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Sound and Music Interaction Seminars

Sound and Music Interaction Seminars is a seminar series organized by the Sound and Music Computing group at the division of Media Technology and Interaction Design, KTH.

All seminars are also in zoom: kth-se.zoom.us/j/62182993824

RSS feed of the upcoming seminar: link

Upcoming seminars:

  • 2024-02-21, 16:00: Angelica Lim, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, Multimodal Machine Learning for Social Robots [ link ]
  • 2024-02-23, 10:00: KC Collins, PhD Associate Director, School of Information Technology, Carleton University, CA, Hello Accomplice: Robot Sound & Anthropomorphism [ link ]
  • 2024-02-23, 11:00: Heather Knight, Assistant Professor, Computer Science, Oregon State University, USA, Best Practices for Robot Death [ link ]

Past seminars:

  • 2023-12-11, 11:30: Emma Nyberg, Project Leader of the Baltic Sea Festival , Stockholm, Sweden, "I have a Dream..." - Baltic Sea Festival: What is music needed for in a sustainable society? This talk is part of the NAVET WEEK 2023  [ link ]
  • 2023-12-12, 10:30: Anita Zanella, Researcher at INAF National Institute of Astrophysics, Padova, Italy, The Audible Universe. This talk is part of the NAVET WEEK 2023  (Please notice that this presentation has a different zoom link) [ link ]
  • 2023-11-28: Andry Chowanda, BINUS University, Indonesia - Emotional and Socially Realistic Virtual Human with Personality Framework [ link ]
  • 2023-10-27: Adrian Latupeirissa, PhD Candidate, KTH, and Tony Belpaeme, discussant, Professor at Ghent University, October 27th 2023, 9:00, 80% seminar: Adopting Film Sound Design to Foster Sonic Expression in Social Robots through Interactive Sonification [ link ]
  • 2023-10-03: Mattias Sköld, KMH Royal College of Music and KTH, October 3rd 2023, 15:00, Presentation of Thor Magnusson’s "Sonic Writing" [ link ]
  • 2023-09-05: Patrick O'Toole, PhD Student, University College Cork, Ireland, September 5th 2023, 15:00, Perception of musical notes in the visual modality: using synaesthesia to explore auditory-visual associations [ link ]

  • 2023-06-09: John Bowers, Independent Artist-Researcher and Visiting Scholar SARC, Queen's University Belfast, UK, June 9 2023, 15:00, Many Makings: Towards a Integrated Practice of Musical Design, Performance, and Pedagogy [ link ]

  • 2023-05-30: Sara Lenzi, Delft University of Technology, May 3oth 2023, 15:00, The Design of Data Sonification - Towards shared methods and tools [ link ]
  • 2023-05-16: Ines Bartl, KTH Lighting Design Laboratory, May 16 2023, 15:00, Soundforest 2.0 - The role of lighting in inclusive interactive museum installations [ link ]
  • 2023-05-02: Bertrand Chavarria-Aldrete, Malmö Academy of Music, Lund University, May 2nd 2023, 15:00, Plastic Extension of Music [ link ]
  • 2023-04-18: Alexander Sonnenfeld, sxratch.com , April 18th 2023, 15:00, Music notation for sample-based music [ link ]

  • 2022-12-13: Stefan Carlén, Handels, December 13th 2022, 15:00 - Music in the store: How music affects retail workers [ link ]
  • 2022-11-29: Viveka Lyberg Åhlander, Åbo Akademi University, Finland/Lund University, Sweden, November 29th 2022, 15:00 - How the blind audience receive and experience audio descriptions of visual events. Does the quality or the interpreter’s voice and speech matter? [ link ]

  • 2022-11-15: Emelie Stuxberg Staël von Holstein, Meal experience manager, ICA Sverige AB, November 15th 2022, 15:00 - How and why we should make grocery shopping a sensory experience [ link ]

  • 2022-10-18: Hannah Pelikan, Linköping University, October 18th 2022, 15:00 - Sound in Human-Robot Interaction [ link ]

  • 2022-10-04: George Kentros & Mattias Peterson, KMH Royal College of Music, October 4th 2022, 15:00 - Back to the future! [ link ]

  • 2022-09-20: Pia Bigdéus, Linnaeus University/The Swedish Royal Academy of Music - Making space for singing tools in the 21st century classroom [ link ]

