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Our group focuses on various topics including:

• Developing and designing Interactive & Intelligent Music Technologies (I2MT).

• Understanding human computer & AI interactions in musicking.

• Understanding musicking practices with I2MT.

• Enhancing human creativity with AI.

• Developing new forms of music expression in VR

Funded projects

• Digiscore: ERC Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme​

• Instrumenting Instruments, Somabotics: Creatively Embodying AI UKRI Turing AI Fellowship​

• Xtreme: Mixed Reality Environment for Immersive Experience of Art and Culture (EU Horizon Europe project)​

• Immersive Music with AI: REF Enchancement fund​

• Resonant Worlds – AI, Emotion, and the Human Spirit: EPSRC Outreach & Widening Participation Funding​

• Beyond Resonance: New Worlds, New Partnerships to fuse Music, Visual Arts and AI: AHRC IAA Mode A grant

Awards

• Sound of the Year (2025, Craig Vear)

• Global Tech award (2025, Craig Vear)

• Rising Talent Award form Women's Forum for Economy and Society, Paris, France (2024, Anna Shvets)

Publications

• AVILA, J. M., CAVDIR D., REED, C. N., MAINSBRIDGE, M., GRIMSTAD BANG, T. and MONTESINOS GARCIA, L. (2025). "Somatic and somaesthetic design practices” In: Proceedings of NIME.
• CLIFFE, L. KHAN, M. and BENFORD, S. (2025). In the middle of the music: A qualitative study of headset and loudspeaker distributed interactive spatial audio within a musical mixed-reality environment. In: Proceedings of 2025 ACM Audio Mostly, Coimbra, Portugual.​
• MILES, O., HAZZARD, A., MOROZ, S., BISHOP, L. and VEAR, C. (2025). Meaningful Interactions in Human-AI Musicking. In: Proceedings of 2025 ACM Audio Mostly, Coimbra, Portugual​.
• SHVETS, A. (2025). NeRF and Niagara Particles System - Transforming Classical Music Composition into Interactive Music VR Experience. Proceeding of EVA London 2025, London, 7–11 July 2025, pp. 95-100. Retrieved from https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.14236/ewic/EVA2025.20
• BENFORD, S., McGARRY, G., HAZZARD, A., CHAMBERLAIN, A., GIBSON, R., & MARTINEZ AVILA, J. P. (2024). Augmenting musical instruments with digital identities. Journal of New Music Research, 1–20.​

• VEAR, C., BENFORD, S., AVILA, J. M., & MOROZ, S. (2023). Human-AI Musicking: A Framework for Designing AI for Music Co-creativity. AIMC 2023. Retrieved from: https://aimc2023.pubpub.org/pub/zd46l

• AVILA, J. M., HAZZARD, A., GREENHALGH, C., BENFORD, S., & MCPHERSON, A. (2023). The Stretchy Strap: supporting encumbered interaction with guitars. Journal of New Music Research, 1-22. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09298215.2023.2274832