Research

Innovation in sound, space and interactive art.

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

• Analogue Electronics and Modular Synthesis (see our Sines and Squares project)
• Live Acousmatic Composition with Sound Spatialisation and Diffusion (see the MANTIS Festival)
• Game-audio / Procedural Audio (see our game-audio project) and Procedural-generative audio in graphics-physics-engines
• Machine Musicianship and Interactivity (Instruments and Live Electronics) (see the MANTIS Festival)
• Locativeaudio - (See our Locativeaudio and SonicMaps projects)
• Audification and Sonification: audible data research on music composition (see the Audification website)

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.