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PEOPLEFacultySimon Holland![]() Robin Laney![]() Paul Mulholland![]() David Sharp![]() Adam LinsonAdam Linson is a double bassist, improviser, and composer, who also designs, develops, and performs with real-time interactive computer music systems. He performs regularly on the double bass, acoustically and with live electronics, as a soloist and in a wide variety of ensembles. He is also a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Computing & Communications at the Open University. His research interests include theoretical neurobiology and ecology, computational psychiatry, and auditory sensorimotor interaction, alongside philosophy of biology and philosophy of modelling. He was previously an Anniversary Fellow in Computing and Philosophy at the University of Stirling, and a Fellow or Visiting Fellow at UCL, University of Edinburgh, and University of Oxford. His publications include research articles in Behavioural Brain Research, Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, Frontiers in Robotics and AI, Biology & Philosophy, and Computer Music Journal.Janet van der Linden![]() Current Visiting Researchers and Research FellowsTony SteffertKatie Wilkie-McKennaDmirti KatzCurrent PhD StudentsNoam LedermanNoam is a respected musician, educator and author with a successful music career combining performance and authoring. He has written more than 100 music publications that have sold over a million copies worldwide. Noam has worked and performed with diverse prestigious artists, including Billy Cobham, Corinne Bailey Rae and Trevor Horn. Noam regularly performs playing the drums at various events and venues across the globe including Womad, Glastonbury and the Reading Festival. Noam was appointed Chief Examiner for the international music board Rockschool in 2009 , where he led, trained and moderated the examiners panel, and developed and produced their highly successful 2012 syllabus. In 2014 Noam founded the company Jungle Jam Publishing to provide high quality educational products and services to music. In April 2015 Noam was appointed as the Principal of The Academy of Rock, an award winning franchise of music schools in Asia. Noam's PhD research focuses on drum improvisation skills through interaction with a reflective conversational agent.Riasat IslamRiasat is a PhD student at the School of Computing and Communications, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK. His research is an exciting blend of Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Wearable computing, Haptics, Internet of Things (IoT), Digital Health, Gait Rehabilitation, Neurological and Neurodegenerative disorders. His supervisory team includes Dr. Simon Holland, Prof. Blaine Price and Dr. Paul Mulholland. He is funded jointly by the Goldcrest Charitable Trust and the Open University.Andrea BolzoniAndrea's thesis focuses on Sound-based music style modelling for free improvisation musical agents. Andrea was trained as a jazz guitarist, studied improvisation with Alberto Braida and Stefano Battaglia, and attended workshops with the School for Improvisational Music in New York and Oslo and with the Dutch Impro Academy in Amsterdam. He received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Electroacoustic Composition from the Milan Conservatory, Italy.Former PhD studentsMatt BellinghamMatt’s PhD research investigated user interface design for the democratisation of end-user algorithmic software. Matt is a Senior Lecturer in Music Technology at the University of Portsmouth and has worked as an engineer and producer since 1996, engineering and producing recordings for both major and independent labels. As a guitarist he has signed recording and publishing contracts and has toured the UK and northern Europe.Simon CutajarSimon's PhD research focused on automatic Music Generation Based On Data Mining. He is currently a game programmer at Resolution Games. Simon's personal website.Dmitri KatzDmitri's research explored the role of mobile digital technology in supporting diabetes self-management Dmitri is currently a post-doctoral researcher at Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software in Limerick, Ireland.German Ruiz MarcosGerman's PhD research focuses on the design, implementation and evaluation of programs that generates music automatically according to the level of tension, for example in computer games.Vassilis AngelisVassilis was awarded his PhD at the Open University in 2014. His PhD research focused on validation and analysis of a computational model of human rhythm perception and production based on gradient frequency neural network. His PhD predicted a previously unseen human behaviour in responding to rhythm which was subsequently detected empirically. Vassilis is currently a Senior Data Analyst at the national Financial Conduct Authority in the UK.Kurijn Buys
Kurijn Buys was awarded a his PhD on "Towards a Precisely Quantified Wind Instrument Exciter: A Computational Mouthpiece in Interaction with Acoustic Resonators" in Jan 2018. His PhD research examined hybrid electro-acoustic wind instrument set-ups by replacing the mouthpiece by an electronic virtual equivalent (using programmed physical exciter models on a "real-time" digital interface that is in bi-directional interaction with the real acoustic resonator). As such, the new and precise control possibilities addressed questions found in the music and performance domain, as well as in the field of wind instrument research.Andrea FrancesciniAndrea PhD was awarded his PhD in 2016. His PhD studied digital interactive multi-user tabletops to understand whether and how they can enhance music education. Digital musical tabletops have been around for a while, and yet many of their applications have not been studied thoroughly. Andreas says "I believe such instruments can be invaluable tools when it comes to exploring and experiencing music in a way that can be enjoyable, motivating, and informative, without being necessarily held back by the ability to play a traditional musical instrument."Theo GeorgiouTheo GeorgiouAdvances in technology create new opportunities for small, light, powerful and inconspicuous wearable devices. One of the key aims of Theo's research was the design, development, testing and evaluation of a wearable device capable of monitoring gait and provide a haptic rhythmic cue to the person wearing it. This can be used to assist with the gait rehabilitation and training of people who suffer from neurological conditions affecting their gait.Theo is currently a Research Associate in the Department of Computer Science at Herriot Watt University. Andrew Gustar![]() Oliver HodlOliver is a multi-disciplinary artist and researcher in music and multimedia. For more than a decade, he has been composing and performing music. His newly developed instruments and interactive concerts have lead to performances throughout Europe, USA and Australia. He completed his PhD in music computing on a self-funded basis at the Technical University of Vienna with lead supervisor Prof Geraldine Fitzpatrick, and Simon Holland of the Music Computing Lab as external supervisor.Rose JohnsonRose Johnson was awarded her PhD in 2014. Her PhD research was entitled "In Touch with the Wild: Exploring Real-time Feedback for Learning to Play the Violin".Adam LinsonAdam was awarded his PhD at the Open University in 2014. His PhD research focused on 'Investigating the cognitive foundations of collaborative musical free improvisation: experimental case studies using a novel application of the subsumption architecture',Tom Mudd![]() Tom Mudd completed his PhD in Nonlinear Dynamics In Musical Interactions at the Music in 2018, and now holds a Lectureship at the Reid School of Music at the University of Edinburgh. Anthony PrechtlAnthony was awarded his PhD in 2015. His PhD research focused on an Adaptive Music Generator for Multimedia Narratives, andusing musical features to drive algorithmic music, so that the features can be varied in response to real-time events and parameters of computer games.Anthony previously graduated from Whittier College, California, with a B.A. in music in 2007, and then completed the Music, Mind & Technology master's program at the University of Jyvaskyla, Finland in 2009. Much of his previous work has involved Dynamic Tonality, a new way of exploring microtonal music. I have co-written a microtonal sequencer, Hex, and several microtonal synthesizers, which make up the majority of the DT software suite.Tony SteffertTony is a first year PhD student in the Music Computing Lab investigating the sonification of EEG and physiological data to better support therapeutic and diagnostic interventions. Tony has a first class degree and numerous publications. He has worked as a Research Assistant at Imperial College London, a Research Fellow at Goldsmiths, and as a freelance researcher/technician consultant with other universities including Graz Tech University, Hertfordshire and Barcelona Pompeu Fabra.Anna XambóAnna completed her PhD in computer-supported collaboration on interactive tabletops for music performance in 2014. She is currently an Associate Professor in Music Technology at the Music Department of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and a Visiting Lecturer at Queen Mary University of London. I am Co-Founder and Chair of the organization Women Nordic Music Technology (WoNoMute) (2018-present).Katie