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Friday June 20thBurdall's Yard
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Time
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17:30Doors Open
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18:00Conference Check-in, Welcome and Drinks Reception
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18:30Keynote/Performance - Kayla Painter - https://www.kaylapainter.com/
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19:30Performance - Daniel Linker/Nervio Cosmico - https://nerviocosmico.com/about/
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20:30Performance - Mark Whitlam - https://www.markwhitlam.com/
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Saturday June 21stNewton Park Commons
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TimeTV StudioG23/24131132133134
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09:00Coffee/Registration
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09:30Intro/Welcome
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10:00Performance - Chair: Mathew LovettProduction and Technology - Chair: Alex StevensonCollaboration and Creative Connections - Chair: Rob WilsmoreTech - Chair: Jan-Olof Gullo
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10:00(10:00 Start) Difference, Repetition, and New Beginnings: A Deleuzian Approach to Polyphonic Improvisation - Dan SternThe Allure of The Analogue in Music Production - Cian O'FarrellLet’s Hear It: The Etiquette of Collaboration in Songwriting Camps - Simon Barber and Katherine WilliamsFail Better, Rap Harder: Samuel Beckett’s Mantra and the Birth of Spanish Rap’s Underground Identity - Diego Alejandro Fernandez Gil
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10:22Exploring Creative Affordances of Elektron’s Syntakt in (Electronic) Music Production and Performance with a DAW - Hussein BoonReframing Music Production: Translation, Actor-Networks, and Collaborative Creativity - Konstantinos Koumpiadis(Re)Imagining Electric Guitar Craft in the Open-Source Virtualization Era - Daniel Santos Rodriguez and Henrique Portovedo
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10:44(10:45 Start) Simultaneity - the beginners mind - Peter WiegoldRecording without headphones - past, present and future - Rob Toulson, Mike Exarchos and Isaac Faraz-ChandlerAdaptive Conductors: Navigating Changes in Performance, and Technology in the Music Industry - Yajie YeAural Architectures and Haunted Virtualities - Michael Trommer
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11:06Soul and Simulacrum: On Hip-Hop Sampling in the Age of AI - Zachary DiazQuantum Music-enabled Creativity: Unlocking the Transformative Value of Quantum for Creative Work in Music Industry - Yuzhen Zhu, Patrick Stacey and Kexin Qi
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11:30Coffee
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11:45Keynote - Saffron Music - Session TBC - Chair: Rob Toulson
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12:45Lunch
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13:45Spatial Audio - Chair: Justin PatersonBusiness/Money - Chair: Mads Walther-HansenMedia - Chair: Matthew Lovett
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13:45Spatial Composition: Concepts and Applications - Ambrose SeddonFinancial support for non-traditional concert formats: an analysis of orchestral projects and funder priorities - Clara ColottiAudio without a Vision: The New Beginning of Narrative Audiobook Music - Ville Hovi and John Matthias
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14:07From Timbre to Trajectory: An Integrated Instrument for 3D Sound Design - Francesc MoyaLessons from the studio: what the music industry can learn from the innovations of independent female artists - Carrie ErvingBike Voyage II Apple – Björn J:son Lindh’s innovative flute playing in a new context - David Thyrén and Jan-Olof Gullö
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14:29Recording Techniques for Immersive Music Production - Andrew BourbonBridging the gap: an innovative approach to increasing the effectiveness of postgraduate provision in preparing students for careers in the modern music industry - Marc Estibeiro, Carola Boehm and Richard ClarkeIncreasing Student Composer Diversity and Visibility: The BBC Television Programme Boarders As Innovation Case Study - Mykaell Riley and Hussein Boon
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14:51DJing In Space: Re-exploring spatial DJing through accessible technologies - Tim Land
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15:15Coffee
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15:30Performance - Chair: Matthew LovettReframing Expectation - Chair: Pete YeldingAI-Interfacing - Chair: Russ Hepworth-SawyerProduction - Chair: Jan-Olof Gullo
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15:30Opera Remixed: Disrupting the Operatic Voice - Toby YoungHarmonizing Creativity and Efficiency: Examining the Transformative Impacts of AI-Powered Tools on Contemporary Popular Music Production - Ruzbeh SmileyRethinking the Process of Audio Mixing - Ashour Ahmed
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15:52(16:00 Start) All Around My Hat: Deconstructing Folk Music in Immersive Sound - Timothy JohnstonSinging Vessels by Nervio Cosmico: A convergence of the ancestral and XXI century technologies - Daniel LinkerArtificial intelligence as collaborator and disruptor: empowering improvising musicians through the lens of embodied, enacted and extended cognition - Mark WhitlamVirtual Listeners: Music production aesthetics and digital selves in the early 21st century - Iain Findlay-Walsh
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16:14Innovative Listening: Reframing our Engagement with Sound in Music Production - Mads Walther-HansenEmotionally Adaptive Music: Towards human composer agency in music composition with automated text/dialogue using multi-dimensional sentiment analysis - John Matthias, Giorgio Cortiana, Jay Auborn, Jamie Gibney, Emmanuel Spinelli and Nathan DuranFrom Production Format to Research Methodology: Spatial Audio Composition as a ‘New Beginning’ in Listening, Sensing, and Understanding - Antti Saario
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16:45Break
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17:00Keynote - Jason Dasent - Accessible Music Tech In Action - Chair: Rob Toulson - G 23/24
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18:00Announcement of InMusic 2026
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18:05Practice Research and Musical Innovation: a 21st Century Music Practice research network session - Professor Simon Zagorski-ThomasNewton Park Tour
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19:00Dinner
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Sunday June 22ndNewton Park Commons
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TimeTV StudioG23/24131132133134
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09:00Sunday Start
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09:10Q&A and Coffee
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Online Q&A - (E)merging Technologies and Participatory Approaches - Chair: Jan-Olof Gullo and Russ HepworthOnline Q&A - Music Research and Participatory Approaches - Chair: Andrew Bourbon and Matthew Lovett
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09:10‘Let the smile always be independent of nationality’: The Role of Participatory Poetry and Music for Rewriting Migration Narratives - Marieke LewisAn innovative approach to music research: a case study on interdiscipline - Xuefeng Zhou
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Haptically Augmented Mixing Desk - Vangelis KatsinasJust the Contrafacts: Exploring Contrafact Composition as a Research Tool - Toby Armstrong
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Recasting mixed music with live electronics: towards a performance-based approach - Philippe Trovão and Henrique PortovedoDesignerly Thinking: A New Lens to Address Contemporary Music Production Challenges - Karun Ramani
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Composing with the IKO Loudspeaker: Altering the relationship between sound, space, and listener - Emma MargetsonThe Post-Performer Instrumentalist: creative and performative challenges in works for saxophone - Jorge Sousa and Henrique Portovedo
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“Intabula rasa”: An exploratory user study of tablature software and perspectives on popular music creativity with algorithmic tools - Baptiste Bacot, Benoît Navarret and Louis Bigo
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09:45Break
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10:00Keynote - Object Oriented Discography: Collaboration, Creativity and the Music Hyperobject - Dr Robert Wilsmore - Chair: Rob Touslon
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11:00Break
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11:15Culture - Chair: Peter WiegoldEducation - Chair: Andrew BourbonAccessibility - Chair: Toby YoungPerformance Practices and Spatialisation - Chair: Alex Stevenson
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11:15Real-time Integration of Music Processing in VR for Interactive Experiences Emphasizing the Fusion of Modern and Traditional Music in Historical Elements of Iran (Persia) - Mehran AbdolahiniaThe Role of Tabla in Promoting Cultural Sustainability - Ashok Kumar Arya(Just Like) Starting Over? What traditional instruments can – and can’t – tell us about DMIs and disability - Mat Dalgleish and Sarah WhitfieldBring Machines: Towards a Framework for Improvised Electronic Music Performance - Dave Fortune
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11:37Kokoronaki / Minimo awarewa / Shirarekeri / Shigitatsu sawano / Akino yugure: An exploration of transcultural identity - Ryoka HagiwaraThree Years Later: The Evolution of the 90 Songs Project - Daniel Pratt and Konstantinos KoumpiadisRedefining Virtual Reality Accessibility for Visually Impaired Audiences: The Role of 3D Audio, Audio Description, and Sound Design - Justin Paterson and Cesar Jesus Salazar PortilloCreative Spatialisation - A Classical Perspective - Brendan Williams
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11:59‘Drunk’ rebetiko blues: anatomising two ‘dírla’ intercultural songs - Nassos PolyzoidisNew beginnings are needed in audio mastering education.
Proposal = Learning Journey Innovation - Russ Hepworth-Sawyer		Enhancing Ensemble Accessibility for Visually Impaired Musicians Through Assistive Technology - Rachel HorrellThe Electromyographic Music Avatar (EMMA): A Tool for Embodied Musical Performance - João Coimbra, Henrique Portovedo, Sara Carvalho and Luís Aly
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12:21Ancestral Virtual Sound Objects: A Decolonial Approach to Virtual Instrument Making - Diego BenalcazarInteractive aural approaches for developing multiple music literacies - Amanda BayleyCrafting the Vibe: Innovative Vibrotactile Feedback for Blind and Visually Impaired Music Creators - Tychonas Michailidis (Presenting) and Christina Karpodini
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12:45Lunch
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13:30Research Implications - Chair: Amanda BayleyMechanical - Chair: Jan-Olof GulloCreativity - Chair: Justin Paterson
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13:30From Theory to Sound: Applying Research Skills to Develop Cross-Genre Fusions - Kirill PolyanskiyThe innovative potential of exploring the unknown - Iker Ormazabal and Inigo LlanosHidden Treasures: The Emergence of Amy Winehouse's Tears
Dry on Their Own (2006) - Paul Thompson and Rob Wilsmore
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13:52Evolving music theory for emerging musical languages - Emmanuel DerutyComposing with waves. An empirical ontology of electromagnetism - Eleonora OreggiaNot going back: Steps towards an ecology of musical creAItivity - Matthew Lovett
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14:14Blank Canvas: Art school pedagogy for creative music development - Simon StrangeMechanical Techno in the studio: writing a track by building a kinetic sounding sculpture - Graham DunningNew Beginnings: CBGBs, Suffering and Sur/Logic - Darrell Mann
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14:45Coffee Break/Author Session - 131
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15:15Modification - Chair: Russ Hepworth-SawyerJazz - Chair: TBC(Micro)Modulation - Chair: Rob ToulsonAI - Chair: David Thyrén
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15:15Sound at source: Instrument modification and machine aesthetics - Alex StevensonRebooting the Jazz Standard: Ludic Frameworks, Playful Standards, and "The Great Video Game Songbook" - James Heazlewood-DaleRedividing the Octave for Expanded Tonal Spaces: Further Practical Explorations of Formalised Approaches to (Poly)microtonal Composition - Edward ClijsenGenerative AI as a tool to support film composition and sound design – an industry case study - Kirsten Hermes
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15:37Hot-wiring Grooves: Fabricating feels with experimental tools - Jamie HowellThe Re-shaping Of Jazz To Come - the significance of Ornette Coleman's Croydon Concert - Nick SorensenUnderstanding and Emulating Time: Analyzing and Simulating Musical Microrhythm Timing with the beat_it Toolbox - Egor PoliakovInnovative methods to improve music mixing: with or without AI? - Jan-Olof Gullö and Gary Bromham
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15:59Mountains Moving Music: using VHS footage to generate ambient music - how does this practice foreground creative process? - Polly Mackey“Let the Dance Contest Begin!”: Varying Interpretations of Metric Modulation within Chinese Man’s ‘Step Back’ - Chris InglisWhose line is it anyway? Generative AI in Software Development: A Case Study in MIDI-processing Plug-in Design - Justin Paterson
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16:30Closing Remarks
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