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DMRN+21

Digital Music Research Network One-day Workshop 2026

Friday 11th December 2026

🕚 10:00–19:00 hrs
📍 King’s College London (in person only)

Strand building, Strand campus. 

 

News

 

Keynote speakers: 

  • Rebecca Fiebrink, Professor of Creative Computing at the UAL Creative Computing Institute.
  • Zubin Kanga, Pianist, composer, technologist, and Associate Professor in Musical Performance and Digital Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London.
  • Lizzie Wilson, Interdisciplinary artist and researcher at the UAL Creative Computing Institute.

 

Introduction

Welcome! DMRN+21.

This event is hosted at KCL in collaboration with C4DM.

 

Call for Contributions

You are invited to submit a proposal for a “Lightning presentation”, "poster" and/or "DIY demo" to be presented at this event.

Please chose one or more of the options. If possible, be flexible and select more than one.

  1. “Lightning presentation”. Talk and/or other musical demo. Exact duration is TBC, depending on the number of submissions accepted.
  2. “Poster”. limited spaces available.
  3. “DIY demo” (e.g., own laptop / hardware).

TALKS may range from the latest research, through research overviews or surveys, to opinion pieces or position statements, particularly those likely to be of interest to an interdisciplinary audience. Short announcements about other items of interest (e.g. future events or other networks) are also welcome.

POSTERS can be on any research topic of interest to the members of the network.

The abstracts of presentations will be collated into a proceedings and publish. Also they will be available at the website on the day.  

 

* Submission

Open on 6th October

Please prepare your proposal in the form of an abstract (1 page A4), Submit it via email to dmrn@lists.eecs.qmul.ac.uk giving the following information about your presentation:

  • Authors
  • Title
  • Preference for presentation, poster and/or DIY demo (or "no preference")

 

* Deadlines

  • 06 Nov 2026: Abstract submission deadline 
  • 18 Nov 2026: Notification of acceptance 
  • 11 Dec 2026: DMRN+20 Workshop

We expect that at least one author is prepared to attend this event in person. 

 

Registration

We are highly conscious of the cost of living right now, especially for students, and especially in the centre of London.

Partly for this reason, registration will be free. Capacity is limited so please only book if you’re coming. In case of issues, priority will be given to speakers (obviously!).

Free registration should save attendees not only money but also administrative hassle (of navigating yet another one-time login to a payment portal to pay and/or the none-too-trivial business of attempting to get it reimbursed). Refreshment options are available (as below) including some that are good for those on the tightest of budgets.

 

On the day practicalities (Amenities and "DMRN on a budget")

Food

There are many places to eat at KCL and the surrounding area. As mentioned above, we are highly conscious of the cost of living right now, especially for students, and especially in the centre of London. In outlining some of the culinary options, we included notes on various ways to save money.

The main food outlets of KCL’s Strand campus are listed here: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/study/student-experience/food/strand-campus

Of these, some main options:

In Bush House:

In the Strand building and connected areas:

 

All attendees can use any of these, paying with regular bank card (there's no secret KCL card or handshake required).

At lunch time we’ll take a quick poll and the KCL regulars will lead small teams to some or all of these outlets. You can also simply hang around at the venue and continue chatting over the posters (in which case, clearly BYO lunch).

Beyond KCL, there are lots of options from grabbing a sandwich as the nearby shops (e.g., there’s a Tesco right there) to the many restaurants on the Strand, and in Covent Garden (a short walk away).

Lanyards

We will not be making lanyards for the occasion. We take the view that single-use lanyards are simply awful. You get this piece of plastic, can’t return it, can’t re-use, and can’t recycle it. Why not bring a lanyard from your own institution, or from a recent conference. Call it a conversation starter! KCL members will be wearing their lanyards (red or multi-colour strap), so we should be easy to identify.

 

Organising Team (KCL and C4DM) and Contact Info.

At KCL (first_name.last_name@kcl.ac.uk):

At C4DM (first_initial.last_name@qmul.ac.uk):

  • Lead: Alvaro Bort
  • Advisory team: Simon Dixon.

"Thanks to “KCL including the Digital Futures Institute (DFI) and ​King's Institute for Artificial Intelligence and QMUL including AIM CDT UKRI funding".

 

 

Venue:

King's College London -Strand Campus, Strand, London, WC2R 2LS

Strand building (Strand road, WC2R 2LS)

 

Timetable and programme: 

 ("Provisional Schedule”)

 

10:00 Registration, Coffee, and Welcome
10:30 Keynote 1
  Rebecca Fiebrink, Professor of Creative Computing at the UAL Creative Computing Institute.
11:30 Lightning Presentations
12:00 Posters and Demos 
13:00 Lunch break
14:00 Keynote 2
  Zubin Kanga, Pianist, composer, technologist, and Associate Professor in Musical Performance and Digital Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London.
15:00 Lightning Presentations 
15:30 Break
16:00 Keynote 3
  Lizzie Wilson, Interdisciplinary artist and researcher at the UAL Creative Computing Institute.
16:30 Lightning Presentations 
17:00 Break
18:00 "Digital Futures of Music": a DMRN x DFI panel
 

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