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DMRN+20 one day workshop

When: Tuesday, December 16, 2025, 9:38 AM - 5:00 PM
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DMRN+20 marks the 20th edition of DMRN. Moreover, this annual gathering has a pre-history under other names, making it an institution that’s more like 25 years old!

This year, we celebrate that history and the ever-growing presence of music computing in and around London. As well as the usual offering (top-notch research and friendly social atmosphere), we’ll also consider the past and future of DMRN, and the possible roles for a regionally organised network of this kind in the few (perhaps even 25) years. This event is hosted at KCL in collaboration with – but outside of – C4DM for the first time in many years, and takes the theme “Collaboration, Coordination, and Community”.

AIM has been a part of DMRN since 2018, with all cohorts presenting posters at the event. Sure a few AIM students will be presenting this year.

Theme: “Collaboration, Coordination, and Community”.

This years’ theme is “Collaboration, Coordination, and Community”. You may like to include a nod to this theme in your submission (this is optional!) and/or in your chats with others at the event. For example, you might like to discuss research communities at both local (e.g., DMRN) and global (e.g., ISMIR) scales. Likewise, you might give thought to the wider music scholarship communities with which we sometime have less interaction than we ought (e.g., ICMPC). And what about the much wider communities of musicians (professional and amateur) in London and beyond? What does successful collaborative, coordinated, and community-oriented work looks like, and what might DMRN’s role be?

DMRN+20 is hosted at KCL in collaboration with – but outside of – C4DM for the first time in many years, and takes the theme “Collaboration, Coordination, and Community”.

Tuesday 16th December 2025

🕚 10:00–17:00hrs
📍 King’s College London

More info: https://www.qmul.ac.uk/dmrn/dmrn20/

Call for Contributions is already open.

* Deadlines

  1. 14 Nov 2025: Abstract submission deadline 
  2. 21 Nov 2025: Notification of acceptance 
  3. 15 Dec 2025: Registration deadline 
  4. 16 Dec 2025: DMRN+20 Workshop

Keynote speakers: 

  1. Keynote, invited speaker:
    1. