Here we collect some of the various Outputs of the lab, organised under the following categories:
- Magnetic Interactions as a Somatosensory Interface, Nicola Privato, Thor Magnusson and Einar Torfi Einarsson. Proceedings of the New Interfaces for Musical Expression conference. 2023. [pdf]
- The Living Looper: Rethinking the Musical Loop as a Machine Action-Perception Loop, Victor Shepardson and Thor Magnusson. Proceedings of the New Interfaces for Musical Expression conference. 2023. [pdf]
- Ergodynamics of String Feedback: Control interface design for the halldorophone, Halldor Ulfarsson and Thor Magnusson. Proceedings of the New Interfaces for Musical Expression conference. 2023. [pdf]
- A Scale-Based Ontology of Digital Musical Instrument Design, Jack Armitage, Thor Magnusson and Andrew McPherson. Proceedings of the New Interfaces for Musical Expression conference. 2023. [pdf]
- Studying Subtle and Detailed Digital Lutherie: Motivational Contexts and Technical Needs, Jack Armitage, Thor Magnusson and Andrew McPherson. Proceedings of the New Interfaces for Musical Expression conference. 2023. [pdf]
- Agential Scores: Exploring Emergent, Self-Organising and Entangled Music Notation, Jack Armitage and Thor Magnusson, 8th International Conference on Technologies for Music Notation and Representation (TENOR) 2023, May 16 20223, Northeastern University, Cambridge, MA. [pdf]
- The Magnetic Score: Somatosensory Inscriptions and Relational Design in the Instrument-Score, Nicola Privato, Thor Magnusson and Einar Torfi Einarsson, 8th International Conference on Technologies for Music Notation and Representation (TENOR) 2023, May 16 20223, Northeastern University, Cambridge, MA. [pdf]
- Notochord: A Flexible Probabilistic Model for Real-Time MIDI Performance by Victor Shepardson, Jack Armitage and Thor Magnusson at the Artificial Intelligence and Musical Creativity conference. [pdf]
- Ritualistic Approach to Sonic Interaction Design: A Poetic Framework for Participatory Sonification by Robin Morabito, Jack Armitage and Thor Magnusson at the International Conference for Auditory Display 2022. [pdf]
- Reflexions upon Feedback by Thor Magnusson, Chris Kiefer and Halldor Ulfarsson at the New Interfaces for Musical Expression 2022 Conference. [url]
- The Proto-Langspil: Launching an Icelandic NIME Research Lab with the Help of a Marginalised Instrument by Jack Armitage, Victor Shepardson, Halldor Ulfarsson and Thor Magnusson at the New Interfaces for Musical Expression 2022 Conference. [url]
Honourable Mention for Reproducible Research
- Autocoder: a Variational Autoencoder for Spectral Synthesis by Davíð Brynjar Franzson, Victor Shepardson and Thor Magnusson. At the International Conference for Computer Music [pdf]
- “Exploring XAI for the Arts” by Nick Bryan-Kinns, Berker Banar, Corey Ford, Courtney N. Reed, Yixiao Zhang, Simon Colton, and Jack Armitage at the 1st Workshop on eXplainable AI approaches for debugging and diagnosis at the NeurIPS conference.
- Live Coding: A User’s Manual, by Alan Blackwell, Emma Cocker, Geoff Cox, Alex McLean and Thor Magnusson. 2022. Open Access here. Info at MIT Press
- “Designing the Threnoscope, or, How I Wrote One of My Pieces” by Thor Magnusson in Sound Work: Composition as Critical Technical Practice, published by Orpheus Institut. 2021. [url]
- Snjallhjóðfæri: að skilja gervigreind 21. aldar í gegnum skapandi tónlistartækni by Thor Magnusson. 2021. [url]
- Artificial Intelligence and Music Creativity (August 2023). An international conference with papers, workshops, presentations and performances. [url]
- Embedded AI for NIME: Challenges and Opportunities. Workshop run at NIME with two other institutions. 2022.
- Living Algorithms workshop at Raflost festival. 2022.
- Media Lab Aalto Workshop. Applying ii lab technologies in teaching. 2022.
