Our group focuses on various topics including:
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Developing and designing Interactive & Intelligent Music Technologies (I2MT).
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Understanding human computer & AI interactions in musicking.
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Understanding musicking practices with I2MT.
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Enhancing human creativity with AI.
- Developing new forms of music expression in VR
Funded projects
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Digiscore: ERC Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme
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Instrumenting Instruments, Somabotics: Creatively Embodying AI UKRI Turing AI Fellowship
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Xtreme: Mixed Reality Environment for Immersive Experience of Art and Culture (EU Horizon Europe project)
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Immersive Music with AI: REF Enchancement fund
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Resonant Worlds – AI, Emotion, and the Human Spirit: EPSRC Outreach & Widening Participation Funding
- Beyond Resonance: New Worlds, New Partnerships to fuse Music, Visual Arts and AI: AHRC IAA Mode A grant
Awards
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Sound of the Year (2025, Craig Vear)
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Global Tech award (2025, Craig Vear)
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Rising Talent Award form Women's Forum for Economy and Society, Paris, France (2024, Anna Shvets)
Publications
- AVILA, J. M., CAVDIR D., REED, C. N., MAINSBRIDGE, M., GRIMSTAD BANG, T. and MONTESINOS GARCIA, L. (2025). "Somatic and somaesthetic design practices” In: Proceedings of NIME.
- CLIFFE, L. KHAN, M. and BENFORD, S. (2025). In the middle of the music: A qualitative study of headset and loudspeaker distributed interactive spatial audio within a musical mixed-reality environment. In: Proceedings of 2025 ACM Audio Mostly, Coimbra, Portugual.
- MILES, O., HAZZARD, A., MOROZ, S., BISHOP, L. and VEAR, C. (2025). Meaningful Interactions in Human-AI Musicking. In: Proceedings of 2025 ACM Audio Mostly, Coimbra, Portugual.
- SHVETS, A. (2025). NeRF and Niagara Particles System - Transforming Classical Music Composition into Interactive Music VR Experience. Proceeding of EVA London 2025, London, 7–11 July 2025, pp. 95-100. Retrieved from
- BENFORD, S., McGARRY, G., HAZZARD, A., CHAMBERLAIN, A., GIBSON, R., & MARTINEZ AVILA, J. P. (2024). Augmenting musical instruments with digital identities. Journal of New Music Research, 1–20.
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VEAR, C., BENFORD, S., AVILA, J. M., & MOROZ, S. (2023). Human-AI Musicking: A Framework for Designing AI for Music Co-creativity. AIMC 2023. Retrieved from:
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AVILA, J. M., HAZZARD, A., GREENHALGH, C., BENFORD, S., & MCPHERSON, A. (2023). The Stretchy Strap: supporting encumbered interaction with guitars. Journal of New Music Research, 1-22. DOI: