Max delves into the Augmented Reality Music Ensemble project in an interview at the University of Birmingham. The project’s core ambition is to understand human synchronization during musical performances. And by leveraging advanced technologies the team endeavours to develop a system that enables musicians to rehearse collectively, even when not in the physical presence of each other.

The VR Lab has a new website

The recent Rhythm Perception and Production Workshop (RPPW) showcased groundbreaking research and exciting advancements in the scientific study of rhythm perception and production. Among the standout contributors were the talented staff of the Augmented Reality Music Ensemble, who presented a remarkable collection of six posters and one keynote at this esteemed conference.

We are delighted to announce a groundbreaking development in the project. We have successfully created a remarkable plug-in designed to simulate the harmonious synchronization of musicians within a violin quartet, opening up new possibilities for testing and experimentation in group music performance.

The ARME team will presenting the project at an event hosted by Creative Futures, a new scheme set up by the Warwick Innovation District and University of Warwick to develop collaborations between academics and the creative industries in the Warwickshire region.

We are excited to announe the novel demo section of the website, which introduces the results of our music annotation effort as well as the Virtuoso sting dataset, a set of annotated quartet recordings.

Among the recordings performed during the first session with the Coull quartet, LiDAR data was captured for each of the musicians. LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) determines distance at several points by measuring how long it takes laser light to reach an object and reflect back.

The ARME project has a new logo created by Antony Antoniu

Lovely dinner by all the ARME academics at “The Physician” to celebrate the completion of the first set of recordings.

At the BCU media labs, with our partners Semantic audio and Partplay, we recently recorded the musicians of the Coull quartet performing numerous pieces from Haydn and Beethoven. We asked the Coulls to play the parts multiple times in different styles (also in trios and duos formations).