People

Meet the staff, composers, researchers, collaborators, resident artists and engineers who make up NOVARS.

Research staff

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  Prof David Berezan, Canada

  Mantis Festival Director and Electroacoustic Studio Director
  Research Excellence Framework Coordinator
  Areas of Research Supervision: Acousmatic Music, Space focus

  Research profile

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  Prof Ricardo Climent, Spain

  Professor of Interactive Music Composition
  Director of NOVARS
  Director of Composition
  Areas of Research Supervision: Interactive and Dynamic Media Composition; Machine musicianship; Game-Audio, Locativeaudio

  Research profile

Teaching and learning staff

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  Dr Rosalía Soria Luz, México

  Lecturer in Composition for Interactive Media and Film
  Electroacoustic music composition including live interactive media and fixed media for the moving image, using of algorithms and mathematical models.

Research fellows

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  Dr Hongshuo Fan, China (Honorary Research Fellow)

  Areas of Research: Human-machine musicianship using artificial intelligence technology including an evolving real-time interactive performance system capable of machine-to-machine musical interactivity.

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  Dr Daniel Barreiro, Brazil (Postdoctoral Research Fellow)

  Areas of Research: Multi-channel live-acousmatic music Composition and performance strategies with gestural interfaces.

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NOVARS composers and in-house support

NOVARS composers' research panel board

Technical support



View past and present postgraduate researchers alongside their PhD themes.



Meet our collaborators, resident artists, engineers and ensembles.