  • 2022 Petri Laukka, Stockholm University, June 14th 2022, 15:00 - "Expression of Emotion in Voices and Faces" [ link ]
  • 2022 Werner Goebl, University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, May 31st 2022, 15:00 - "Using semantic score encodings for music performance research" [ link ]

  • 2022 Dario Sanfilippo, May 17th 2022, 14:00 - "Musical complex adaptive systems (CASs)" [ link ]
  • 2022 Prithvi Ravi Kantan, Aalborg University, May 3rd 2022, 15:00 - "Let Music Show You the Way: Sonifying Movement to Augment Rehabilitation" [ link ]
  • 2022 Artemi-Maria Gioti, April 19th- "Authorship, Agency and Distributed Creativity in Interactive Musical Works" [ link ]

  • 2022 Hiroko Terasawa, University of Tsukuba, Japan, February 22nd - "Music in Quarantine" [ link ]
  • 2022 Paola Torres Núñez del Prado, February 8th 2022 - "The Sonified Textiles: Crafting The Tangible Sounds of Transculturality" [ link ]
  • 2022 Jenny Sunesson, SKH, January 25th 2022- "IMAGINEERING FRAGMEDIALITIES - Field recording and mapping practices as rituals for listening, exploring and re-imagining space" [ link ]
  • 2021 Pierre Alexandre Tremblay, December 7th 2021 - "Many Hinges and other Problematic Metaphors: programmatic data mining towards Fluid Corpus Manipulation"
  • 2021 Thomas Grill, November 2nd 2021 - "Rotting sounds – Digitality and materiality" [ link ]
  • 2021 Susanne Rosenberg, KMH, October 19th 2021 - "Folk Song Lab" [ link ]
  • 2021 MID Researchers at SMC, HRI, and ISMIR conferences, October 5th, 2021 [ link ]
  • 2021 KTH at the New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME21), September 7th, 2021 [ link ]
  • 2021 Anna Lundh, Konstfack, June 15th 2021 - "Sound and Time" [ link ]
  • 2021 Niklas Rönnberga and Elias Elmquist, Linköping University, June 1st 15:00, 2021 - "Sonification for communication" [ link ]
  • 2021 Mikko Ojanen, University of Helsinki, May 18th 15:00 2021- "User stories of Erkki Kurenniemi’s electronic musical instruments, 1961–1978" [ link ]
  • 2021 Martin Parker, The University of Edinburgh - "Live by the sword...", April 20th 2021, 15:00 [ link ]
  • 2021 Joshua Reiss - "Disruptive innovation in sound design and audio production". March 23rd 2021, 15:00 [ link ]
  • 2021 Ricardo Atienza - "The listening eye: A pedagogical experience: graphic tools for thinking sound". March 9th 2021, 15:00 [ link ]
  • 2021 Sol Andersson - "The Guerrilla Setup – a Meditation on Freedom". February 23rd, 15:00 [ link ]
  • 2021 Fiona Keenan - "The Complexities of Simple Actions: Designing Sonic Affordances for Performance". Sound and Music Interaction Seminar #7, February 9th, 15:00 [ link ]
  • 2021, January 26th 2021, 15:00. Sound and Music Interaction Seminar #6: Martin Ljungdahl Eriksson - "Designing the unnoticeable" [ link ]
  • 2021, January 12th, 15:00. Sound and Music Interaction Seminar #5: Rod Selfridge - "Space, Place, Sound & Memory: Hearing Historic Scotland" [ link ]

  • 2020, December 2nd, 15:00. Sound and Music Interaction Seminar #4: Johan Fröst - "With Music as a Script: Intermedial narrative between classical art music and moving image" [ link ]

  • 2020, November 17th, 15:00. Sound and Music Interaction Seminar #3: Ana Clemente - "Aesthetic Sensitivity and Perceived Affect" [ link ]
  • 2020, November 3rd, 15:00. Sound and Music Interaction Seminar #2: Andreas Bergsland - "Aesthetics, technology and site-specificity in two artistic interactive performances" [ link ]
  • 2020, October 20th , 15:00. Sound and Music Interaction Seminar #1: Mattias Sköld - "Pierre Schaeffer - introducing sound as music" [ ]