- Trash Sounds Workshop @ RUSL Festival. 2022.
- Ii lab workshop at Omar festival. Hjalteyri. A workshop in ii lab technologies. 2022.
- HLCI Workshop Online organised by Jack Armitage.
- Panel session: Making art with Machines: Voices, Instruments, Bodies and Sound at the Iceland University of the Arts 2022,
- Moving Strings Symposium (December 2021). An international symposium with workshops, presentations and performances. [url]
- Sema Worshop (September 2021) Mexico City.
- NIFTY workshop. Thor Magnusson presenting ii lab work at instrument design conference.
- HLCI Workshop. Presentation by Victor Shepardson.
- Feedback Musicianship Network workshop. Halldor Ulfarsson and Thor Magnusson. At Aalborg University.
- Nyksund writing residency. Nyksund, Norway. Thor Magnusson. 2022.
- On-the-fly residency. Barcelona. Jack Armitage. 2022.
- Tangible Music Lab residency. Linz. Nicola Privato. 2023.
- “Agentology for Organology: Cyber-, Bio-, & Eco-Semiotic Perspectives on Instrumental Agency” Jack Armitage at Instruments, Interfaces, Infrastructures: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Musical Media, May 11 2023, Harvard University Department of Music, Cambridge, MA
- “In Between the Analogue and the Digital” Thor Magnusson in a panel session at the International Conference on Live Interfaces. ICLI 2022.
- “Keynote at ICLC 2021” Thor Magnusson at the International Conference on Live Coding 2021
- “Sound Seed Automata” Victor Shepardson at HLCI Workshop 2021
- “ROOT Workshop Talk: Creative Misuse of ROOT.” Jack Armitage at CERN workshop 2022.
- “Music Technologies that learn. But what are they learning?” Thor Magnusson at the AIM Queen Mary. 2022.
- “Cling for live coding music and musical instruments.” Jack Armitage at CERN Compiler Research Group
- Technology presentation at Synthabæli/International Synthesizer Day. Reykjavik City Library. Jack Armitage and Steve Symons. 2022.
- “Something About Being Human“ Jonathan Chaim Reus at Artist Talk: Making Art with Machines: Voices, Instruments, Bodies and Sound at the Iceland University of the Arts
- “Performing AI – bodies, sounds and machines“ Marco Donnarumma at Artist Talk: Making Art with Machines: Voices, Instruments, Bodies and Sound at the Iceland University of the Arts. 2022.
- Sounding Smart in Icelandic Review. April/May 2023. [url]
- Að greina gervigreind in Visir by Thor Magnusson. 2023. [url]
- Mun gervigreindin breyta okkur? with Thor Magnusson. Rauða borðið. 2023. [url]
- Náið samband við hljóðfæri með gervigreind. Fréttablaðið. [url]
- Inventing instruments that interact, learn and evolve with the performer at Showcase of citizen science by ERC grantees and other EU-funded projects. 2022. [url]
- Tímamótastyrkur til rannsóknarverkefnis á vegum LHÍ. RÚV. [url]
- Ólátagarður. Jack Armitage at RÚV. [url]
- Four Necks [url]
- Like a Bees Hive [url]
- MOTHERBIRD, Jessica Shand, Manuel Cherep and Jack Armitage, 8th International Conference on Technologies for Music Notation and Representation (TENOR) 2023, May 16 20223, Northeastern University, Cambridge, MA
- FerroNeural, Jack Armitage & Nicola Privato, at Instruments, Interfaces, Infrastructures: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Musical Media, May 11 2023, Harvard University Department of Music, Cambridge, MAs
- RAFLOST Festival Opening Party. Jack Armitage.
- OMAR festival. Victor Shepardson et al.
- Trash Sounds Workshop at RUSL Festival. Final performance.
- Live coding Tidal with Rave. Algorithmic Arts Assembly. Jack Armitage.
- Lil Data at PC Music Vol. 3. London. Jack Armitage.
- Intelligent Instruments’ Birthday Party at Mengi. Marco Donnarumma, Jonathan Chaim Reus, Hekla, Bob & Vic.
Many projects can be found on our GitHub page.