion capture for healthy and post surgical gait tracking. lslam R, Bennasar M, Nicholas K, Button K, Holland S, Mulholland P, Price B, Al-Amri M. Nonproprietary movement analysis software using wearable inertial measurement units on both healthy participants and those with anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction across a range of complex tasks: validation study. JMIR Mhealth Uhealth (forthcoming). doi:10.2196/17872 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/17872.
• Noam Lederman and Simon Holland attend the excellently organised and memorable virtual NIME 2020.

June 2020

• Noam Lederman presents a paper "Developing drum improvisation skills through interaction with a reflective conversational agent" on the final day of the Centre for Computing Research Virtual Conference, 18-19 June 2020.

May 2020

• Emilie Giles, Claudette Davis-Bonnick and Lisa Bowers redesign evaluations of haptic technologies for visually impaired designer so that the evaluations can be carried out remotely. Planned now for July.
• Noam Lederman designs user interaction controls, rhythm transformations, inference strategies for a reflective conversational shedding agent for the upcoming CRC conference.

April 2020

• The Music Computing Lab as a research group adjusts to 100% remote working due to Covid lockdown. Research continues as normal. This is vastly easier at the Open University than for most universities, due to our extensive experience and capabilities for remote research, supervision and teaching.

March 2020

• The Polifonia Project €3,025,435 (A digital harmoniser for Musical Heritage Knowledge ) is submitted to the EU. Decision expected in August.

February 2020

• 4 February - Research Fiesta held at Kents Hill.

January 2020

• Some of us visit at the Saatchi Gallery in London the last exhibition of Tutenkamams' treasures that will ever be held outside Egypt. Simply Stunning.

December 2019

• 17 December 2019 Noam Lederman and Simon Holland attend DMRN+14, the Digital Music Research Network One-day Workshop at QMUL in London.

November 2019

• Agreement in principle established with the Stables Theatre Wavendon on a joint project as part of a 2-year long programme funded by the MK Community Foundation to enhance the Stables' approach to working with D/deaf and disabled communities as participants, audience members and performers.

October 2019

• Noam Lederman starts PhD focusing on the development of drum improvisation skills through interaction with a reflective conversational agent.

September 2019

• Dr AnneMarie Zijlema runs Ideation workshop for haptic devices on 25 September 2019 in the Music Computing Lab
• 24th September Dr Oliver Hodl from the University of Vienna / Cooperative Systems Research Group presents a seminar on Sparkling Instruments

August 2019

• Matt Bellingham presents a paper " Toward meaningful algorithmic music-making for non-programmers" at PPIG 2019, the 30th Annual Workshop of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group 28th-30th August at Newcastle University, UK. Bellingham, Matt; Holland, Simon and Mulholland, Paul (2019). Toward meaningful algorithmic music-making for non-programmers. In: Proceedings of 30th Annual Workshop of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group - PPIG 2019.

May 2019

• CHI 2019 May 4 - 9 Glasgow (ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems). Simon Holland and Riasat Islam attend for Book Launch.
• Launch of our new book New Directions In Music and HCI, at CHI.

April 2019

• Dr AnneMarie Zijlema presents a talk based on her PhD research.

Feb 2019

• Tom Mudd has paper accepted by the prestigious IJHCS - the foremost journal worldwide in HCI. Mudd, Tom; Holland, Simon and Mulholland, Paul (2019). Nonlinear Dynamical Processes in Musical Interactions: investigating the role of nonlinear dynamics in supporting surprise and exploration in interactions with digital musical instruments. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 128 pp. 27–40.
• Katie Wilkie-McKenna joins the music computing lab as visiting researcher.

Jan 2019

• The new book New Directions In Music and HCI, three of whose lead editors are from the music computing lab, has now completed proof stages and will be launched by Springer at CHI 2019 in Glasgow. Our previous book on this topic Music and Human-Computer Interaction has over 30,686 downloads .
• Grant for £998,538 from Innovate UK awarded to Lisa Bowers, Simon Holland and Janet Van der Linden (with Generic Robotics Ltd, Sliced Bread Animation and Numerion Software) for Happie Audience of the Future - Creative touch, Design prototyping.
• 29th January - Congratulations to Dmitri Katz, who makes a successful defence at his PhD viva.

Dec 2018

• Matt Bellingham has completed a new major end-user study of choosers, his innovative graphical programming language Choosers, for algorithmic music composition by non-programmers. The revised design, following from earlier studies, is proving highly successful. Choosers is now fully recursive and has a range of new features.

