Why, for the love of all things good and holy, do so many journals still require submissions in Microsoft Word format?

Great to have the opportunity to present a paper by @francisco-bernardo.bsky.social, myself, and @apmcpherson.bsky.social at DAFx 2025: "Impedance Synthesis for Hybrid Analog-Digital Audio effects". The work, led by Francisco, integrates digital systems into analog circuits bidirectionally.

AI music promised freedom from hard-coded rules that were needed in pre-ML approaches to music generation. No theory, no grammar, no bias — just pure music learned directly from data. Our new @tismir.bsky.social article tears down that myth. transactions.ismir.net/articles/10....

Looking forward to giving a keynote talk today at DAFX 2025 in Ancona. It's going to be ... different. Introducing my new conspiracy theory (ask at your own risk!).

The Dyson School of Design Engineering at Imperial College London is hiring a full-time electronics technician. Come join a wonderfully eclectic group of staff and students, and help us support great facilities and build cool stuff! Applications close 12 September: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOF152/t...

Out now! GLOW for Magnetic Resonator Piano, chamber ensemble and electronics - delighted to be featured on @nmcrecordings.bsky.social nmcrecs.lnk.to/Glow @apmcpherson.bsky.social @cmcireland.bsky.social

We're approaching the last 24 hours of the Bela Gem campaign. Check out all the campaign updates on technical details and stories from the Bela community. The campaign offers the lowest pricing and the earliest delivery, so this is the time to sign up! www.crowdsupply.com/bela/bela-ge...

New release alert! My new piece GLOW featuring @apmcpherson.bsky.social Magnetic Resonator Piano + Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble comes out this Friday on @nmcrecordings.bsky.social @prsfoundation.bsky.social pre-save link here nmcrecs.lnk.to/Glow

Bela Gem Multi just got more capable! Our latest Crowd Supply update describes the new features on DC-coupled audio inputs and PDM microphone support: www.crowdsupply.com/bela/bela-ge...

New on the Bela Gem campaign: a look at running AI models on Bela, featuring Augmented Instruments Lab PhD student @tpelinski.bsky.social who explains her pybela package for exchanging data between Bela and python notebooks: www.crowdsupply.com/bela/bela-ge...

Update from the Bela Gem campaign: interviews with members of Studio Olafur Eliasson, who used Bela for sound in their latest installation, and with Halldór Úlfarsson, creator of the amazing halldorophone feedback instrument. Those and more projects here: www.crowdsupply.com/bela/bela-ge...

Bela Gem (the ultra-low latency embedded audio platform) is 99.8% funded on Crowd Supply. Literally the next backer will take us over the line! Keep an eye on the campaign for a bunch of great updates over the next couple weeks: www.crowdsupply.com/bela/bela-ge...

The latest from the Bela Gem campaign: profiles of Bela co-founder Robert Jack and instrument maker Rafaele Andrade whose 16-string cello "Knurl" runs SuperCollider on Bela: www.crowdsupply.com/bela/bela-ge...

A detailed look at the physical construction of the new Bela Gem: www.crowdsupply.com/bela/bela-ge.... Campaign running on Crowd Supply through 30 July.

Just launched! Bela Gem is our new family of ultra-low-latency embedded audio boards based on PocketBeagle 2, with a quad-core 1.4GHz processor, 24/96 audio, 16-bit analog inputs. Comes in stereo and 10-channel versions. www.crowdsupply.com/bela/bela-ge...

Bela Gem is launching soon on Crowd Supply. This is the biggest overhaul of Bela since 2016, with a quad-core 1.4GHz processor, up to 10 channels in/out of 24bit/96kHz audio, and a brand new browser-based IDE. Subscribe to be the first to know when it launches: www.crowdsupply.com/bela/bela-ge...

NIME 2026 is coming to London! 23-26 June 2026. General chairs Courtney Reed (Loughborough University London, Augmented Instruments Lab alum) and me. More details soon!

Xiaowan Yi and Jordie Shier present “Diffy” on the last night of NIME 2025.

Nicole Robson presenting at NIME 2025 on sonic entanglements in the composition of an ultrasonic art installation (paper: nime.org/proceedings/...)

Charis Saitis on timbre at NIME (paper: nime.org/proceedings/...): “NIME has a difficulty of talking about musical aesthetics. It is much easier to talk about control structures!”

Otherworldly sounds from an electromagnetically bowed autoharp by Adam Schmidt, ahead of a poster/demo session on the Sparksichord (paper: nime.org/proceedings/...)

NIME 2025 posters from Teresa Pelinski (pybela - nime.org/proceedings/...), Brittney Allen (BRAIDS_ - nime.org/proceedings/...) and Franco Caspe (BRAVE - nime.org/proceedings/...)

Jordie Shier presents “Designing Percussive Timbre Remappings” at NIME 2025 (paper: nime.org/proceedings/...)

Lewis Wolstanholme presenting at NIME 2025 on drum modal feedback (read our paper with Jordie Shier and Rodrigo Constanzo: nime.org/proceedings/...)

London 6 July! I will play the #magneticresonatorpiano designed by @apmcpherson.bsky.social in my new piece GLOW featuring Hard Rain Ensemble and spooky 👻 ghost story narration with video art by Steve Lee. It’s free, but you have to book. ✨ @prsfoundation.bsky.social @cmcireland.bsky.social

Impeach.

Exciting news from our secret headquarters at Bela: we've launched Bela Gem, the biggest hardware update to Bela in 10 years. Quad-core processor, high-spec audio, new IDE and more! The campaign will go live on CrowdSupply soon; subscribe at the link for more: www.crowdsupply.com/bela/bela-ge...

Barry was my Master's thesis advisor in the early 2000's. He was not only a technical pioneer, but also a sensitive musician whose love of the Second Viennese School still stays with me, and he was a generous mentor who gave his students support to explore widely. He will be greatly missed.

Headed to Australia next week for NIME 2025 in Canberra! Several lab members are presenting papers this year, including a lot of collaborative projects. PDFs are all here: instrumentslab.org/publications/ [thread]

If you had any doubt before about the necessity of public protest to oppose this lawless regime, I hope you now understand that if a US senator is not safe, none of us are safe--and we must join together in the millions in response to these criminals.

Lesson 13 of "On Tyranny": Practice corporeal politics. Find your No Kings protest, June 14th.

Starting in 30 minutes! Live stream link: www.youtube.com/live/3XWCVmF...

Two major magnetic resonator piano performances are coming up by @xeniapestova.bsky.social and the Hard Rain Ensemble. The first is this weekend in Bradford: bradford2025.co.uk/event/glow/. Then another show in the London Southbank Centre on 6 July: www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/glow/

Join us Friday 11am London time for an AIL Open Seminar by Maxime Popoff on low-latency multichannel FPGA audio synthesis. Streaming at youtube.com/c/AugmentedInstrumentsLab or DM for in-person joining details!

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

I have three ghost stories: a strange light engulfs a sailing ship. Distant lights beguile a traveller at night. A glowing sphere enters a room. Experience “GLOW” live at @prsfoundation.bsky.social New Music Biennial - premiere in Bradford Sunday 8 June bradford2025.co.uk/event/glow/

A noble calling, thanks to all who serve.

The regime is forcing thousands of international students at Harvard to transfer to other universities or lose their visas and has cancelled all NSF PhD funding, because Harvard refuses to bend the knee. Straight up fascism. Might as well be Moscow. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Augmented Instruments Lab Open Seminar #009: Critical Sound Synthesis - MORE ROAR! by John Richards and Agnes Cameron. Friday 11am UK time, in person at Imperial College London and streaming online. Details: instrumentslab.org/news/2025/05...

Augmented Instruments Lab Open Seminar #009: Critical Sound Synthesis - MORE ROAR! by John Richards and Agnes Cameron. Friday 11am UK time, in person at Imperial College London and streaming online. Details: instrumentslab.org/news/2025/05...

Lab concert tonight at Piehouse in London! Link below to register for free tickets.

come to the next Augmented Instruments Lab Concert!! tickets are free, lab members are showing some of their latest artefacts 🎸🎺🎷🥁📯🪕🪘🎛️🎹🎚️🎤 www.outsavvy.com/event/27053/...

Performance on 12 May at Piehouse Co-op in London: Shifted, an Augmented Instruments Laboratory Showcase. Doors 7pm; free entry. Details: instrumentslab.org/news/events/...

ATTENTION: NSF GRANT RECIPIENTS We received a heads up from a trusted source that you should proactively download/print/screen shot any documentation on research.gov pertaining to your NSF awards, both those that are current and any that have closed in the last 5-6 years. 1/n

Videos from the Embedded Algorithms Workshop at Berlin Open Lab: we start with the presentations by @violayip.bsky.social and @apmcpherson.bsky.social of Augmented Instruments Lab and Bela. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Authoritarianism in action - a kill shot aimed at the head of Columbia. Must be resisted if academic freedom is to be preserved and to prevent this playbook from being extended to future targets across civil society.

Bluesky has overtaken its flailing rival X in hosting posts related to new academic research, indicating the platform is fast becoming the go-to place for scholars to share their work #AcademicSky #EduSky

Starting at 12:30 London time today - presentation by composer/performer Alexander Hawkins, "Some questions in the field: a performer in conversation with new instruments". Live streaming: www.youtube.com/live/dOFAY2A...

DOGE has terminated all four of the NEH grants for the American Musicological Society. Our executive director writes: “As the chief operating officer for the American Musicological Society, a 91-year-old knowledge society committed to the study of music, history, and culture, I am resolved.” 1/2

Friday night entanglement challenge: explain a key concept in Karen Barad's agential realism in 2 posts or less, as precisely as possible but in lay language *without* using any of Barad's own terms (intra-action, diffraction, agential cuts, etc.).