Seminar at the Department of Early Irish, Maynooth University
We're delighted to be talking about (and demonstrating) Augmented Vocality at the Department of Early Irish, Maynooth University, on the 20th of October at 5pm. Edmund Hunt, Mohamed El Idrissi, Joe Wright and Lamberto Coccioli will be present (online and in person) at the 2nd Floor Seminar Room, Iontas Building, [...]
Integra Lab At ADC 2017
Earlier this month, we at the Integra Lab attended the Audio Developers Conference at the CodeNode, London. ADC began as the JUCE summit, a conference hosted by ROLI for users of the JUCE framework and audio developers to extend their knowledge on audio application development and software design. Over the [...]
Integra Lab at ICMC/EMW 2017
This year’s International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) was hosted at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music in conjunction with Shanghai’s Electronic Music Week (EMW) festival. Balandino Di Donato and James Dooley from Integra Lab attended the conference to present a paper on the MyoSpat gesture-controlled audiovisual system. They were accompanied by [...]
Music Gesture Beatbox
Music Gesture Beatbox is a project born from a collaboration between Balandino and Grace Savage, who will be performing at MTFBerlin existing and new material using the outcome of Balandino Di Donato’s research on gestural control to manipulate lighting states, visual projection and sound FX via loop station and a dedicated [...]
Designing a human-centred system for sound transformation
At its core our AHRC Digital Transformations project "Transforming Transformation" has a simple aim: to instigate a new way of transforming sound that radically improves on existing approaches. The current state of the art If a music producer or sound designer wants to transform a sound, for example by applying [...]
Highlights from NIME 2015
The New Interfaces for Musical Expression conference (or NIME) is a conference that started out as a workshop at the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) in 2001. It’s an international conference, with approximately 250–500 attendees annually and one of the bigger music technology / computer music conferences. [...]
AHRC Digital Transformations project begins
We are delighted to announce the beginning of our AHRC-funded Digital Transformations project, titled "Transforming Transformation: 3D Models for Interactive Sound Design". This will be a 12-month collaboration with Glasgow School of Art's Digital Design studios, world leaders in digital interaction and visualisation and commercial partners TwoBigEars, experts in developing [...]
Incorporating-haptic-feedback-into-musical-instrument-performance
The London based company Precision Microdrives mention my work on their blog. I’ve been using their motors in my work with vibrotactile feedback. Really impressed how they encapsulate the essence of my work in a few lines “The harder you strum a guitar, the more you feel it vibrate. Similarly, kick a [...]