Friday, 1 November 2019, 1:30 pm – 5:30 pm The Neuron pod, Whitechapel, Queen Mary University of London The FAST partners from the Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary, Oxford…

Professor David De Roure, the FAST Co-Investigator from Oxford, will collaborate as a partner in the PRiSM team from the Royal Northern College of Music  on a new Ada Lovelace event at…

The FAST project combined forces with the ESRC PETRAS Internet of Things project in a public event at the at the Tate Modern on 8-9 February. The event explored how the Internet of Things is changing…

Music’s changing fast, FAST is changing music. Our FAST documentation film is now available to watch (click on one of the two links below): Full film VIMEO: https://player.vimeo.com/video/307448834 Full film YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/VF4qQRcGfl8…

Showcasing the culmination of five years of digital music research, the FAST IMPACt project (Fusing Audio and Semantic Technologies for Intelligent Music Production and Consumption), led by Queen Mary University…

Seventy international researchers attended the 5th conference on Digital Libraries for Musicology (DLfM) in Paris, France, organised by the FAST project in collaboration with the Unlocking Musicology project and the…

[caption id="attachment_2848" align="alignleft" width="300"] Introduction by Professor Mark d’Inverno[/caption] Music’s changing fast: FAST is changing music. Showcasing the culmination of five years of digital music research, the FAST IMPACt project…

Research in the FAST project and several other projects has demonstrated a new way to perform sound design. High quality, artistic sound effects can be achieved by the use of…

Oxford FAST team members who are researchers at the University of Oxford’s e-Research Centre, have announced version 1.0 of their Music Encoding and Linked Data (MELD) framework, a flexible software…

On Wednesday 2 May, FAST team members from the Centre for Digital Music at Queen Mary, Alo Allik and Josh Reiss, presented their latest research at the Sounds Amazing 2018…

FAST Live demonstrations at the QM Ideas Unwrapped yearly event, 26 April, Queen Mary [caption id="attachment_2361" align="alignright" width="300"] Grateful Live demonstrator by Thomas Wilmering, C4DM, Queen Mary[/caption] FAST team members…

Thursday 26 April, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Professor Mark Sandler gave his talk ‘FAST Forward’ on the FAST project on Thursday 26 April in a keynote talk…

FAST Live Demonstrations @Ideas Unwrapped, Thursday 26 April, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End   FAST IMPACt is a five-year EPSRC project that brings the latest technologies to bear on the…

The Inaugural Lecture by Professor Josh Reiss, Professor in Audio Engineering “Do you hear what I hear? The science of everyday sounds” Tuesday 17 April, 18:30 – 19:30 hrs, Queen…

[caption id="attachment_2284" align="alignright" width="300"] Music and Maths, Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford, Oxfordshire. (Photo: Matthew Wilcoxson)[/caption] On Saturday 27th January more than 800 people attended “Music and Maths”, a performance by the…

The Mixed Reality Lab in collaboration with the National Video Game Arcade and the Theatre Royal and Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham present two exciting activities scheduled for ‘All Your Bass’,…

Members of the FAST IMPACt project team from C4DM, Queen Mary University of London and Oxford e-Research Centre, Oxford University presented their research at the 18th International Society for Music…

FAST IMPACt project members from the Centre for Digital Music (C4DM) organised a workshop on the 20th October 2017 as part of AES New York 2017 on Archiving & Restoration: AR08 – The…

All Your Bass: The Videogame Music Festival, Nottingham, Friday 19 and Saturday 20 January 2018 The National Videogame Arcade has just announced the launch of a new videogame music and…

Between the 17th and the 24th October 2017 the Centre for Digital Music (C4DM) invited the composer Tracy Redhead to collaborate on FAST with the Postdoctoral researcher Florian Thalmann.  The…

The DOing REusable MUSical data (DOREMUS) research project is a French project that aims at improving music description to foster music exchange and reuse and enhancing the user experience for…

FAST Oxford partner Professor David De Roure is heading to Australia this October for a month of teaching, lectures and presentations. David De Roure is being hosted by former e-Research…

On Wednesday 4th October an evening performance by the composer Emily Howard and the mathematician Marcus de Sautoy took place at the Royal Northern College of Music. The performance took place…

Professor Mark Sandler of Queen Mary, University of London (School of Engineering and Computer Science) gave a talk on Friday 16 June at the Music Technology Conference Room, Mc Gill, …

Maria Kallionpää’s new interactive work for piano, University of Nottingham, 8 June, 5 pm. Admission free. Directions: www.lakesidearts.org.uk/about-us/venues.html [caption id="attachment_1997" align="alignright" width="300"] Djanogly Recital Hall, Dept of Music, University of Nottingham[/caption]…

The ‘Music of Sound’ was a 1 day symposium and hack on sonification organised by the University of Oxford e-Research Centre and the Centre for Digital Scholarship. The theme of…

Alan Dower Blumlein, the British engineer and inventor of stereo sound recording, is to be posthumously honoured by the Recording Academy in the USA with the Technical Grammy award, according…

Mixing Music (eds: Russ Heptworth-Sawyer & Jay Hodgson), Perspectives on Music Production series, New York / Abingdon: Routledge, 2017. The series, Perspectives On Music Production, collects detailed and experientially informed considerations…

August saw Dr Alan Chamberlain (University of Nottingham) of the FAST project attend and help document a workshop that supported digital instrument designers to use the Bela platform “a new…

Professor David De Roure and Pip Willcox, two Oxford members of the FAST IMPACt team, presented an Ada Lovelace inspired paper ‘Numbers in Places: Creative Interventions in Musical Space &…

From 16-18 June 2016, the Centre for Digital Music (QMUL) including members from the FAST project presented a public exhibition of its research at the Sonar+D festival, a high-profile annual…

Professor Mark Sandler is one of 50 of the UK’s engineers to be welcomed as new Fellows on the day to mark the Academy’s 40th annual general meeting. There are only…

Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School, 4 – 8 July 2016 The Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School is the largest in Europe (and second largest in the world). It…

By Sebastian Ewert (Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary University of London) FAST project member Sebastian Ewert (Queen Mary University of London) visited in July our project partner International Audio…

FAST Report from the Music Encoding Conference, 17-20 May 2016, Montreal, Canada (by David Weigl) FAST project members David Weigl and Kevin Page (Oxford e-Research Centre) recently presented their work…

The FAST project was in full force at the ACM’s annual Computer-Human Interaction conference – widely known as CHI – in San Jose in May. CHI is the leading conference for research into…

The Able Orchestra project is the latest in a series of projects achieved through the partnership between Orchestras Live and Nottinghamshire Music Hub. The project has been co-produced by County…

Our partner from Nottingham, Professor Steve Benford, Mixed Reality Lab, just announced Artcodes – “the greatly extended and rebranded Aestheticodes app”. The Carolan guitar connects to its digital record through…

On the 15-16 February this year, FAST IMPACt partners met at the University of London Institute in Paris for their 2nd all-hands meeting located in beautiful surroundings of the Invalides…

22 April 2016, 2 – 3 pm, Conference Room (room 278), Oxford e-Research Centre, 7 Keble Road, Oxford, OX1 3QG Dr. Xiao Hu will give a seminar on “Cross-cultural Music…

“Cognition, Information & Creativity” 16th March 2016, 6.30pm The Octagon, Queens’ Building, Mile End Campus A free drinks reception will follow for all ticket holders. Lecture Synopsis Creativity is often…

[caption id="attachment_1039" align="alignleft" width="300"] Emily Howard explaining “numbers into notes” (with permission of photographer Angela Guyton)[/caption] Ada Lovelace’s significant contributions were celebrated and discussed at the Ada Lovelace Symposium last…

23 November 2016, Queen Mary University of London Organised by: Bob L. Sturm with support from the C4DM Platform Grant EECS lecturer Bob L. Sturm organised a concert at C4DM bringing…

Mark Sandler gave a talk on “Integrating music information sources for music production and consumption” at this year’s International Society for Music information Retrieval conference in Malaga, Spain. ISMIR is…

Tuesday 22 December, Queen Mary University of London, London Call for abstracts deadline: Friday 20 November 2015 Digital music is an important and fast-moving research area. Sophisticated digital tools for…

Monday 30 November, 7 – 9 pm, Mathematical Institute, Oxford Registration for this event is now open. Tickets are available here. A performance of ‘Ada sketches’ by Emily Howard, a…

University of Huddersfield, Uk, Friday 17 to  Sunday 19 June 2016 Conference Website:  https://csmc2016.wordpress.com Computational simulation of musical creativity is an emerging, exciting and significant area of research. In the…

The Open Symphony project reimagines the music experience for a digital age, fostering alliances between performer and audience and our digital selves. It has been developped recently by Mathieu Barthet…

At the recent Audio Mostly conference, the C4DM team presented their Moodplay experience project: “Moodplay: An Interactive Mood‐Based Musical Experience”.  (Paper reference: Barthet, M., Fazekas, G, Allik, A., Sandler, M.,…

Kingston University, Monday 16 November 2015, 13:30 to 20:00 hrs (GMT) This event focuses on the role of technology in our engagement with music and the intricate relationship between technology…

Research workshop: Listening in the Wild: Animal and Machine Audition in Multisource Environments, Queen Mary University of London, Friday 28th August, 10:30am-5pm * How do animals recognise sounds in noisy…

Tuesday 14 July / 9am – 2pm; 3 – 5 pm / FACTLab, Liverpool / FREE Performers often find ways of playing musical instruments that differ from the designer’s original…

By Brecht de Man (C4DM, Queen Mary University of London) – 138th Convention of the Audio Engineering Society, Warsaw, Poland, 7 – 10 May 2015. The 138th Convention of the…

Audio and Music Hackathon London, Queen Mary University of London, Saturday 18 July – Sunday 19 July 2015, London, UK. The Centre for Digital Music (C4DM) organised the Audio and Music…

Music Hack Day & Sonar Festival, Barcelona, 17-19 June 2015 Music Hack Day is an international 24-hour event where programmers, designers and artists come together to conceptualize, build and demo…

Digital Musicology: Applied computational and informatics methods for enhancing musicology, Monday 20 – Friday 24 July 2015, Oxford Organised by: The Oxford e-Research Centre (partner in the FAST IMPACt project)…