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AIM at NIME 2024

NIME 2024 logo

On 2-6 September, AIM PhD students Jordie Shier, Shuoyang Zeng, and Teresa Pelinski will be at the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), which will take place in Utrecht, the Netherlands.

Jordie will present his paper Real-time Timbre Remapping with Differentiable DSP, written in collaboration with Charalampos Saitis (C4DM, QMUL), Andrew Robertson (Ableton) and Andrew McPherson (Imperial College London). The paper discusses a method for mapping audio from percussion instruments onto synthesiser controls in real-time using neural networks, enabling nuanced and audio-driven timbral control of a musical synthesiser. You can read the paper here and check the project website and presentation here.

Shuoyang will also present a paper, Building sketch-to-sound mapping with unsupervised feature extraction and interactive machine learning, written in collaboration with AIM PhD student Bleiz Del Sette and Charalampos Saitis (C4DM, QMUL), Anna Xambó (C4DM, QMUL) and Nick Bryan-Kinns (CCI, University of the Arts London). The paper explores interactive (personalised) constructions of mappings between visual sketches and sound controls as an expressive way for musical composition and performance.

Teresa will co-lead two workshops. The first workshop, First- and second-person perspectives for ML in NIME has been organised in collaboration with Théo Jourdan (Sorbonne Université) and Hugo Scurto (independent artist and researcher). It focuses on autoethnographic methods to articulate insights and experiences surrounding new instrument building with AI – you can read more here. The second workshop, Building NIMEs with Embedded AI, has been organised in collaboration with Charles Patrick Martin (Australian National University). It is a hands-on tutorial for embedding light deep learning models on Raspberry Pi and Bela – you can read more here.

See you at NIME!


AIM at EUSIPCO 2024

EUSIPCO 2024 logo, location, and datesOn 26-30 August, AIM researchers will participate in the 32nd European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2024) in Lyon, France. EUSIPCO is the flagship conference of the European Signal Processing Society (EURASIP) and offers a comprehensive technical program addressing all the latest developments in research and technology for signal processing.

AIM members will be presenting the following work:

See you at EUSIPCO!


CfP: First AES International Conference on AI and Machine Learning for Audio (AIMLA 2025)

AIMLA 2025 poster, with conference name, location, and dates.First AES International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Audio (AIMLA 2025), Queen Mary University of London, Sept. 8-10, 2025, Call for contributions

The Audio Engineering Society and the Centre for Digital Music invite audio researchers and practitioners, from academia and industry to participate in the first AES conference dedicated to artificial intelligence and machine learning, as it applies to audio. This 3 day event, aims to bring the community together, educate, demonstrate and advance the state of the art. It will feature keynote speakers, workshops, tutorials, challenges and cutting-edge peer-reviewed research.

The scope is wide – expecting attendance from all types of institutions, including academia, industry, and pure research, with diverse disciplinary perspectives – but tied together by a focus on artificial intelligence and machine learning for audio.

For more information on the Calls for Papers, Special Sessions, Tutorials, and Challenges, please visit the conference website.

Three AIM PhD students are part of the organising committee, with Soumya Sai Vanka and Franco Caspe serving as Special Sessions Co-Chairs, and Farida Yusuf serving as Sponsorship Chair.