Wilkie![]() Andrew Milne![]() His PhD research was on 'A computational model of the cognition of tonality'. He is a musician and has a Bachelor's in Fine Art (Psalter Lane Art College, Sheffield Hallam University) and a Master's in Music, Mind & Technology (University of Jyväskylä, Finland). His principal research area is music cognition, with a focus on the computational modelling of the feelings of expectation and resolution induced by progressions of tones, chords, and keys (Computational Modelling of Tonality Perception). He is also researching, composing, and playing, microtonality and spatial representations of well-formed scales (Use of Multi-touch Surfaces for Microtonal Tunings). Gordon MackayGordon Mackay was was awarded his MPhil at The Open University in 2013 on "Improvising Tangible User Interfaces".Tom CollinsTom Collins was awarded his PhD at The Open University in 2011, entitled "Improved methods for pattern discovery in music, with applications in automated stylistic composition.Allan SeagoAllan Seago was was awarded his PhD at The Open University in 2010, entitled " A new user interface for musical timbre design".Patrick HillPatrick Hill was awarded his PhD in 2007. His PhD thesis investigated Aspect Oriented Music Representation.Former Visiting researchers and research internsDr Annemarie ZijlemaAnnemarie Zijlema researched her PhD in Materialising Memories jointly at theUniversity of Technology Sydney (Faculty of Engineering and IT) and Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands (Faculty of Industrial Design). Dr Zijlema worked at the Music Computing Lab as a postgraduate researcher in 2019 as an HCI designer, study organiser and evaluator on the Haptic Bracelets Digital Health Research Project.Dr Anders Bouwer![]() Dr Federico VisiFederico carried out research on improving the accuracy and ease of use of low-cost inertial-based movement sensingfor applications in gait rehabilitation. Fanny GrasselyFanny was a 4th Year engineering student at Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France. Fanny joined the Music Computing Lab for the summer to write v3.0 firmware for the Haptic Bracelets, and to run empirical tests of passive learning with the Haptic bracelets( 6th May 2014 – Sept 5th 2014).Kevin DeleayeKevin wrote v2.0 application programs for Haptic Bracelets, and prototyped IMU-based Haptic Bracelet hardware v2.0. (7th April 2014 – 10th Oct 2014)Thomas CrevoisierThomas wrote firmware for PCB-based Haptic Bracelets and the original application program suite.May 2013 – 24 August 2013. (17 weeks) Maxime CanelliMaxime Canelli was a 4th Year engineering student at Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France, and joined the Music Computing Lab in 2012 for summer to work on the Haptic Bracelets and Rhythm Bracelets Projects. Maxime also joined the Stern Brocot Band while in the Music Computing Lab and played guitar for various microtonal performances and recordings.Dr Mat Dalgleish![]() Rosa FoxRosa Fox is an undergraduate at the University of Sussex. Rosa succeeded in getting the Music Lab's Axon neural midi tracker to work with an electric bass guitar, and worked out how to create new guitar simulations using the software for our Line 6 guitar. Rosa also carried out essential work on the precursor to this website.Topi Hurtig![]() Fabien LeonFabien Leon is based at the UFR Sciences et Techniques in Brest, in the Département Informatique, where he is taking a degree in Ingenierie Informatique. in 2009 he visited ICCMR in Plymouth, and the Music Computing Lab at the Open University, where he completed his project on a brain computer music interface working under the Supervision of Prof Eduardo Miranda at Plymouth and Simon Holland at the Music Computing Lab.Gerard RomaGerard Roma is a PhD student in Sound and Music Computing, studying at the Music Technology Group of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, part of its Department of Information and Communication Technologies. Gerard was a visiting student in the Music Computing Lab at the Open University for two months in 2011. Gerard presented his work on Sound Description at a Music Computing Lab Seminar, and also ran a hands-on workshop on SuperCollider.Mattia Schirosa![]() Dr Erwin Schoonderwalt![]() External Collaborators and Associate MembersProf Martin ClaytonProf. John Cook Dr Byron Dueck Dr Patrick Hill Dr Patricia Howard Dr Sergi Jordà Fabien Leon Prof. Eduardo Miranda Dr Allan Seago Dr Fred Seddon Prof. William Sethares Dr Mat Smith Dr Sylvia Truman Research Groups and Departments Associated with our ResearchMusic DepartmentPervasive Interaction Acoustics The Knowledge Media Institute (KMI) Mathematics and Statistics OU Accessibility Statement |