BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:talks.ox.ac.uk BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Seminar: Augmented Reality Music Ensemble (ARME)\, 'Lives of Ense mbles' - Dr Massimiliano Di Luca (University of Birmingham)\, Professor Al an Wing (University of Birmingham)\, Dr Diar Abdlkarim (University of Birm ingham)\, Evguenni Penksik (ARME project)\, Dr Kate Kennedy (broadcaster a nd historian (narrator))\, Nicholas Roberts DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20250507T140000 DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20250507T153000 UID:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/11cb81d4-bda9-44de-8817-e9a2a98dfe6a/ DESCRIPTION:Music production has always been a social and interactive expe rience\, but how can people practice music in a group when physically alon e?\n\n\nThe Augmented Reality Music Ensemble (ARME) is an EPSRC-funded pro ject that employs emerging immersive technologies to expand the ways music ians practice music in a music group. ARME integrates video capture\, comp utational modelling and augmented reality so that a musician can practice with avatars having the appearance and interactivity of real musicians. Or iginally designed for string quartets\, ARME is evolving to allow several kinds of real-time interactions.\n\n\nThis seminar will begin with a conve rsation between OCLW's Kate Kennedy and Nicholas Roberts\, cellist of the Coull Quartet\, about the life of the quartet. This will be followed by an introduction to the scientific principles and technological innovations b ehind ARME\, from the perceptual and cognitive challenges of synchronizing humans (in real and virtual spaces) to the software and hardware that mak e interaction in a virtual ensemble possible. In so doing\, the ARME team will showcase the latest developments and discuss potential impacts on mus ic pedagogy and beyond. \n\n\nAttendees will also be able to test live dem onstrations of ARME\, where participants can interact with virtual musicia ns and adaptive metronomes in real-time. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Details:\n\n\nDr Kate Kennedy is a writer\, cellist\, and BBC broadcaster. Her work combine s words and music\, in performance\, on the radio\, and on the page. She i s a Research Fellow in Life-Writing at Wolfson College\, Oxford\, and Dire ctor of the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing. Her most recent book\, Cello: A Journey Through Silence to Sound (2024) is part memoir\, part biography\ , and her previous biography Dweller in Shadows (2021) explored the life o f British poet-composer Ivor Gurney. She is a regular presenter for BBC Ra dio.\n\nNicholas Roberts is the cellist for the Coull Quartet\, an English string quartet originally formed at the Royal Academy of Music in London in 1974. Since 1977\, the Quartet has held the position of Quartet-in-Resi dence at the University of Warwick. Coull Quartet has toured extensively a cross the UK and internationally\, with appearances throughout Western Eur ope\, the Americas\, Australia\, China\, India\, and the Far East.\n\nDr M assimiliano Di Luca leads the ARME project\; he is an Associate Professor in the School of Psychology and in the School of Computer Science at the U niversity of Birmingham (UK). He received his Ph.D. in Cognitive Science f rom Brown University (USA) and has held research positions at the Max Plan ck Institute for Biological Cybernetics\, Oculus\, and Facebook Reality La bs. He has collaborated with industry leaders such as Facebook\, Google\, and Procter & Gamble\, applying academic research to real-world problems. His work spans psychophysics\, immersive technologies\, haptics\, and comp utational neuroscience\, with 70 scientific publications\, over 100 confer ence presentations\, and four patents. He has received funding from the Eu ropean Commission\, the Royal Society\, BBSRC\, and EPSRC\, and has been r ecognized as a Turing Fellow and a Fellow of the InterContinental Academia .\n\n \n\n\nProfessor Alan Wing was educated at King Edward VII Grammar Sc hool\, Sheffield\, from 1958 to 1963\, and at Edinburgh University (BSc Ps ychology and Physics) from 1964 to 1969. He obtained his PhD from McMaster University Ontario (PhD supervisor AB Kristofferson) in 1973 and worked a t Bell Labs NJ (Human Information Processing Section) as a postdoctoral re search fellow in 1974-1975. He joined the MRC Applied Psychology Unit Camb ridge in 1975\, leaving in 1997 to take up a Chair in Psychology at the Un iversity of Birmingham (Professor of Human Movement)\, where he currently leads the Active Touch Lab. His research spans sensory motor control (post ure and balance\, grip\, timing) and touch for perception and action\, inc luding the effects of aging.\n\n \n\n\nDr Diar Abdlkarim is a postdoctoral research scientist at the University of Birmingham\, specialising in imme rsive augmented and virtual reality technologies. His contribution to ARME is both entrepreneurial and scientific\, focusing on user research and so ftware infrastructure\, where he combines video capture\, psychophysics\, and software development. He holds a Ph.D. in computational neuroscience f rom the University of Birmingham\, where he studied sensory-motor control and neuroplasticity through immersive virtual reality training. He has pre viously worked as a research intern at Meta Reality Labs\, where he design ed experiments on wrist-based haptic feedback and hand tracking in virtual environments. His expertise spans computer vision\, physics-based simulat ion\, and real-time avatar interaction\, making him a key developer in ARM E’s technological advancement.\n\n \n\nEvguenni Penksik is the main soft ware developer of the ARME project. He has developed the real-time graphic s and sound-video integration for the system and contributed to the scient ific understanding of avatar synchronisation. With a background in computa tional neuroscience and cognitive robotics (MSc\, University of Birmingham \, 2019) and mechanical engineering (MEng\, University of Warwick\, 2007)\ , his expertise is in virtual and augmented reality\, machine learning\, 3 D graphics\, modelling\, and game development. His interests also extend t o music performance and production\, contributing to ARME’s unique inter section of technology and artistic expression.\n\n\nFurther Details and Co ntacts:\n\nThis hybrid event is free and open to all\; however\, registrat ion is recommended.\n\nThis event will be recorded and made available soon after on the OCLW website.\n\nRegistration will close at 10:30 am on 7 Ma y 2025. \n\nQueries regarding this event should be addressed to admin.oclw @wolfson.ox.ac.uk.\nSpeakers:\nDr Massimiliano Di Luca (University of Birm ingham)\, Professor Alan Wing (University of Birmingham)\, Dr Diar Abdlkar im (University of Birmingham)\, Evguenni Penksik (ARME project)\, Dr Kate Kennedy (broadcaster and historian (narrator))\, Nicholas Roberts LOCATION:Wolfson College (The Buttery and via Zoom\; accessibility informa tion available here: https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/accessibility-wolfson-co llege )\, Linton Road OX2 6UD TZID:Europe/London URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/11cb81d4-bda9-44de-8817-e9a2a98dfe6a/ BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:display DESCRIPTION:Talk:Seminar: Augmented Reality Music Ensemble (ARME)\, 'Live s of Ensembles' - Dr Massimiliano Di Luca (University of Birmingham)\, Pro fessor Alan Wing (University of Birmingham)\, Dr Diar Abdlkarim (Universit y of Birmingham)\, Evguenni Penksik (ARME project)\, Dr Kate Kennedy (broa dcaster and historian (narrator))\, Nicholas Roberts TRIGGER:-PT1H END:VALARM END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR