May 14, 2025
AIL Open Seminars #009
Critical Sound Synthesis - MORE ROAR!, by John Richards (Dirty Electronics) and Agnes Cameron
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Our latest activities
April 27, 2025
Music from the Augmented Instruments Laboratory
The Augmented Instruments Lab presents Shifted: Music from the Augmented Instruments Lab.
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June 17, 2024
AIL Open Seminars #005
Sustainable Speech: Experimental Music and Sensory Technologies for Post-Stroke Aphasia, by Zeynep Bulut
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November 13, 2023
Music from the Augmented Instruments Laboratory
Join us for a daytime seminar and evening concert at QMUL on 17 November 2023, with special guests Iran Sanadzadeh and Jeff Synder.
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November 02, 2023
AIL Open Seminars #003
Living with a Digital Musical Instrument: Interface - Instrument - Practice - Pathway by Iran Sanadzadeh
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November 02, 2023
AIL Open Seminars #002
Explorations in the ethics of creative-AI by Anna-Kaisa Kaila
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October 18, 2023
Augmented Instruments Lab at the Science Museum
New instrument demos at the free Science Museum Music Lates event.
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September 28, 2023
AIL Open Seminars #001
Interfacing Gear Cultures: A Critical Organology of Modular Synthesis by Eliot Bates
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November 15, 2022
Music Software Accessibility Symposium
Improving blind and visually impaired (VIB) access to music software.
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November 01, 2022
The Augmented Instruments Lab is moving to Imperial
Lab director Prof. Andrew McPherson is moving to Imperial in January 2023, and the lab will have a dual institutional affiliation.
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June 19, 2022
NIME 2022 at the Augmented Instruments Lab
Lab papers at NIME 2022 and a local London watch event.
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April 13, 2022
Music from the Augmented Instruments Laboratory
The UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Artificial Intelligence and Music presents the third edition of Music from the Augmented Instruments Lab.
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November 23, 2021
Music from the Augmented Instruments Laboratory
The SECOND Augmented Instruments Laboratory online concert will take place on Tuesday 23 November at 7pm (GMT).
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November 01, 2021
Lia Mice wins an Oram Award
Congratulations to lab member Lia Mice on winning a 2021 Oram Award! The Oram Awards celebrate innovation in music, sound and related technologies by women and gender minority artists.
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March 10, 2021
Music from the Augmented Instruments Laboratory
We are pleased to announce the first Augmented Instruments Laboratory online concert!
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November 27, 2019
Augmented Instruments Laboratory Concert
Music & installations from the augmented instruments laboratory
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October 23, 2019
Visit from Heart n Soul SoundLab
Visitors from Heart n Soul's SoundLab project came to the Augmented Instruments Lab
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September 16, 2019
Trill Touch Sensors on Kickstarter
Precise, easy-to-use touch sensors for makers from the Bela team.
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August 08, 2019
Absurd Music Hackathon
A hackathon around the themes of absurd musical interfaces, questionable sonic interactions and unworkable music designs.
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August 07, 2019
Invited guest Davide Rocchesso @ C4DM
Welcoming Prof. Davide Rocchesso (Universita' degli Studi di Palermo) on 7 August
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July 15, 2019
Looking forward to meet Alexander Jensenius
Prof. Alexander Jensenius (University of Oslo) visiting our Lab on 15 July
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July 11, 2019
The Guardian!
An article featuring some of the latests Augmented Instrument Lab activities
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July 02, 2019
DALE CARNEGIE VISITING THE AUGMENTED INSTRUMENT LAB
Prof. Dale Carnegie (Victoria University, NZ) will visit the lab on 2 July
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June 27, 2019
Marcelo Wanderley visit and seminar on Multidisciplinary Research in Music
Prof. Marcelo Wanderley (McGill University, CDN) will visit the lab on 27 June and will give a seminar on 28 June
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June 14, 2019
Augmented Instruments Laboratory Concert
Music, installations & designs from the augmented instruments lab
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June 11, 2019
Drake Music DMLab London Relaunch
Jacob Harrison demonstrated the Strummi at the relaunch of DMLab London
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May 29, 2019
Augmented Instruments lab at LSO Make Music Day
Jacob Harrison and Luis Zayas demonstrated accessible tech at LSO St. Lukes
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April 15, 2019
Sam Aaron introducing Sonic Pi
An inspiring talk-demo on how can we teach coding through music?
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April 15, 2019
Charles Matthews on Accessibility and Instrument Design
Charles Matthews shared some of his inclusive music tech approaches
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March 25, 2019
Rosie Wakely from Rusty Squid was here!
Thanks to Rosie Wakely for hanging around with us for a day!
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March 15, 2019
Welcoming Halldór Úlfarsson
Halldór showcased the halldorophone to the lab, super inspiring!
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February 14, 2019
Koray Tahiroglu visiting the Augmented Instrument Lab
We are excited to collaborate with musician and researcher Koray Tahiroglu!
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November 01, 2018
Stefano Bollani visit
Stefano Bollani visited the Augmented Instruments Lab!
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September 05, 2018
Ars Electronica 2018
Augmented Instruments Laboratory @ Ars Electronica 2018
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May 23, 2018
Keynote Speech and Presentation at ICLI 2018
Andrew McPherson will be delivering a keynote speech, and Jack Armitage will be presenting at International Conference of Live Interfaces 2018, in Porto, Portugal
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April 26, 2018
Augmented Instruments Laboratory Concert
Augmented Instruments Laboratory live @ IKLECTIK
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March 24, 2018
Bela and Innovate UK
Enabling Accessible, High-Performance Crafts for Makers and Artists.
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March 21, 2018
Daniel McNamara visit
Daniel McNamara visitng researcher at the Augmented Instruments Laboratory.
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January 30, 2018
BBC Teach at the Augmented Instruments Lab
BBC Teach came to visit the Augmented Instruments Lab to film a segment on Jacob Harrison's One-Handed Bass project
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November 02, 2017
Hackoustic Village at We Are Robots
Andrew McPherson presented his work, and lab members gave demonstrations at the Hackoustic Village, part of We Are Robots festival in Brick Lane
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July 10, 2017
HCI International 2017
Robert Jack presents research on latency in digital musical instruments at HCI International 2017 in Vancouver
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May 21, 2017
Music from the Augmented Instruments Laboratory
Evening concert of music from the Augmented Instruments Laboratory
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Latest events
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Music from the Augmented Instruments Laboratory
May 12, 2025
The Augmented Instruments Lab presents Shifted: Music from the Augmented Instruments Lab.
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Music from the Augmented Instruments Laboratory
April 23, 2022
The UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Artificial Intelligence and Music presents the third edition of Music from the Augmented Instruments Lab.
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Music from the Augmented Instruments Laboratory
November 23, 2021
The SECOND Augmented Instruments Laboratory online concert will take place on Tuesday 23 November at 7pm (GMT).
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Lia Mice wins an Oram Award
November 1, 2021
Congratulations to lab member Lia Mice on winning a 2021 Oram Award! The Oram Awards celebrate innovation in music, sound and related technologies by women and gender minority artists.
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Music from the Augmented Instruments Laboratory
March 10, 2021
We are pleased to announce the first Augmented Instruments Laboratory online concert!
