Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation

Lecamwasam, K. and Chaudhuri, T.R. (2025). Exploring listeners' perceptions of AI-generated and human-composed music for functional emotional applications. arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.02856

Lecamwasam, K., Bartleet, B. L., Ortiz, T., & Koebner, I. (2025). Promoting the well-being of infants and caregivers through music: insights from the lullaby project’s international convening. Arts & Health, 1-11.

Cherep, Manuel, and Nikhil Singh. "Contrastive Learning from Synthetic Audio Doppelgängers." International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)

Kimaya Lecamwasam. 2024. The Distance Between Us: Exploring the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit Through the Soundscape of Biometric Monitoring. In Proceedings of the 19th International Audio Mostly Conference: Explorations in Sonic Cultures (AM '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 533–542. https://doi.org/10.1145/3678299.3678355

Fleming, Renée, et al. "Music and Mind: Harnessing the Arts for Health and Wellness." Viking (Penguin Random House LLC). April 9, 2024. ISBN 9780593653197

Singh*, N., Cherep*, M., & Shand, J. (2023, December). Creative Text-to-Audio Generation via Synthesizer Programming. In NeurIPS Machine Learning for Audio Workshop

Cherep*, M., & Singh*, N. (2023, May). SynthAX: A Fast Modular Synthesizer in JAX. In Audio Engineering Society Convention 155. Audio Engineering Society.

Lecamwasam, K.H.M. (2023). Pharmamusicology: Exploring the Impact of Music on the Physiology and Psychology of Anxiety Disorders and Well-Being. Master's Thesis, MIT Media Lab.

Lecamwasam, K., Gutierrez Arango, S., Singh, N., Elhaouij, N., Addae, M., & Picard, R. (2023, April). Investigating the Physiological and Psychological Effect of an Interactive Musical Interface for Stress and Anxiety Reduction. In Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-9).

Singh, N., Bernal, G., Savchenko, D., & Glassman, E. L. (2022). Where to Hide a Stolen Elephant: Leaps in Creative Writing with Multimodal Machine Intelligence. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction.

Image2Reverb: Cross-Modal Reverb Impulse Response Synthesis. Nikhil Singh, Jeff Mentch, Jerry Ng, Matthew Beveridge, Iddo Drori; Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2021, pp. 286-295

Nikhil Singh. 2021. The Sound Sketchpad: Expressively Combining Large and Diverse Audio Collections. In 26th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI ’21), April 14–17, 2021, College Station, TX, USA.

Kleinberger, Rébecca, et al. "Interspecies Interactions Mediated by Technology: An Avian Case Study at the Zoo." ACM CHI 2020 Conference (April 2020).

Su, D. (2019). Massively Multiplayer Operas: Interactive Systems for Collaborative Musical Narrative. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Holbrow, C. (2019). Turning the DAW Inside Out. Audio Engineering Society Conference: 146th Convention.

Holbrow, C. (2019). Tempic Integrator: A modern tool for composing with sliding polytempos as conceived by Henry Cowell in 1930. In Audio Engineering Society Student Design Competition. Dublin, Ireland.

Su, D., Picard, R., Liu, Y. "AMAI: Adaptive Music for Affect Improvement." Proceedings of the 44th International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), Daegu, Korea, August 2018.

Proceedings of TEI, Stockholm, Sweden, 2018

van Troyer, A. "Score Instruments: A New Paradigm of Musical Instruments to Guide Musical Wonderers"

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L'Huillier, N. "Spaces That Perform Themselves"

Holbrow, C. "HYPERCOMPRESSION: Stochastic Musical Processing"

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Bloomberg, B. "Hyperproduction : an audio-centric framework for the abstract modeling of live performance to guide audience attention and perspective using connected real-time systems"

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Kleinberger, R. "Singing About Singing, Using the Voice as a Tool for Self-Reflection"

van Troyer, A. NIME’14, June 30 – July 03, 2014, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK

Holbrow, C., Jessop, E., Kleinberger R. NIME’14, June 30 – July 03, 2014, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK

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Torpey, P. A. "Media Scores: A Framework for Composing the Modern-Day Gesamtkunstwerk"

Van Troyer, A. "Hyperaudience Designing Performance Systems for Audience Inclusion"

Shahar, E. "SoundStrand: a Tangible Interface for Composing Music with Limited Degrees of Freedom"

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Jessop, E., Torpey, P., Bloomberg, B. NIME’11, 30 May–1 June 2011, Oslo, Norway

Boulanger, A. "Music, Mind and Health: How Community Change, Diagnosis, and Neuro-rehabilitation Can Be Achieved during Creative Tasks"

Dong, W. "Biologically Inspired Robots for Stage Performance"

Jessop, E. "A Gestural Media Framework: Tools for Expressive Gesture Recognition and Mapping in Rehearsal and Performance"

Cavatorta, A. "Nervebox: The First General Platform for Electromechanical Musical Instruments"

Young, D.

Torpey, P. "Disembodied Performance: Abstraction of Representation in Live Theater"

Jessop, E.

Feehan, N.

Machover, T.

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Lillie, A. "MusicBox: Navigating the Space of Your Music"

Grindlay, G. "The Impact of Haptic Guidance on Musical Motor Learning"

Knouf, N. "Encouraging the Expression of the Unspeakable: Influence and Agency in a Robotic Creature"

Pliam, S. "The Chandelier: Toward a Digitally Conceived Physical Performance Object"

Machover, T.

Fabio, M. "The Chandelier: An Exploration in Robotic Musical Instrument Design"

Young, D. "A Methodology for Investigation of Bowed String Performance through Measurement of Violin Bowing Technique"

Aimi, R. "Hybrid Percussion: Extending Physical Instruments Using Sampled Acoustics"

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Boulanger, A. "Autism, New Music Technologies and Cognition"

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