Research

Innovation in sound, space and interactive art.

What do we do? NOVARS' current areas of research embrace:

Live acousmatic composition with sound spatialisation and diffusion | MANTIS Festival
MachineLearning for Music | UnSuperVISed
Machine musicianship and interactivity (instruments and live electronics) | MANTIS Festival
Electroacoustic music and sports science collaborative research | SoundRunner project
Analogue electronics and modular synthesis | Sines and Squares Festival
Locativeaudio | Locativeaudio project and entrepreneurial spin-out companies SonicMaps and Echoes
Game-audio/procedural audio | game-audio research and procedural-generative audio in graphics-physics-engines
Audification and sonification: audible data research on music composition| Audification website
Social Ventures in video-gaming and digital philanthropy | Keep•It•Human

From Game Audio to Sonic Maps, view our project highlights.

Each academic year the NOVARS research centre produces a series of research group activities.

View past and present postgraduate researchers alongside their PhD themes, MusM graduates, and alumni from around the world.

Projects