Research

Innovation in sound, space and interactive art.

Sam Salem operating the Buchla modular Synth at the EMS studios in Stockholm
Sam Salem operating the Buchla modular Synth at the EMS studios in Stockholm as part of a NOVARS weekend concert organised by Lamour Records at Fylkingen. Photo by CitizenUrge.

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

  • Live acousmatic composition with sound spatialisation and diffusion | MANTIS Festival
  • MachineLearning for Music | UnSuperVISed
  • Machine musicianship and interactivity (instruments and live electronics) | MANTIS Festival
  • Electroacoustic music and sports science collaborative research | SoundRunner project
  • Analogue electronics and modular synthesis | Sines and Squares Festival
  • Locativeaudio | Locativeaudio project and entrepreneurial spin-out companies SonicMaps and Echoes
  • Game-audio/procedural audio | game-audio research and procedural-generative audio in graphics-physics-engines
  • Audification and sonification: audible data research on music composition| Audification website
  • Social Ventures in video-gaming and digital philanthropy | Keep•It•Human
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Projects

From Game Audio to Sonic Maps, view our project highlights.
Male student setting up lights in studio three

Themes and activities

Each academic year the NOVARS research centre produces a series of research group activities.
MANTIS-10 year official photo with distinguished composers, such as Francis Dhomont and Trevor Wishart and composer and publisher Jean-François Denis from empreintes DIGITALes

Postgraduate community

View past and present postgraduate researchers alongside their PhD themes, MusM graduates, and alumni from around the world.