Nov 2018

• Congratulations to Stefano Papetti and Charalampos Saitis, whose open-access freely available edited book Musical Haptics has already amassed over 38,000 downloads. The chapter on Haptics for the Development of Fundamental Rhythm Skills, Including Multi-limb Coordination is authored by three members of the Music Computing Lab.

Sept 2018

• Congratulations to Tom Mudd, who after completing his remarkable PhD on Nonlinear Dynamics In Musical Interactions at the Music Computing Lab has been appointed to a Lectureship at the Reid School of Music at the University of Edinburgh.

July 2018

• Joe Corneli presents paper on Patterns of Design at Europlop 2018 (the 23rd European Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs) in Bavaria, Germany.

June 2018

• Riasat Islam's paper on Haptic Technologies for Healthcare is presented at at EuroHaptics 2018 in Pisa, Italy.

April 2018

• Simon Holland presents talk on 26th April on Music interaction tools for harmony and rhythm at McGill University Schulich School of Music, University of Montreal
• Dmitri Katz presents two digital health papers at CHI 2018 in Montreal. Designing for Diabetes Decision Support Systems with Fluid Contextual Reasoning is awarded a coveted Honourable Mention Award – indicating a paper in the top 5% of all SIGCHI 2018 submissions.
• Riasat Islam's paper on 'A longitudinal rehabilitation case study for hemiparetic gait using outdoor rhythmic haptic cueing via a wearable device' was presented at 27th European Stroke Conference, 11-13 Apr 2018, Athens, Greece.

March 2018

• Riasat Islam presented 'Gait rehabilitation by outdoor rhythmic haptic cueing using wearable technology for neurological conditions: a case study' at ACPIN International Neurophysiotherapy Conference, 19-20 Mar 2018, Manchester, UK.

Jan 2018

• The OU's HCI group has four full papers accepted for CHI 2018 in Montreal
• Matt Bellingham has completed his end-user study of his innovative graphical programming language Choosers, for algorithmic music composition for non-programmers.
• Congratulations to Kurijn Buys on award of his PhD "Towards a Precisely Quantified Wind Instrument Exciter: A Computational Mouthpiece in Interaction with Acoustic Resonators"

Dec 2017

• Congratulations to Tony Steffert who successfully defended his PhD thesis ‘Real-time electroencephalogram sonification for neurofeedback’ on 5th December. His examiners were Prof Mick Grierson and Prof Marian Petre, and his supervisors were Simon Holland and Paul Mulholland.

Nov 2017

• Demo to Makers of new 3D Printer in the School In Makerspace. 21st Nov 2017.
• Music and Human Computing Interaction ( Holland, Simon; Wilkie, Katie; Mulholland, Paul and Seago, Allan eds.)(2013). Springer Verlag, now has 21,411 downloads.
• Final edits to chapter on 'Haptics for the development of fundamental rhythm skills, including multi-limb coordination', for Stefano Papetti and Saitis Charalampos's forthcomping book on Musical Haptics.

Oct 2017

• Congratulations to Kurijn Buys who successfully defended his PhD thesis ‘Development and Evaluation of a Hybrid Instrument’ on 3rd October 2017. His examiners were Maarten van Walstijn and Simon Holland, and his supervisors were David Sharp and Robin Laney.

Sept 2017

• Conference on Computer Simulation of Musical Creativity 11th - 13th Sept 2017.
• Matt Bellingham gave talk at CSMC "Choosers: designing a highly expressive algorithmic music composition system for non-programmers".

Oct 2016

• Federico Visi, a PhD student at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research at Plymouth University, an accomplished researcher in music, interactive systems, performing arts, and visual media, has joined the Music Computing Lab as a visiting researcher during Fall/Winter 2016.
• Simon Holland served as a Panel member at the STEM Festival Ada Lovelace Day, Peterborough. STEMFEST 1st Oct.

July 2017

• Congratulations to Tom Mudd who successfully defended his thesis ‘Nonlinear dynamics in musical interactions’ on 17th July 2017. His examiners were Dr Thor Magnusson, Senior Lecturer in Music at University of Sussex, and Dr Robin Laney. His supervisors are Simon Holland and Paul Mulholland.
• Congratulations to Riasat Islam who begins his PhD study this month.

June 2017

• Bernhard Schatzl demonstrates pressure chair demo with Support Vector Machine processing and visualisation.

