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Welcome to Integra Lab

Integra Lab is the music interaction research lab founded by Jamie Bullock and Lamberto Coccioli in 2009, at the end of the first phase of the EU-funded Integra – Fusing Music and Technology project. The experience of Integra convinced us that musician-centred interaction design and sustainability of live electronic music were two promising but relatively neglected areas of practice-based research. Integra Lab was set up to expand our work in those areas and continue the development of the Integra Live software.

Music

Music

Based at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire in the UK, we collaborate with performers, composers and sound artists, supporting them in the creation and performance of innovative music projects.

Research

Research

We bring together musicians, researchers, designers and developers to explore music and human-computer interaction.

Innovation

Innovation

We are motivated by producing work that benefits the arts, culture and the wider society. Alongside our research and creative projects, we have a growing portfolio of external collaborations.

Our Work

Blog

Integra Lab is a continually evolving group of talented individuals working on a variety of different projects. Our blog is a one-stop place to keep up to date with both our work and research.

406, 2021

Choosing Texts: A Composer’s Perspective

By |June 4th, 2021|

How does a creative project begin? What are the steps that will lead from an idea to its realisation? There are as many answers to this question as there are works of art, be they musical compositions, poems, staged productions, or digital media. In the case of Augmented Vocality, [...]

2801, 2021

Different Islands

By |January 28th, 2021|

Different Islands by Edmund Hunt, for dancer, string quartet and live electronics, began as a project to investigate creative approaches to an Old English text known as ‘Wulf and Eadwacer’. By embedding the untranslated text within disparate elements of musical composition, dance and live electronics, the project seeks to explore [...]

2701, 2021

Still Life

By |January 27th, 2021|

Still Life is a new work by Yixuan Zhao, realised in two separate versions. The piano solo version was commissioned by Spanish pianist Laura Farré Rozada, M4C Ph.D candidate at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, and was officially released by Seed Music in January 2021, as part of Laura's album 'Nimbus', [...]

1801, 2021

A-D-S-R

By |January 18th, 2021|

In recent months Matthew has been developing the installation A-D-S-R, an interactive haptic installation that explores how photographs—a medium which ordinarily only affect a single sense—can be turned into sound and haptic feedback via the use of a SUBPAC. After the loss of his father in April 2019, Matthew [...]

2812, 2020

Riffs editorial

By |December 28th, 2020|

After having been guest editor of the July 2020 issue of Riffs, the journal of experimental writing on popular music, Edmund Hunt has been invited back for the December 2020 issue. In his editorial Edmund reflects on our ambivalence towards technology, especially at a time when we are all so dependent [...]

Events

On Tuesday the 31st of January, Edmund Hunt and Joe Wright will talk about the creation, development and [...]

Augmented Vocality Concert #2

6 November 2022 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm UTC+0

The second performance of Edmund Hunt's Augmented Vocality compositions will take place in Birmingham on Sunday the 6th [...]

Augmented Vocality Concert #1

28 October 2022 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm UTC+0

The first of our Augmented Vocality concerts takes place at the Sonic Arts Research Centre, Queens University [...]

NIME 2020

21 July 2020 - 25 July 2020

About NIME 2020 Integra Lab successfully hosted NIME 2020, the New Interfaces for Musical Expression [...]

TiMP 2019

3 December 2019

About TiMP 2019 TiMP 2019 is the first one-day conference organised by TiMP - Technology [...]

Arduino Day

12 May 2018

About Arduino Day Arduino Day is a worldwide birthday celebration of Arduino. It's a 24 [...]

MiXD: Music Interaction Design

Music Interaction Design is at the heart of Integra Lab’s activities. We have gained considerable reputation in music and human-computer interaction, culminating in our hosting of NIME – the New Interfaces for Musical Expression International Conference – in July 2020. Our research work focuses mainly on:

  • Developing interactive systems for music creation, performance and education;
  • Undertaking applied and practice-led research in musical creativity and sustainability of music with live electronics.

As pioneers of the conceptual framework ‘musician-centred design’, we place musicians and music making at the heart of what we do, developing technologies that empower users and let them think musically. The Integra Live software, for example, was specifically conceived to support musicians in the design and control of their live interaction with electronics.

Composition and performance with technology

Integra Lab has a strong history of supporting the production of compositions and performances, and exploring novel applications of technology both in the creative process and in performance. We have worked on a range of composition and performance projects with composers such as Jonathan Harvey, Kaija Saariaho, Julian Anderson, Hilda Paredes and Philippe Leroux, to name just a few. Outputs from Integra Lab members include works for instruments and live electronics, digital instruments, mixed media and audiovisual, and sonic installations. The Technology in Music Performance (TiMP) Study Group of the Royal Musical Association is based at Integra Lab, and in December 2019 we hosted TiMP’s first Symposium.

Sustainability of music with live electronics

Ensuring the long and successful life of musical works using interactive technologies is a complex and challenging proposition, involving many artistic and technical considerations. Integra Lab’s members have considerable experience in providing training and support to ensembles and composers in the performance of works from the live electronics repertoire that make use of technologies now obsolete. We have “modernized” works by Pierre Boulez, Luigi Nono, Roger Reynolds, Edwin Roxburgh, Tristan Murail, Luca Francesconi, Jonathan Harvey, Philippe Hurel and many others, often working directly with the composers themselves, and we have supported performances of the new versions of the works all over the world.

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Funded Research

Over the past ten years our team has secured over £2m in grants and research funding.

Who we are

The lab team is an experienced group of musicians, designers and developers with expertise in interaction design, music composition and performance with live electronics, digital musical instrument design, haptic interaction, gestural control and mixed reality.

Lamberto Coccioli
Lamberto Coccioli
Professor of Music and Technology
Richard Cornock
Richard Cornock
Head of Technical Production
Simon Hall
Simon Hall
Head of Music Technology
Edmund Hunt
Edmund Hunt
Post-Doctoral Researcher
Joe Wright
Joe Wright
Lecturer in Music Technology
Yixuan Zhao
Yixuan Zhao
Visiting Scholar, CCOM, Beijing

Past Members

Jamie Bullock
Jamie Bullock
Audio Software Developer, LANDR
Jefferson Bledsoe
Jefferson Bledsoe
Software Developer, PretaGov
Richard Burn
Richard Burn
Lecturer, University of Wolverhampton
Luiz Castelões
Luiz Castelões
Professor, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Brazil
Balandino Di Donato
Balandino Di Donato
Lecturer in Interactive Audio, Edinburgh Napier University
James Dooley
James Dooley
Lecturer, The Open University
Matthew Evans
Matthew Evans
PhD Candidate
Niccolò Granieri
Niccolò Granieri
Researcher and developer, Trieste
Tychonas Michailidis
Tychonas Michailidis
Lecturer, Digital Media Technology Lab, BCU

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