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for the mathematics, sciences, medicine and technologies of music and sound

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

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

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

Robert Laidlow, AI+ Fellow, to give webinar on the many faces of AI in musical composition and performance as part of the AI Frontiers 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

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

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

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

Julie Meyer will give a presentation titled “Numerical and perceptual evaluations of finite-difference time-domain simulations for room acoustics applications” on Wednesday, 24 September 2025 at 14:30 in building 19, room 3011 at the University of Southampton. This talk is part…

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 Soliński present at IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference

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

Orchisama Das Organises CCRMA Workshop on Virtual Acoustics for Immersive Audio (21 Jul – 1 Aug 2025)

Orchisama Das is organiser with Gloria Dal Santo of hybrid workshop on Virtual Acoustics for Immersive Audio at Stanford CCRMA Mon 21/07/2025 – Fri 01/08/2025

Gloria Dal Santo, Aalto University PhD candidate, on Differentiable DSP for Feedback Delay Networks in Artificial Reverberation (14 Jul 2025)

MON 14 Jul 2025, 4PM, KCL STRAND S1.12 : Gloria Dal Santa to give talk on using differentiable DSP to optimise artificial reverberation models

Julie Meyer presents at Forum Acusticum – Euronoise 2025

Julie Meyer gave a presentation at Forum Acusticum – Euronoise held in Málaga from 23-26 June 2025. The talk, titled Accommodation to virtual sound rendering in a reverberant room with 3DoF and 6DoF interaction, was part of the session on “Virtual acoustics…

Esa Räsänen, Professor of Physics at Tampere University, on The Science of Timing: Rhythms in Music and Heartbeats (25 Jun 2025)

WED 25 Jun 2025, 4PM, KCL Becket House 5th Floor: Esa Räsänen to give talk on how microtiming connects music, heart, and health

Gavin Williams, Lecturer in Music at King’s, on seismic soundings and early digital audio restoration (24 Jun 2025)

TUE 24 June 2025, 2PM, KCL Strand Campus S3.30: Gavin Williams to give talk on sounding the earth’s strata

Elaine Chew And Gérard Assayag Lecture At The Shanghai Conservatory Of Music

Elaine Chew gives lecture, “At the Heart of Musical Expression” and Gerard Assayag “Symbolic Interaction and Cocreativity” at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music

DongMin Kim, student from Sogang University, on music computing with traditional Korean sources in DDH Lunchtime Seminar (29 May 2025)

THU, 29 May 2025, 12PM, KCL Strand : DongMin to give talk on music computing with traditional Korean sources as part of the DDH Lunchtime Seminar series