March 2017

• Dr Albert Meroño, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, gives talk The Statistics of Stairway to Heaven: a Semantic story about Digital Humanities 13th March 2017.

Feb 2017

• Hackathons run in London, Birmingham and Edinburgh by members of the school his month to support our Interaction Design module TM356.

Dec 2016

• Matt Bellingham presents poster at DMRN "Designing a highly expressive algorithmic music composition system for non-programmers", 20 Dec 2016.

Nov 2016

• The Routledge Companion to Music, Technology, and Education finally released, including chapter on ' Harmony and Technology enhanced Learning'.

Sept 2016

• Kurijn Buys presented his paper “Improving the stability of a hybrid wind instrument using two microphones” written with David Sharp and Robin Laney at the International Symposium on Musical and Room Acoustics in Buenos Aires, Argentina, ISMRA September 11-13, 2016.
• Simon Holland was a co-chair of the 2016 Ubicomp Workshop along with Eirik Årsand, Nick Dalton, Dmitri Katz, Blaine Price, Clare Martin and Carl_Magnus: ‘Designing, Developing, and Evaluating the Future Internet of Personal Health’, Heidelberg, Germany, 12 September 2016.
• External examining: Doon MacDonald’s successfully defended her PhD thesis on the topic of “The Development and Evaluation of an Approach to Auditory Display Design Based on Soundtrack Composition”. Supervisor Tony Stockman. Examined at the Department of Computer Science at Queen Mary University of London 3 Sept 2016. Simon Holland was external examiner.

August 2016

• Based on earlier research in the Music Computing Lab that led to the devising of the Haptic Bracelets for learning and teaching multi-limbed drum rhythms, we have been applying this technology to gait rehabilitation for various neurological conditions, such as stroke. One of the recent resulting publications: R Stockley, G Donaldson, J Tetley, T Georgiou, S Holland, J Van Der Linden, O Pizone (2016) Walk to the beat: a single case study investigating a novel haptic device to improve walking after stroke CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASES 2016 41, 89-89.

July 2016

• Award from Julie Dyson £74,358 to fund PhD studentship in Digital Health.

June 2016

• Oliver Hodl successfully defended his PhD thesis “The Design of Technology-Mediated Audience Participation in Live Music” at the Technical University of Vienna (Technische Universität Wien) 6 June 2016 (External supervisor Simon Holland).
• Outstanding Radiohead Gig at the Secret Solstice Festival In Laugardalur Park, Reykjavík Iceland. Unusual to come out of a concert at midnight to find out it’s still daylight outside.
• Presentation to the Human Computer Interaction Group at the Institute of Design and Assessment of Technology, Technical University of Vienna by Simon Holland. The Haptic Bracelets: from Music Interaction to Neurological Gait Rehabilitation. Seminar 7th June 2016.
• Theodoros Georgiou and Dmitri Katz each presented papers at the EAI International Conference on Wearables in Healthcare, 14-15 June 2016, Budapest: Georgiou, Theodoros; Holland, Simon; van der Linden, Janet and Donaldson, Glenis, Questioning classic patient classification techniques in gait rehabilitation: insights from wearable haptic technology - and Katz, Dmitri; Dalton, Nick; Holland, Simon; O'Kane, Aisling and Price, Blaine A. (2016). Questioning the Reflection Paradigm for Diabetes Mobile Apps.

May 2016

• Samuel Van Ransbeeck presented his installation Outros Registros (Other Registers) sonifying violence data at a public showing in Rio de Janeiro. This is an outgrowth of his my PhD work with the DataScapR sonification toolbox
• Three members of the Music Computing Lab (Tom Mudd, Katie Wilkie and Simon Holland) were co-chairs of CHI 2016 Workshop on Music and HCI in San Jose California, with eight colleagues from round the world. Simon Holland, Andrew McPherson, Wendy McKay, Marcelo Wanderley, Michael Gurevich, Tom Mudd, Sile O’Modrain, Katie Wilkie, Joseph Malloch, Jeremie Garcia, Andrew Johnston. San Jose, California, USA, 7-12 May 2016.
• Tom Mudd presented a paper on Material-Oriented Musical Interaction at the CHI 2016 Workshop on Music and HCI in San Jose California: Tom Mudd, Simon Holland and Paul Mulholland (2016). Material-Oriented Musical Interaction. Proceedings of Music and HCI Workshop. Eds Mudd, Holland and Wilkie. CHI 2016 San Jose CA USA. Proceedings of Music and HCI Workshop. Eds Mudd, Holland, Wilkie CHI 2016, San Jose CA USA.
• Oliver Hödl presented a paper on LiveMAP Design Cards for Technology-Mediated Audience Participation in Live Music at the CHI 2016 Workshop on Music and HCI in San Jose California: Oliver Hödl, Fares Kayali, Geraldine Fitzpatrick and Simon Holland (2016). LiveMAP Design Cards for Technology-Mediated Audience Participation in Live Music. Proceedings of Music and HCI Workshop. Eds Mudd, Holland, Wilkie CHI 2016, San Jose CA USA.

