Music at “THE DIGITAL” Conference
The Digital Conference 2026 runs 23–26 June at KCL’s Bush House. Friday 26 June features two back-to-back music-related sessions: computational sound and music, and creative AI from KCL’s Creative AI Lab. For anyone interested, session details are below. Programme 9:30…
MARC Open Day
MON 22 JUN 2026, 12-6PM, KCL JCMB / STRAND : Open Day with distinguished lectures by Anna Huang, Roger Dannenberg, trio performance with heart-breath visualisations, immersive sound and stacco instrument demonstrations and more
Concert at the Festival of Storytelling: Messages, Memories, Memes
3 JUN 2026, 7:30-9PM, STRAND: Sonic storytelling through Laidlaw’s Post-Singularity Songs and content performed by Lamprea and Zucchi
Jacob Harrison (Nordoff & Robbins) on Designing Accessible Digital Musical Instruments in Clinical and Community Settings
22nd April 3:00PM : Jacob Harrison, researcher at the charity Nordoff & Robbins, to give talk at King’s
Workshop on Biomechanics of Piano Playing with Mi-Eun Kim and Praneeth Namburi
THU, 26 MAR 2026, 12PM-1.30PM, KCL WATERLOO… Hands-on workshop using ultrasound imaging to understand muscular and skeletal movements during piano playing
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) : 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, 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, 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