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Muse Meets Medicine : Festival of Arts and Human Dimension in Healthcare

MON-TUE 16-17 MAR 2026, ST BARTHOLOMEW’S HOSPITAL : Two-day festival celebrates meeting of art and medicine as partners in healing, learning and thriving

Nils Meyer-Kahlen, postdoctoral researcher at Imperial College London on audio rendering for AR

THU 12TH MAR 2026, 2:30PM, MACADAM BUILDING (MAC 302)Β : Nils Meyer-Kahlen, postdoctoral researcher at Imperial College London on audio rendering for AR

Laidlow’s TECHNO-UTOPIA feature of BBC Radio 3’s New Music Show

SAT 28 FEB 2026, 10.30PM, BBC RADIO 3 (New Music Show) Tonight and for 28 days, Tom Service presents Laidlow’s work, first orchestral piece integrating BBC archives and AI instruments

Ed Newton-Rex: Appropriated Intelligence: Making AI Training Fair in DDH Seminar Series (11 Feb 2026)

WED 11 FEB 2026, 5.30PM, KCL STRAND (Embankment Rm) Ed Newton-Rex, Founder & CEO of Fairly Trained, on spread and impact of unlicensed AI training

Robert Laidlow, AI+ Fellow, on creative AI in musical composition and performance (28 Jan 2026)

Video now live for Robert Laidlow’s AI Frontiers webinar on the many faces of AI in musical composition and performance

Iran Roman, Lecturer at QMUL, on Advancing Multimodal Machine Perception Through Neural Dynamics and Music AI

Fri 6th FEB 2026, 11.30am, KCL Strand Campus, STRAND BLDG S2.49  Iran Roman, will a give talk at KCL Strand campus as part of the MARC Seminar Series, with refreshments provided courtesy of the NMES Research Culture Fund. Title : Advancing Multimodal…

Evan Benway and Jeff Larson (CEO & CPO Moodsonic) on Adaptive Soundscaping as a Building System (2 Feb 2026)

MON 2ND FEB 2026, 2PM, Β KCL WATERLOO (FWB 5.144) CEO and CPO of Moodsonic on Adaptive Soundscaping as a Building System

Vanessa Pope, COSMOS postdoc, publishes framework for analysing speech timing in comedy

PNAS Nexus press release and paper by Vanessa Pope proposing new methods for analysing timing in performed speech now out!

Lorenzo Picinali, Professor at Imperial College London, on surprising findings in immersive audio research (14 Jan 2026)

Lorenzo Picinali,Β Professor at Imperial College London gives talk at King’s Strand campus as part of the MARC Seminar Series

Robert Laidlow is AI+ Fellow in Department of Music and King’s AI Institute

Robert Laidlow, composer who develops and deploys artist-led creative technologies, joins KCL as AI+ Fellow in the Department of Music

Sarah Nicolls’ Inside-Out Piano Featured in The Times (9 Jan 2026)

First working prototype of Sarah Nicolls’ Inside-Out Piano on display at Fitzrovia Chapel until 8 Feb; concert-talk on 20 Jan

Digital Music Research Network draws record participants (16 Dec 2025)

The Greater London++ Digital Music community turned up in full force (50% more than last year) to DMRN+20 organised by Mark Gotham (KCL) and Alvaro Bort Alonso (QMUL)

Mark Gotham hosts DMRN+20 at KCL Bush House (16 Dec 2025)

TUE, 16 Dec 2025, 10am-5pm, KCL Strand (Bush House) : Mark Gotham hosts the 20th Digital Music Research Network (DMRN+20) at King’s College London

Karolina Prawda, Lecturer at University of York, on room impulse response measurements (28 Nov 2025)

FRI 28 NOV 2025, 2PM, KCL Waterloo (FWB 1.63) : Karolina Prawda to give talk on room impulse response measurements

Daniel Bedoya, postdoc at University of Lille, on citizen science and fairness in digital music (26 Nov 2025)

WED 26TH NOV 2025, 2PM, KCL STRAND S2.28 : Daniel Bedoya to speak on citizen science annotations of performed music and fairness in music recommendation

Seeing the Unseeable : Exploring the Creative Process in Music and Maths (24 Nov 2025)

MON, 24 Nov 2025, 7-8:30PM, KCL Strand (Edmond J Safra Lecture Theatre) : Emily Howard, Elaine Chew, Lauren Redhead, Marcus du Sautoy with Rachel Bearon on creativity in mathematics and music

Professor Dmitri Tymoczko : Rules of Music in DDH Seminar Series (19 Nov 2025)

WED 19 Nov 2025, 5PM, KCL Strand (Embankment Room) Professor Dmitri Tymoczko to speak on the Rules of Music

Sarah Nicolls and Neil Thomas on Rebuilding the piano (19 Nov 2025)

WED 19 Nov 2025, 2PM, KCL Strand (Room S2.28) Dr Sarah Nicolls and Professor Neil Thomas MBE on making a vertical, lightweight grand piano

Nithya Shikarpur, MIT PhD student, on Generative Modelling and Interactive Performance for Hindustani Music (21 Oct 2025)

TUE 21 OCT 2025, 10:30AM, KCL Waterloo (JCMB 5.15) : Nithya Shikarpur to give talk on generative modelling and interactive performance for Hindustani music

Amy Blier-Carruthers: From Stage to Studio in KCL Music Colloquium (15 Oct 2025)

WED 15 Oct 2025, 4:30PM, KCL Strand (St David’s Room) : Amy Blier-Carruthers to give Music Colloquium on evolution of performance from live on stage to studio recordings

Mark Plumbley joins King’s as Head of Informatics Department

Welcome to Mark Plumbley, well known for work on sound/audio analysis/processing, who joins King’s as Head of Informatics

Julie Meyer presents research on room acoustics in Southampton ISVR seminar

WED 24 Sep 2025, U Southampton : Julie Meyer presents ISVR Seminar, “Numerical and perceptual evaluations of finite-diff time-domain simulations for room acoustics applications”

Vanessa Pope on Timing Structures in Live Comedy in KCL Computational Humanities Seminar

WED 1 Oct 2025, 5PM, KCL : Vanessa Pope to give Computational Humanities Seminar on Timing Structures in Live Comedy

Music-based Research at ESC Congress 2025 together with World Congress of Cardiology

Natalia Cotic gives talk on Digital Health Stage and Poulomi Pal gives two moderated poster presentations at ESC 2025

Natalia Cotic and Mateusz SoliΕ„ski present at IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference

Natalia Cotic and Mateusz SoliΕ„ski represented the COSMOS project at the 47th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC)