Here we collect some of the various Outputs of the lab, organised under the following categories:

• Conference Papers
• Books and Book chapters
• Journal articles
• Hosted Symposia and Workshops
• Workshop Participation
• Residencies
• Presentations
• Public Media
• Performances
• Consultancies
• Open Source

Conference Papers

2023

• 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]

2022

• 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]

2021

• “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.

Books and Book chapters

• 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]

Journal articles

• Snjallhjóðfæri: að skilja gervigreind 21. aldar í gegnum skapandi tónlistartækni by Thor Magnusson. 2021. [url]

Hosted Conferences, Symposia and Workshops

• 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.

Workshop Participation

• 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.

Residencies

• Nyksund writing residency. Nyksund, Norway. Thor Magnusson. 2022.
• On-the-fly residency. Barcelona. Jack Armitage. 2022.
• Tangible Music Lab residency. Linz. Nicola Privato. 2023.

Presentations

• “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.

Public Media

• 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]

Performances

• 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.

Consultancies

• Jack Armitage was a technical consultant on the soundtrack for Apple TV+ sci-fi series Silo, working with INNI Music founder and composer Atli Örvarsson.
• Thor Magnusson was a consultant on the Turn it Up exhibition in the Science and Industry Museum in Manchester.

Open Source

Many projects can be found on our GitHub page.

• sound-seed-automata - https://github.com/victor-shepardson/sound-seed-automata
• rave-supercollider - https://github.com/victor-shepardson/rave-supercollider
• tidal-rave - https://github.com/jarmitage/tidal-rave
• Taichi_Lenia - https://github.com/jarmitage/Taichi_Lenia
• RapidLibBela - https://github.com/jarmitage/RapidLibBela
• ScalaScales - https://github.com/Intelligent-Instruments-Lab/ScalaScales
• proto-langspil - https://github.com/Intelligent-Instruments-Lab/proto-langspil
• iil-python-tools - https://github.com/Intelligent-Instruments-Lab/iil-python-tools