Prof Andrew Mcpherson
Professor of Musical Interaction
School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science
Queen Mary University of London
Queen Mary University of London
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.
Publications
Publications of specific relevance to the Centre for Multimodal AI2024
Reed CN, Pearce M and McPherson A (2024). Auditory imagery ability influences accuracy when singing with altered auditory feedback. Musicae Scientiae, SAGE Publications 15-02-2024
Hayes B, Shier J, Fazekas G, McPherson A and Saitis C (2024). A review of differentiable digital signal processing for music and speech synthesis. Frontiers in Signal Processing, Frontiers vol. 3 11-01-2024
2023
Martelloni A, Mcpherson AP and Barthet M (2023). Real-time Percussive Technique Recognition and Embedding Learning for the Acoustic Guitar. 24th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference Milan, Italy 5 Nov 2023 - 9 Nov 2023. 05-11-2023
Wolstanholme L and Mcpherson A (2023). Towards Orchestrating Physically Modelled 2D Percussion Instruments. 10th Convention of the European Acoustics Association (Forum Acusticum) Turin, Italy 11 Sep 2023 - 15 Sep 2023. 11-09-2023
Shier J, Caspe F, Robertson A, Sandler M, Mcpherson A and Saitis C (2023). Differentiable Modelling of Percussive Audio with Transient and Spectral Synthesis. 10th Convention of the European Acoustics Association (Forum Acusticum) 11 Sep 2023 - 15 Sep 2023. 11-09-2023
Wolstanholme L, Vahidi C and Mcpherson A (2023). Hearing from Within a Sound: A Series of Techniques for Deconstructing and Spatialising Timbre. International Conference on Spatial and Immersive Audio (AES) University of Huddersfield 23 Aug 2023 - 25 Aug 2023. 23-08-2023
Caspe F, Mcpherson A and Sandler M (2023). FM Tone Transfer with Envelope Learning. AudioMostly 2023 Edinburgh 30 Aug 2023 - 1 Sep 2023. 10-08-2023
Nordmoen C and McPherson AP (2023). What the Sensor Knows: More-Than-Human Knowledge Co-Production in Wood Carving. Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference. 10-07-2023
Zheng J, Mcpherson A and Bryan-Kinns N (2023). When Materials Meet Sound: Discovering the Meaning of Deformable Materials in Musical Interaction. Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference. 10-07-2023
Zayas-Garin E, Nordmoen C and Mcpherson A (2023). Transmitting Digital Lutherie Knowledge: The Rashomon Effect for DMI Designers. New Interfaces for Musical Expression 2023 Mexico City 31 May 2023 - 3 Jun 2023. 31-05-2023
Pelinski Ramos T, Diaz Fernandez R, Benito Temprano AL and Mcpherson A (2023). Pipeline for recording datasets and running neural networks on the Bela embedded hardware platform. NIME 2023 Mexico City, Mexico 31 May 2023 - 2 Jun 2023. 31-05-2023
Clayton M, Wang L, Mcpherson A and Cavallaro A (2023). An embedded multichannel sound acquisition system for drone audition. IEEE Sensors Journal, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 10-05-2023
Mice L and McPherson AP (2023). Chaos Bells: Instrument Size and Entangled Music Performance. Contemporary Music Review, Taylor & Francis vol. 42 (3), 363-375. 04-05-2023
Pelinski Ramos T, Caspe F, Mcpherson A and Sandler M (2023). Computing ecosystems: neural networks and embedded hardware platforms. CHI 2023 Hamburg, Germany 23 May 2023 - 28 May 2023. 22-04-2023
Reed CN, Strohmeier P and McPherson AP (2023). Negotiating Experience and Communicating Information Through Abstract Metaphor. Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 19-04-2023
Reed CN and McPherson AP (2023). The Body as Sound: Unpacking Vocal Embodiment through Auditory Biofeedback. Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction. 26-02-2023
2022
Caspe F, Mcpherson A and Sandler M (2022). DDX7: Differentiable FM Synthesis of Musical Instrument Sounds. 23rd International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2022) Bengaluru, India 4 Dec 2022 - 8 Dec 2022. 04-12-2022
