Augmented Vocality
On 1st November 2020 we started Augmented Vocality: Recomposing the Sounds of Early Irish and Old Norse, a new project funded by a grant from the AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council). The project proposes a novel programme of practice-based research and a methodology to analyse and explore the sounds […]
Integra Live
Integra Live is an open source modular environment that makes it easy to use interactive audio processing to create and perform new music. The software was originally supported through the EU-funded Integra – Fusing Music and Technology project, and is now developed by Integra Lab at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. […]
Hearing and Feeling Memories
This project explores how converting an image into sound can be utilised to generate an auditory and tactile relationship with photographs, a medium which ordinarily affects a singular sense.
Photography is a powerful tool for allowing one to preserve and capture a moment in time. However, the medium can become limited […]
HarpCI
HarpCI is a project led by Balandino Di Donato and Eleanor Turner that combines composition and performance with the harp and research in Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and Music Interaction Design (MiXD). Primary outcomes of the project are MyoSpat, a hand gesture control system for manipulation of sound and lights, […]
MyoMapper
MyoMapper is a tool to convert and rescale raw data from the Myo armband and send them to musical applications (e.g. Integra Live, Pd, Max/MSP) through OSC and/or MIDI protocol. It has been developed by Balandino Di Donato at Integra Lab. MyoMapper
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Integra – Fusing Music and Technology
Introduction
Integra – Fusing music and technology was a €3.1m project led by Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and made possible by two large grants from the Culture 2000 and Culture 2007-2013 programmes of the European Union.
Bringing together new music ensembles, research centres and higher music education institutions from eight European countries and Canada, […]
Jonathan Harvey Project
Researchers at Integra Lab have worked extensively with the late British composer Jonathan Harvey to modernise the electronics of his works, and migrate them from obsolete hardware technologies (synthesisers, samplers, effect processors, etc.) to software-based solutions.
Works that we have ‘modernised’ include Valley of Aosta, performed by the Thallein Ensemble […]
LibXtract
LibXtract is a simple, portable, lightweight library of audio feature extraction functions. The purpose of the library is to provide a relatively exhaustive set of feature extraction primatives that are designed to be ‘cascaded’ to create a extraction hierarchies.
For example, ‘variance’, ‘average deviation’, ‘skewness’ and ‘kurtosis’, all require the ‘mean’ […]
ml.lib
ml.lib is a library of machine learning externals for Max and Pure Data. ml.lib is primarily based on the Gesture Recognition Toolkit by Nick Gillian. ml.lib is designed to work on a variety of platforms including OS X, Windows, Linux, on Intel and ARM architectures.
The goal of ml-lib is to provide a simple, consistent interface to […]
Inclusive Digital Instruments
Deaf musicians tend to favour acoustic instruments – quite often percussion –which produce a distinct physical feedback from vibration generated by the instrument, alongside more subtle visual clues. However, using electronic instruments, they often find it more difficult to resolve some of the characteristics of sound, such as pitch and […]
Transforming Transformation
Our Transforming Transformation project seeks to explore new approaches to sound synthesis and transformation within immersive environments.
The first phase of this is ‘Transforming Transformation: 3D Models for Interactive Sound Design’, an AHRC-funded project in collaboration with Glasgow School of Art’s Digital Design Studios and Two Big Ears.
The project opens up […]