On Tuesday, 16 December 2025, King’s College London and the Music Acoustics Research Centre, in partnership with the Centre for Digital Music at Queen Mary University of London, hosted the annual Digital Music Research Network (DMRN+20). Organised by the indomitable Mark Gotham (MARC member from the Department of Digital Humanities) and the resourceful Alvaro Bort (C4DM) at Bush House on the Strand, the event drew 50% more people than the previous year.
Keynote
The keynote speaker Julian Parker of Stability AI – open-source generative AI designed to expand human creativity – spoke on the “Anatomy of a modern music generation model”.
Lectures
Invited Panel
The invited panel comprising of Dr Oded Ben-Tal (Kingston University London), Dr Diana Omigie (Goldsmiths, University of London), and Dr Charalampos Saitis (Queen Mary University of London) moderated by Professor Mark Plumbley (King’s College London) focused on “Interdisciplinary Frontiers in Music Research”
Posters and Break
The Obligatory Pub Run for the final “panel” discussions
Panel photos by Dave Kerr
Other photos by EC
The event was support in part by the NMES Research Culture Fund