Pigrem J, Mcpherson A, Bryan-Kinns N and Jack R (2022). Sound -> Object -> Gesture: Physical Affordances of Virtual Materials. AudioMostly 2022. 06-09-2022
Lepri G, Mcpherson A and Bowers J (2022). Useless, not Worthless: Absurd Making as Critical Practice. ACM conference on Designing Interactive Systems. 01-07-2022
Robson N, McPherson A and Bryan-Kinns N (2022). Being With The Waves: An Ultrasonic Art Installation Enabling Rich Interaction Without Sensors. NIME 2022. 28-06-2022
Mice L and Mcpherson A (2022). The M in NIME: Motivic analysis and the case for a musicology of NIME performances. International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression Auckland, New Zealand 28 Jun 2022 - 1 Jul 2022. 28-06-2022
Lepri G, Bowers J, Topley S, Stapleton P, Bennett P, Andersen K and McPherson A (2022). The 10,000 Instruments Workshop - (Im)practical Research for Critical Speculation. NIME 2022. 28-06-2022
Guidi A and McPherson A (2022). Quantitative evaluation of aspects of embodiment in new digital musical instruments. NIME 2022. 28-06-2022
Zayas-Garin E and McPherson A (2022). Dialogic Design of Accessible Digital Musical Instruments: Investigating Performer Experience. NIME 2022. 28-06-2022
Reed CN, Nordmoen C, Martelloni A, Lepri G, Robson N, Zayas-Garin E, Cotton K, Mice L and McPherson A (2022). Exploring Experiences with New Musical Instruments through Microphenomenology. International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. 16-06-2022
Zheng J, Bryan-Kinns N and McPherson AP (2022). Material Matters: Exploring Materiality in Digital Musical Instruments Design. Designing Interactive Systems Conference. 13-06-2022
Nordmoen C and McPherson AP (2022). Making space for material entanglements: A diffractive analysis of woodwork and the practice of making an interactive system. Designing Interactive Systems Conference. 13-06-2022
Mice L and McPherson AP (2022). Super Size Me: Interface Size, Identity and Embodiment in Digital Musical Instrument Design. CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 29-04-2022
Reed CN, Skach S, Strohmeier P and McPherson AP (2022). Singing Knit: Soft Knit Biosensing for Augmenting Vocal Performances. Augmented Humans 2022. 13-03-2022
Robson N, Bryan-Kinns N and Mcpherson A (2022). On mediating space, sound and experience: interviews with situated sound art practitioners. Organised Sound: an international journal of music and technology, Cambridge University Press (CUP) vol. 28 (1) 09-02-2022
2021
Benito Temprano A and Mcpherson AP (2021). A TMR Angle Sensor for Gesture Acquisition and Disambiguation on the Electric Guitar. Audio Mostly 2021 (AM'21). Sonic experiences in the era of the Internet of Sounds University of Trento (Italy) [Online] 1 Sep 2021 - 3 Sep 2021. 01-09-2021
Lepri G and McPherson A (2021). Embrace the Weirdness: Negotiating Values Inscribed into Music Technology. Computer Music Journal, MIT Press vol. 45 (3), 39-57. 01-09-2021
Zayas-Garin L, Harrison J, Jack R and McPherson A (2021). DMI Apprenticeship: Sharing and Replicating Musical Artefacts. NIME 2021. 01-07-2021
Martelloni A, McPherson A and Barthet M (2021). Guitar augmentation for Percussive Fingerstyle: Combining self-reflexive practice and user-centred design. NIME 2021. 01-06-2021
Mice L and Mcpherson A (2021). Embodied Cognition in Performers of Large Acoustic Instruments as a Method of Designing New Large Digital Musical Instruments. Perception, Representations, Image, Sound, Music 14th International Symposium, CMMR 2019, Marseille, France, October 14–18, 2019, Revised Selected Papers , Editors: Kronland-Martinet R, Ystad S and Aramaki M. 577-590. 10-03-2021
Reed CN and McPherson AP (2021). Surface Electromyography for Sensing Performance Intention and Musical Imagery in Vocalists. Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction. 14-02-2021
2020
Moro G and McPherson AP (2020). Performer Experience on a Continuous Keyboard Instrument. Computer Music Journal, MIT Press vol. 44 (2-3), 69-91. 27-07-2020
