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Andrew McPherson
@apmcpherson.bsky.social
Professor in Design Engineering and Music, Imperial College London. Researcher, composer, violist, engineer, instrument designer.

Leader of the Augmented Instruments Laboratory instrumentslab.org.
Co-founder and director of Bela.io.
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!).
September 5, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Xiaowan Yi and Jordie Shier present “Diffy” on the last night of NIME 2025.
June 27, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Nicole Robson presenting at NIME 2025 on sonic entanglements in the composition of an ultrasonic art installation (paper: nime.org/proceedings/...)
June 26, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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!”
June 26, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Otherworldly sounds from an electromagnetically bowed autoharp by Adam Schmidt, ahead of a poster/demo session on the Sparksichord (paper: nime.org/proceedings/...)
June 26, 2025 at 12:44 AM
June 25, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Jordie Shier presents “Designing Percussive Timbre Remappings” at NIME 2025 (paper: nime.org/proceedings/...)
June 25, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Lewis Wolstanholme presenting at NIME 2025 on drum modal feedback (read our paper with Jordie Shier and Rodrigo Constanzo: nime.org/proceedings/...)
June 25, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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/
June 4, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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!
June 3, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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...
May 14, 2025 at 10:11 PM
From belonging.upenn.edu/diversity-at.... "Belonging at Penn: 403 - Forbidden" 🤨
February 22, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Join us online this Friday (11am UK) for an Augmented Instruments Lab seminar by Rodrigo Constanzo: "Hitting laptops with drumsticks: approaches to performing with drums and electronics". Live stream link to follow at www.youtube.com/c/AugmentedI...
January 21, 2025 at 3:48 PM