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 | Session L L3) Computational Sound and Music – Chair: Mark Gotham BH (SE) 1.05 |
| Luca Marinelli, Iacopo Ghinassi, Charalampos Saitis – Leveraging RAG for a Low-Resource Audio-Aware Diachronic Analysis of Gendered Toy Marketing | |
| Iain Emsley – Programmed Noise: Structuring Sound in Programming Languages | |
| Martin Nicastro, Mattia Zanotti – Computational Humanities and Digital Methods: Currents and Future Perspectives in Popular Music Studies | |
| Barry Ife, Jasper van der Klis – Texting Scarlatti: large-scale phylogenetic analysis in historical musicology | |
| 11:00 | Break Bush House Arcade |
| 11:30 | Session M M4) Creative AI – perspectives from the Creative AI Lab @ KCL BH (SE) 2.09 |
| Mercedes Bunz – Mapping the crack: on meaning making in technology and culture | |
| Daniel Chavez Heras – Macroscopic imagination | |
| Joanna Zylinska – If machines can create, what makes us so special? | |
| Eva Jäger – Beyond Optimisation: surfacing the cultural and political dimensions of physical AI systems | |
| Mark Gotham – Music about Five-Legged Horses: on creativity uncoupled from semantic “ground truth” |
For the full programme and more about the conference, please see the conference website.