Mice L and Mcpherson A (2020). From miming to NIMEing: the development of idiomatic gestural language on large scale DMIs., Editors: Michon R and Schroeder F. International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression Birmingham UK 21 Jul 2020 - 25 Jul 2020. 21-07-2020
Moro G and Mcpherson A (2020). A platform for low-latency continuous keyboard sensing and sound generation. International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression Royal Birmingham Conservatoire 21 Jul 2020 - 25 Jul 2020. 20-07-2020
Martelloni A, Mcpherson A and Barthet M (2020). Percussive Fingerstyle Guitar through the Lens of NIME: an Interview Study. New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) Royal Birmingham Conservatoire 22 Jul 2020 - 25 Jul 2020. 20-07-2020
Lepri G, Mcpherson A, Nonnis A, Stapleton P, Andersen K, Mudd T, Bowers J, Bennett P and Topley S (2020). Play Make Believe: Exploring Design Fiction and Absurd Making for Critical NIME. New Interfaces for Musical Expression Workshop (NIME '20), Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, Birmingham, UK.. 15-07-2020
Lepri G, McPherson A and Bowers J (2020). Useless, not Worthless. Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference. 03-07-2020
Mcpherson A and Lepri G (2020). Beholden to Our Tools: Negotiating with Technology while Sketching Digital Instruments. New Interfaces For Musical Expression. 03-06-2020
McPherson A and Tahıroğlu K (2020). Idiomatic Patterns and Aesthetic Influence in Computer Music Languages. Organised Sound, Cambridge University Press (CUP) vol. 25 (1), 53-63. 04-03-2020
Guidi A, Morreale F and McPherson A (2020). Design for auditory imagery: Altering instruments to explore performer fluency. 01-01-2020
Morreale F, Bin SMA, McPherson AP, Stapleton P and Wanderley MM (2020). A nime of the times: Developing an outward-looking political agenda for this community. 01-01-2020
Avila JM, Tsaknaki V, Karpashevich P, Windlin C, Valenti N, Höök K, McPherson A and Benford S (2020). Soma design for nime. 01-01-2020
Jack RH, Harrison J and McPherson AP (2020). Digital musical instruments as research products. 01-01-2020
2019
Mice L and Mcpherson AP (2019). Embodied Cognition in Performers of Large Acoustic Instruments as a Method of Designing New Large Digital Musical Instruments., Editors: Mice L and Mcpherson AP. Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research Marseille, France 14 Oct 2019 - 18 Oct 2019. 14-10-2019
Armitage J and McPherson A (2019). Bricolage in a hybrid digital lutherie context. Proceedings of the 14th International Audio Mostly Conference: A Journey in Sound. 18-09-2019
Armitage J and Mcpherson A (2019). Bricolage in a hybrid digital lutherie context: a workshop study. Audio Mostly University of Nottingham 17 Sep 2019 - 20 Sep 2019. 17-09-2019
McPherson A (2019). Augmenting Musical Performance. The Cambridge Companion to Music in Digital Culture 193-196. 30-08-2019
Nordmoen C, Armitage J, Morreale F, Stewart R and McPherson A (2019). Making Sense of Sensors. Proceedings of the 2019 on Designing Interactive Systems Conference. 18-06-2019
LEPRI G and MCPHERSON A (2019). Fictional Instruments, Real Values: Discovering Musical Backgrounds with Non-Functional Prototypes. New Interfaces for Musical Expression. 03-06-2019
LEPRI G and MCPHERSON A (2019). Making Up Instruments: Design Fiction for Value Discovery in Communities of Musical Practice. Designing Interactive Systems San Diego California USA. 01-06-2019
Hazzard A, Greenhalgh C, Kallionpaa M, Benford S, Veinberg A, Kanga Z and McPherson A (2019). Failing with Style. Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 02-05-2019
Harrison J, Chamberlain A and McPherson AP (2019). Accessible Instruments in the Wild. Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 02-05-2019
Pardue LS and McPherson A (2019). Real-Time Aural and Visual Feedback for Improving Violin Intonation. Front Psychol vol. 10, 627-627. 02-04-2019
MCPHERSON A, MORREALE F and HARRISON J (2019). Musical Instruments for Novices: Comparing NIME, HCI and Crowdfunding Approaches. New Directions in Music and Human-Computer Interaction , Editors: Holland S, Wilkie-McKenna K, Mudd T, MCPHERSON A and Wanderley M. 01-01-2019
Morreale F, Guidi A and McPherson A (2019). Magpick: An augmented guitar pick for nuanced control. 01-01-2019
Pardue LS, Buys K, Edinger M, Overholt D and McPherson AP (2019). Separating sound from source: sonic transformation of the violin through electrodynamic pickups and acoustic actuation. 01-01-2019
McPherson A and Verplank B (2019). The Poetry of Strange Connections: An Interview with Bill Verplank. New Directions in Music and Human-Computer Interaction 61-70. 01-01-2019
McPherson A and Benford S (2019). Music, Design and Ethnography: An Interview with Steve Benford. New Directions in Music and Human-Computer Interaction 213-220. 01-01-2019
Holland S, Mudd T, Wilkie-McKenna K, McPherson A and Wanderley MM (2019). Understanding Music Interaction, and Why It Matters. New Directions in Music and Human-Computer Interaction 1-20. 01-01-2019
Turchet L, McPherson A and Fischione C (2019). Smart instruments: Towards an ecosystem of interoperable devices connecting performers and audiences. 01-01-2019
2018
MORREALE F, ARMITAGE J and MCPHERSON A (2018). Effect of Instrument Structure Alterations on Violin Performance. Frontiers in Psychology, Frontiers Media 06-12-2018
ZAPPI V and MCPHERSON A (2018). Hackable Instruments: Supporting Appropriation and Modification in Digital Musical Interaction. Frontiers in ICT vol. 5 (26) 04-10-2018
JACK RH, MEHRABI A, Stockman T and MCPHERSON A (2018). Action-sound Latency and the Perceived Quality of Digital Musical Instruments: Comparing Professional Percussionists and Amateur Musicians., Editors: Stevens K and Hutchings K. Music Perception, University of California Press 21-08-2018
Turchet L, McPherson A and Barthet M (2018). Real-Time Hit Classification in a Smart Cajón. Frontiers in ICT, Frontiers vol. 5 10-07-2018
BUYS K and MCPHERSON A (2018). Real-time bowed string feature extraction for performance applications. Sound and Music Computing Cyprus 4 Mar 2018 - 7 Mar 2018. 04-07-2018
ARMITAGE JDK and MCPHERSON A (2018). Crafting Digital Musical Instruments: An Exploratory Workshop Study. New Interfaces for Musical Expression. 03-06-2018
BIN SMA, BRYAN-KINNS N and MCPHERSON AP (2018). Risky business: Disfluency as a design strategy. New Interfaces for Musical Expression Blacksburg, VA, USA 3 Jun 2018 - 7 Jun 2018. 02-06-2018
Turchet L, McPherson A and Barthet M (2018). Co-design of a smart Cajón. AES: Journal of the Audio Engineering Society vol. 66 (4), 220-230. 01-04-2018
Morreale F, McPherson AP and Wanderley MM (2018). NIME identity from the performer’s perspective. 01-01-2018
Lepri G and McPherson A (2018). Mirroring the past, from typewriting to interactive art: An approach to the re-design of a vintage technology. 01-01-2018
Pardue LS, McPherson A and Overholt D (2018). Improving the instrumental learning experience through complexity management. 01-01-2018
Pigrem J and McPherson A (2018). Do we speak sensor? Cultural constraints of embodied interaction. 01-01-2018
Harrison J, Jack RH, Morreale F and McPherson A (2018). When is a guitar not a guitar? Cultural form, input modality and expertise. 01-01-2018
Jack RH, Harrison J, Morreale F and McPherson A (2018). Democratising DMIs: The relationship of expertise and control intimacy. 01-01-2018
2017
MORO G, MCPHERSON A and SANDLER M (2017). Dynamic temporal behaviour of the keyboard action on the Hammond organ and its perceptual significance. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Acoustical Society of America 10-11-2017
Bin SMA, Bryan-Kinns N and McPherson A (2017). Hands where we can see them! Investigating the impact of gesture size on audience perception. International Computer Music Conference Shanghai, China 16 Oct 2017 - 20 Oct 2017. 16-10-2017
