Category Research

The Alan Turing Institute, the UK’s national institute in artificial intelligence and data science, is a project partner of the AIM CDT and three AIM PhD students and six AIM supervisors will join the Turing in Autumn 2021.

The following AIM PhD students will join the Turing as Enrichment students in 2021/22:

• Lele Liu – Enrichment project: Cross-domain automatic music audio-to-score transcription
• Ilaria Manco – Enrichment project: Multimodal deep learning for music information retrieval
• Luca Marinelli – Enrichment project: Gender-coded sound: A multimodal data-driven analysis of gender encoding strategies in sound and music for advertising

The Turing’s Enrichment scheme offers students enrolled on a doctoral programme at a UK university an opportunity to boost their research project with a placement at the Turing for up to 12 months.

The following AIM supervisors have been appointed Turing Fellows in 2021/22:

• Dr Emmanouil Benetos
• Prof. Nick Bryan-Kinns
• Prof. Simon Dixon
• Dr Huy Phan
• Dr Charalampos Saitis
• Prof. Mark Sandler

Turing Fellows are scholars with proven research excellence in data science, artificial intelligence or a related field whose research would be significantly enhanced through active involvement with the Turing network of universities and partners.

This year’s NIME 2021 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2021) is happening online once again. The one-year tradition continues, three of our AIM students are currently presenting their work at NIME:

• Creativity in Children’s Digital Music Composition, by Corey Ford, Nick Bryan-Kinns, and Chris Nash;
• COSMIC: A Conversational Interface for Human-AI Music Co-Creation, by Yixiao Zhang, Gus Xia, Mark Levy, and Simon Dixon;
• Guitar augmentation for Percussive Fingerstyle: Combining self-reflexive practice and user-centred design, by Andrea Martelloni, Andrew McPherson, and Mathieu Barthet;

Below is a list of all the publications authored or co-authored by other C4DM members:

• The Timbre Explorer: A Synthesizer Interface for Educational Purposes and Perceptual Studies, by Joshua Ryan Lam and Charalampos Saitis;
• Cross-Pollinating Ecological Perspectives in ADMI Design and Evaluation, by Alex Lucas, Jacob Harrison, Franziska Schroeder, and Miguel Ortiz;
• DMI Apprenticeship: Sharing and Replicating Musical Artefacts, by Luis Zayas-Garin, Jacob Harrison, Robert Jack, and Andrew McPherson;