22 June 2026, King’s College London
Free pre-conference lectures, open rehearsal and technology demo event
Interested to learn what MARC is about? Looking to meet other people in music and acoustic research?
On Monday 22 June, 12-6PM (the day before the NIME conference begins) the Digital Music Theranostic Lab will host a MARC Open Day at King’s College London. MARC, the Music and Acoustics Research Centre, is a multidisciplinary community of researchers at King’s College London working in the sciences and technologies of music and sound.
The day will feature Distinguished Lectures by Professor Anna Huang (MIT) and Professor Roger Dannenberg (Carnegie Mellon University), an open rehearsal of Ravel’s Trio and Schubert Op.100 with performer heart-breath visualisations, presentations/performances by students from MIT and KCL, and general socialising.
Attendance at the MARC Open Day is free and open to all. Spaces are limited, so please register for the Open Day at Eventbrite. Registered attendees are welcome to attend for part or all of 12-6pm. The event will take place on both sides of Waterloo Bridge.
12-2PM: The live performance by Hilary Sturt, Ian Pressland, and Elaine Chew with real-time physiological sensing and visualisation will take place at the James Clerk Maxwell Building — part of the KCL Waterloo Campus, 57 Waterloo Rd, London SE1 8WA; closest tube station: Waterloo. A light lunch will be provided following the performance with time to mingle and network.
2:30-6PM: The Distinguished Lectures by Anna Huang and Roger Dannenberg, and MIT/KCL student performances/presentations will be held in St David’s Room — King’s Building, KCL Strand Campus, Strand, London WC2R 2LS; closest tube station: Temple. There will be a break with reception for attendees.
Registration is free but mandatory for attending the Open Day, register here: Eventbrite. Please make sure to provide your email so you can be notified of possible schedule or location changes.
The MARC Open Day chairs are Natalia Cotic, Ege Erdem, Wentao Hao, and Ananth Venkatesh. Please contact the Open Day chairs with any queries at cosmos@kcl.ac.uk .
