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
Digital Music Research Network draws record participants (16 Dec 2025)
The Greater London++ Digital Music community turned up in full force (50% more than last year) to DMRN+20 organised by Mark Gotham (KCL) and Alvaro Bort Alonso (QMUL)
Mark Gotham hosts DMRN+20 at KCL Bush House (16 Dec 2025)
TUE, 16 Dec 2025, 10am-5pm, KCL Strand (Bush House) : Mark Gotham hosts the 20th Digital Music Research Network (DMRN+20) at King’s College London
Karolina Prawda, Lecturer at University of York, on room impulse response measurements (28 Nov 2025)
FRI 28 NOV 2025, 2PM, KCL Waterloo (FWB 1.63) : Karolina Prawda to give talk on room impulse response measurements
Daniel Bedoya, postdoc at University of Lille, on citizen science and fairness in digital music (26 Nov 2025)
WED 26TH NOV 2025, 2PM, KCL STRAND S2.28 : Daniel Bedoya to speak on citizen science annotations of performed music and fairness in music recommendation
Seeing the Unseeable : Exploring the Creative Process in Music and Maths (24 Nov 2025)
MON, 24 Nov 2025, 7-8:30PM, KCL Strand (Edmond J Safra Lecture Theatre) : Emily Howard, Elaine Chew, Lauren Redhead, Marcus du Sautoy with Rachel Bearon on creativity in mathematics and music
Professor Dmitri Tymoczko : Rules of Music in DDH Seminar Series (19 Nov 2025)
WED 19 Nov 2025, 5PM, KCL Strand (Embankment Room) Professor Dmitri Tymoczko to speak on the Rules of Music
Sarah Nicolls and Neil Thomas on Rebuilding the piano (19 Nov 2025)
WED 19 Nov 2025, 2PM, KCL Strand (Room S2.28) Dr Sarah Nicolls and Professor Neil Thomas MBE on making a vertical, lightweight grand piano
Nithya Shikarpur, MIT PhD student, on Generative Modelling and Interactive Performance for Hindustani Music (21 Oct 2025)
TUE 21 OCT 2025, 10:30AM, KCL Waterloo (JCMB 5.15) : Nithya Shikarpur to give talk on generative modelling and interactive performance for Hindustani music
Amy Blier-Carruthers: From Stage to Studio in KCL Music Colloquium (15 Oct 2025)
WED 15 Oct 2025, 4:30PM, KCL Strand (St David’s Room) : Amy Blier-Carruthers to give Music Colloquium on evolution of performance from live on stage to studio recordings
Mark Plumbley joins King’s as Head of Informatics Department
Welcome to Mark Plumbley, well known for work on sound/audio analysis/processing, who joins King’s as Head of Informatics