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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

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

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

Julie Meyer presents research on room acoustics in Southampton ISVR seminar

WED 24 Sep 2025, U Southampton : Julie Meyer presents ISVR Seminar, “Numerical and perceptual evaluations of finite-diff time-domain simulations for room acoustics applications”

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

Natalia Cotic and Mateusz Soliński present at IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference

Natalia Cotic and Mateusz Soliński represented the COSMOS project at the 47th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC)

Julie Meyer presents at Forum Acusticum – Euronoise 2025

Julie Meyer gave a presentation at Forum Acusticum – Euronoise held in Málaga from 23-26 June 2025. The talk, titled Accommodation to virtual sound rendering in a reverberant room with 3DoF and 6DoF interaction, was part of the session on “Virtual acoustics…

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

Natalia Cotic Presents Music-Physiology Research at BMEIS Postgraduate Research Symposium

Natalia Cotic showed her work on cardiorespiratory entrainment to phrase arcs as part of the research showcase at the BMEIS PGR Symposium

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

Julie Meyer presents at the DAS | DAGA Annual Meeting on Acoustics 2025

Julie Meyer gives acoustic AR talk exploring dynamic binaural rendering approaches at the DAS | DAGA conference in Copenhagen

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

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

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