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
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
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
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!
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
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
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
Vanessa Pope on Timing Structures in Live Comedy in KCL Computational Humanities Seminar
WED 1 Oct 2025, 5PM, KCL : Vanessa Pope to give Computational Humanities Seminar on Timing Structures in Live Comedy
Music-based Research at ESC Congress 2025 together with World Congress of Cardiology
Natalia Cotic gives talk on Digital Health Stage and Poulomi Pal gives two moderated poster presentations at ESC 2025
Elaine Chew And Gérard Assayag Lecture At The Shanghai Conservatory Of Music
Elaine Chew gives lecture, “At the Heart of Musical Expression” and Gerard Assayag “Symbolic Interaction and Cocreativity” at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music
Lane Hughston from Goldsmiths on geometric and graph properties of the tonnetz
THU, 15 May 2025, 3PM, KCL Bush House : Professor Lane Hughston from Goldsmiths to give talk on three tone networks and a tessellation
Workshop on performance, creativity, and AI at Guildhall organised by Oded Ben-Tal
30-31 March 2025, GSMD : Elaine Chew is a presenter in Oded Ben-Tal’s music and AI symposium at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with David Dolan, Örjan de Manzano, Gerard Assayag, Arthur I. Miller, Grace Leslie, Toby Young, and Fredrik Ullén
Jason Yust of Boston University gives inaugural Music Computing Lab seminar
TUE, 25 March 2025, 3PM, KCL Strand : Jason Yust speaks on DFT-based methods to explain emergent patterns in musical rhythms in inaugural seminar of the Music Computing Lab, a MARC member lab
Elaine Chew featured on MITAA Video, Music to Make the Heart Sing, together with Mateusz Soliński and Poulomi Pal
Professor of Engineering Elaine Chew with postdocs Dr Mateusz Soliński and Dr Poulomi Pal are featured in MIT Alumni Association video on physiological (cardiovascular) impacts of music
Elaine Chew is panelist in Portrait Of The Artist In The Age Of AI at Institut Français’ Night of Ideas
Elaine Chew (ERC COSMOS) collaborates with Gérard Assayag (ERC REACH) in a semi-improvised dialogue with generative AI somax2 amidst heart-breath visualisations by heartfm, followed by panel discussion on AI’s impact on art creation
Patricia Alessandrini gives BMEIS CDT Seminar on Creating An Empathetic “Pet” Capable Of Singing With Soft Robotics
WED, 29 January 2025, KCL Becket House : Composer and artistic researcher Patricia Alessandrini shows connections between a soft robot of the larynx, an empathetic nudibranch-like pet that sings, and contemporary opera
Julie Meyer joins Engineering as Lecturer in Signals Engineering
Julie Meyer, an expert in room acoustics, spatial audio, and auditory perception, joins King’s Engineering in January 2025 as a lecturer in Signals Engineering
Konstanze Rietsch gives Geometry Seminar on Generalising Euler’s Tonnetz
TUE, 21 January 2025, KCL Strand : Professor of Geometry Konstanze Rietsch generalises Euler’s Tonnetz using Fano’s geometry and collaborates with Professor Elaine Chew to compose Fano Rainbow
Mark Gotham joins Digital Humanities as Senior Lecturer in Cultural Computation
Mark Gotham joins King’s College London as Senior Lecturer in Cultural Computation in June 2024. His research specialises in computational methods for music theory, analysis, and composition
Michele Orini joins BMEIS as Senior Lecturer in Healthcare Engineering
Michele Orini joins BMEIS in April 2024 as Senior Lecturer in Healthcare Engineering. His research interests include wearables and remote sensing for health, signal processing, computational medicine, and the effect of music on cardiovascular function