BIN SMA, MORREALE F, BRYAN-KINNS N and MCPHERSON A (2017). In-the-moment and beyond: Combining post-hoc and real time data for the study of audience perception of electronic music performance. ACM Interact 2017 Mumbai, India 25 Sep 2017 - 29 Sep 2017. 25-09-2017
HARRISON JTF and McPherson AP (2017). Adapting the Bass Guitar for One-Handed Playing. Journal of New Music Research, Taylor & Francis (Routledge) vol. 46 (3), 270-285. 28-06-2017
Jack RH, Stockman T and McPherson A (2017). Rich gesture, reduced control. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Movement Computing. 28-06-2017
MCPHERSON A, ARMITAGE JDK, BIN SMA, MORREALE F and JACK R (2017). NIMEcraft Workshop: Exploring the Subtleties of Digital Lutherie. New Interfaces for Musical Expression. 01-06-2017
Armitage J, Morreale F and McPherson A (2017). The finer the musician, the smaller the details: NIMEcraft under the microscope. New Instruments for Musical Expression 2017 Copenhagen, Denmark 14 May 2017 - 19 May 2017. 14-05-2017
Morreale F, Moro G, Chamberlain A, Benford S and MCPHERSON A (2017). Building a Maker Community Around an Open Hardware Platform. ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) Denver, CO, USA 6 May 2017 - 11 May 2017. 06-05-2017
MORREALE F, Masu R and MCPHERSON (2017). Constraining Control in Mixed-Initiative Musical Interfaces. MICI 2017: CHI Workshop on Mixed-Initiative Creative Interfaces. 06-05-2017
McPherson A (2017). Bela: An embedded platform for low-latency feedback control of sound. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Acoustical Society of America (ASA) vol. 141 (5), 3618-3618. 01-05-2017
Donovan L and McPherson A (2017). Traveling wave control of stringed musical instruments. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Acoustical Society of America (ASA) vol. 141 (5), 3619-3619. 01-05-2017
Jack RH, Stockman T and McPherson A (2017). Maintaining and Constraining Performer Touch in the Design of Digital Musical Instruments. Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction. 20-03-2017
Morreale F and McPherson AP (2017). Design for longevity: Ongoing use of instruments from nime 2010-14. 01-01-2017
Liang B, Fazekas G, McPherson A and Sandler M (2017). Piano Pedaller: A Measurement System for Classification and Visualisation of Piano Pedalling Techniques. 01-01-2017
McPherson A (2017). 2012: TouchKeys: Capacitive Multi-touch Sensing on a Physical Keyboard. A NIME Reader 419-432. 01-01-2017
2016
LIANG B, fazekas G, mcpherson A and sandler M (2016). Classification of Piano Pedaling Techniques Using Gesture Data from a Non-Intrusive Measurement System. DMRN+11: Digital Music Research Network One-day Workshop 2016 Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary University of London 20 Dec 2016. 20-12-2016
Jack RH, Stockman T and McPherson A (2016). Effect of latency on performer interaction and subjective quality assessment of a digital musical instrument. Proceedings of the Audio Mostly 2016. 04-10-2016
McPherson AP, Jack RH and Moro G (2016). Action-Sound Latency: Are Our Tools Fast Enough? Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, July 11-15, 2016 Griffith University, South Bank, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 11 Jul 2016 - 15 Jul 2016. 11-07-2016
BIN SMA, MCPHERSON AP and BRYAN-KINNS N (2016). Skip the Pre-Concert Demo: How Technical Familiarity and Musical Style Affect Audience Response. New Interfaces for Musical Expression Brisbane, Australia 11 Jul 2016 - 15 Jul 2016. 11-07-2016
MORO G, Bin A, Jack RH, Heinrichs C and McPherson AP (2016). Making High-Performance Embedded Instruments with Bela and Pure Data. International Conference on Live Interfaces University of Sussex 29 Jun 2016 - 3 Jul 2016. 29-06-2016
MCPHERSON A, Chamberlain A, Hazzard A, McGrath S and Benford S (2016). Designing for Exploratory Play with a Hackable Digital Musical Instrument. ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems Brisbane, Australia. 04-06-2016
Sulyok C, MCPHERSON A and Harte C (2016). Evolving the process of a virtual composer. Natural Computing, Springer 03-06-2016
Holland S, McPherson AP, Mackay WE, Wanderley MM, Gurevich MD, Mudd TW, O'Modhrain S, Wilkie KL, Malloch JW, Garcia J and Johnston A (2016). Music and HCI. Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 07-05-2016
Heinrichs C and McPherson A (2016). Performance-Led Design of Computationally Generated Audio for Interactive Applications. Proceedings of the TEI '16: Tenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction. 14-02-2016
Jack R, Stockman T and McPherson A (2016). Navigation of Pitch Space on a Digital Musical Instrument with Dynamic Tactile Feedback. Proceedings of the TEI '16: Tenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction. 14-02-2016
2015
Pardue LS, Harte C and MCPHERSON A (2015). A Low-Cost Real-Time Tracking System for Violin. Journal of New Music Research, Taylor & Francis (Routledge): SSH Titles, 1-19. 08-10-2015
Sulyok C, McPherson A and Harte C (2015). Corpus-taught Evolutionary Music Composition. 07/20/2015-07/24/2015. 20-07-2015
MacRitchie J and MCPHERSON A (2015). Integrating optical finger motion tracking with surface touch events. Frontiers in Psychology, Frontiers vol. 6 (702) 02-06-2015
McPherson A (2015). Buttons, Handles, and Keys: Advances in Continuous-Control Keyboard Instruments. Computer Music Journal, MIT Press vol. 39 (2), 28-46. 01-06-2015
Jack RH, MCPHERSON A and Stockman T (2015). The design of tactile musical devices for the deaf. International Conference on the Multimodal Experience of Music Sheffield, UK. 01-01-2015
Zappi V and MCPHERSON A (2015). Exposing the scaffolding of digital instruments with hardware-software feedback loops. New Interfaces for Musical Expression Baton Rouge, USA. 01-01-2015
Menzies DWH and MCPHERSON A (2015). Highland piping ornament recognition using Dynamic Time Warping. New Interfaces for Musical Expression Baton Rouge, USA. 01-01-2015
Donovan L and MCPHERSON A (2015). Active control of a string instrument bridge using the Posicast technique. 138th Audio Engineering Society Convention Warsaw, Poland. 01-01-2015
MCPHERSON A and Zappi V (2015). An environment for submillisecond-latency audio and sensor processing on BeagleBone Black. 138th Audio Engineering Society Convention Warsaw, Poland. 01-01-2015
Moro G and McPherson AP (2015). Approximating non-linear inductors using time-variant linear filters. 01-01-2015
2014
Heinrichs C, MCPHERSON A and Farnell A (2014). Human Performance of Computational Sound Models for Immersive Environments. The New Soundtrack vol. 4 (2), 139-155. 01-01-2014
Heinrichs C and MCPHERSON A (2014). Mapping and interaction strategies for performing environmental sound. IEEE VR Workshop on Sonic Interaction in Virtual Environments (SIVE). 01-01-2014
Zappi V and MCPHERSON A (2014). Design and use of a hackable digital instrument. International Conference on Live Interfaces Lisbon, Portugal. 01-01-2014
Topliss JW, Zappi V and MCPHERSON A (2014). Latency Performance for Real-Time Audio on BeagleBone Black. Linux Audio Conference Karlsruhe, Germany. 01-01-2014
Zappi V and MCPHERSON A (2014). Dimensionality and appropriation in digital musical instrument design. New Interfaces for Musical Expression London, UK. 01-01-2014
Pardue L, Nian D, Harte C and MCPHERSON A (2014). Low-latency audio pitch tracking: a multi-modal sensor-assisted approach. New Interfaces for Musical Expression. 01-01-2014
Sokolovskis J and MCPHERSON A (2014). Optical measurement of acoustic drum strike locations. New Interfaces for Musical Expression London, UK. 01-01-2014
MCPHERSON A and Donovan L (2014). The talking guitar: headstock tracking and mapping strategies. New Interfaces for Musical Expression London, UK. 01-01-2014
Gábana Arellano D and MCPHERSON A (2014). Radear: a tangible spinning music sequencer. New Interfaces for Musical Expression London, UK. 01-01-2014
2013
Vetter L, Terrell MJ, Simpson AJR and McPherson A (2013). Estimation of overdrive in music signals. 09-09-2013
McPherson AP and Kim YE (2013). Piano Technique as a Case Study in Expressive Gestural Interaction. Music and Human-Computer Interaction 123-138. 01-01-2013
MENZIES DWH and MCPHERSON A (2013). A Digital Bagpipe Chanter System to Assist in One-to-One Piping Tuition. Proceedings of the Stockholm Music Acoustics Conference Stockholm. 01-01-2013
HEDGES TW and MCPHERSON A (2013). 3D Gestural Interaction with Harmonic Pitch Space. Proceedings of the 10th Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC) Stockholm. 01-01-2013
MCPHERSON A (2013). Portable measurement and mapping of continuous piano gesture. New Interfaces for Musical Expression Seoul, South Korea. 01-01-2013
MCPHERSON A and Pardue L (2013). Near-field optical reflectance sensing for violin bow tracking. New Interfaces for Musical Expression Seoul, South Korea. 01-01-2013
MCPHERSON A, Gierakowski A and Stark A (2013). The space between the notes: adding expressive pitch control to the piano keyboard. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) Paris, France. 01-01-2013
2012
Burdiel E, Vetter L, Simpson AJR, Terrell MJ, Mcpherson A and Sandler M (2012). Real-time implementation of glasberg & moore's loudness model for time-varying sounds. 01-12-2012
Heinrichs C and McPherson A (2012). Recreating the parallax effect associated with Fishtank VR in a Real-Time telepresence system using head-tracking and a robotic camera. 01-12-2012
MCPHERSON A and Kim YE (2012). The problem of the second performer: building a community around an augmented piano. Computer Music Journal, MIT Press vol. 36 (4), 10-27. 01-01-2012
Britt NC, Snyder J and McPherson A (2012). The emvibe: An electromagnetically actuated vibraphone. 01-01-2012
Menzies DWH and McPherson A (2012). An electronic bagpipe chanter for automatic recognition of highland piping ornamentation. 01-01-2012
Snyder J and McPherson A (2012). The jd-1: An implementation of a hybrid keyboard/sequencer controller for analog synthesizers. 01-01-2012
Heinrichs C and McPherson A (2012). A hybrid keyboard-guitar interface using capacitive touch sensing and physical modeling. 01-01-2012
2011
MCPHERSON A and Kim Y (2011). Multidimensional gesture sensing at the piano keyboard. ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Vancouver, Canada 7 May 2011 - 12 May 2011. 01-01-2011
MCPHERSON A and Kim Y (2011). Design and applications of a multi-touch musical keyboard. 8th Sound and Music Computing Conference Padova, Italy 6 Jul 2011 - 9 Jul 2011. 01-01-2011
Dolhansky B, MCPHERSON A and Kim Y (2011). Designing an expressive virtual percussion instrument. 8th Sound and Music Computing Conference Padova, Italy 6 Jul 2011 - 9 Jul 2011. 01-01-2011
2010
MCPHERSON A (2010). The magnetic resonator piano: electronic augmentation of an acoustic grand piano. Journal of New Music Research vol. 39 (3), 189-202. 01-01-2010
MCPHERSON A and Kim Y (2010). Augmenting the acoustic piano with electromagnetic string actuation and continuous key position sensing. International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression Sydney, Australia 15 Jun 2010 - 18 Jun 2010. 01-01-2010
MCPHERSON A and Kim Y (2010). Toward a computationally-enhanced acoustic grand piano. ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Extended Abstracts) Atlanta, USA 10 Apr 2010 - 15 Apr 2010. 01-01-2010
Grants
Grants of specific relevance to the Centre for Multimodal AIBela/RAEng Senior Research Fellowship in Embedded Music Computing: PhD studentship and consumablesAndrew McPherson
£68,000 Augmented Instruments Ltd (01-03-2021 - 28-02-2026)
UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Artificial Intelligence and MusicSimon Dixon, Emmanouil Benetos, Nicholas Bryan-Kinns, Mark Sandler, Andrew McPherson, Mathieu Barthet, Gyorgy Fazekas, Ekaterina Ivanova, Anna Xambo Sedo and Charalampos Saitis
£6,519,934 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (01-07-2019 - 31-08-2028)
Investigating mental models of DAW software use by visually-impaired musiciansAndrew McPherson
£97,000 ABLETON AG (15-04-2022 - 14-10-2023)