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Year: 2026

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