Music and Human Centred Computing

Topic Description

Applications and enquiries are welcome in any of the following areas, or in any area related to HCI and Music. Applicants are very welcome to devise their own topics

• Any aspect of Music and HCI
• Computational Models of Music Perception
• Physical, Gestural or Sensing Interfaces
• Music and the Internet of Things
• Music Technology for Rehabilitation and Therapy
• New Musical Instruments
• Collaborative Music Interaction
• Evolutionary and Biologically inspired Music Systems
• Music Representation
• New Interactive Tools for interplay between Rhythm, Harmony, Melody or Timbre.
• Interactive Music Systems
• New kinds of Musical Interaction
• New approaches to traditional musical activities
• Tools that make new kinds of musical activity possible
• Innovative approaches to technology for Music Education

More information can be found on the Music Computing Lab website. 

Skills Required:

A background in Computing or Music or HCI or ethnography or some cognate subject will be very helpful. Musical skill and experience - though not necessarily formal - is important.

Background Reading:

Various relevant publications can be found on the Music Computing Lab publications list. 

If you have library access, see also the book 'Music and Human Computer Interaction" edited by Holland, Wilkie, Mulholland and Seago, though this reading is not essential.