March 2016

• Grant awarded by Greater Manchester Academic Health Science Centre Network, Assistive Technologies – Reducing Social Isolation to support recovery, health and wellbeing –Rachel Stockley, Josie Tetley (Manchester Metropolitan University) and Simon Holland. £29,997.00.

Feb 2016

• Andrew J. Milne and Simon Holland (2016) Empirically testing Tonnetz, voice-leading, and spectral models of perceived triadic distance. Journal of Mathematics and Music, 2016, 10(1) pp. 59–85. Accepted 6 Feb 2016.

Dec 2015

• Andrea Franceschini of the Music Computing Lab successfully defended his PhD ‘Learning to use melodic similarity and contrast for narrative using a Digital Tabletop Musical Interface’. The examiners were Prof Marian Petre and Prof Eduardo Miranda (Plymouth University). 10 Dec 2015.
• Live performance of Oliver Hodl's Trombosonic - TU Orchester - Uraufführung Akademische Festouvertüre von Dietmar Hellmich. Vienna, December 2015.
• Music Computing Lab Xmas Pub Lunch at the Plough. 17th Dec.
• External examining: Tychonas Michailidis’ successfully defended his PhD viva at Birmingham City University Arts, Design and Media. Simon Holland was one of two external examiners.
• Live performance of Oliver Hodl's Trombosonic - TU Orchester - Uraufführung Akademische Festouvertüre von Dietmar Hellmich. Vienna, December 2015.
• Linson, Adam; Dobbyn, Chris; Lewis, George and Laney, Robin (2015). A Subsumption Agent for Collaborative Free Improvisation. Computer Music Journal, 39(4) pp. 96–115.

Oct 2015

• Welcome to Simon Cutajar, who starts as a PhD student in the Music Computing Lab, with topic “Automatic Music Generation Based On Data Mining.”
• Anthony Prechtl of the Music Computing Lab successfully defended his thesis, on ‘Adaptive music generation for computer games’. His examiners were Prof. Elaine Chew (Queen Mary, University of London) and Dr. Ben Winters (Music). Supervisors were Robin Laney, Alistair Wilis and Robert Samuels.

Sept 2015

• Buys, Kurijn; Sharp, David and Laney, Robin (2015). A comparison of single-reed and bowed-string excitations of a hybrid wind instrument. In: Proceedings of the Third Vienna Talk on Music Acoustics, University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, pp. 290–296.16–19 September 2015.
• External Examining: Duncan Menzies successfully defended his PhD thesis “Technological Support for Highland Piping Tuition and Practice” at Queen Mary University of London, Supervisors Andrew McPherson and Pat Healy. Impressively, the PhD awarded with no corrections. External examiner Simon Holland.

August 2015

• Mudd, T., Holland, S., Mulholland, P., & Dalton, N. Investigating the effects of introducing nonlinear dynamical processes into digital musical interfaces. SMC 2015 Twelfth Conference on Sound and Music Computing Maynooth University, Ireland, July 26 – Aug 1, 2015.

July 2015

• Steffert, Tony; Holland, Simon; Mulholland, Paul; Dalton, Sheep; Väljamäe, Aleksander (2015) Prototyping a method for the assessment of real-time EEGSonifications. ICAD 2015 International Conference on Auditory Display, Graz, Austria, 8 - 10 July 2015. (Won Best Student Paper Award and €200 prize).

May 2015

• Georgiou, Theodoros; Holland, Simon; van der Linden, Janet; Tetley, Josie; Stockley, Rachel C.; Donaldson, Glenis; Garbutt, Linda; Pinzone, Ornella; Grasselly, Fanny and Deleaye, Kevin (2015). A blended user centred design study for wearable haptic gait rehabilitation following hemiparetic stroke. In: 9th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, 20–23 May 2015, Istanbul, Turkey.

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