Prof Andrew Mcpherson

Andrew Mcpherson

Professor of Musical Interaction

School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science
Queen Mary University of London
www.qmul.ac.uk/eecs/people/profiles/mcphersonandrew.html
Centre for Multimodal AI

Research

Augmented Instruments, Sound and Music Computing, New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Interests

I am an electrical engineer and a composer by training, and my research interests lie at the boundaries between music composition and performance, analog and digital hardware design, digital signal processing and human-computer interaction. I am particularly interested in creating new expressive tools for musicians, including electronically-augmented acoustic instruments, novel hardware/software interfaces for live performance, and intuitive mapping strategies between gesture and sound. I'm also interested in quantitative modelling of expressive performance, focusing especially on the link between expressive intent and physical gesture.

As a classically-trained musician, I believe that computing can have a place in even the most traditional arts venues, and I emphasise the importance of getting research products into the hands of musicians and artists, and indeed involving artists throughout the research process.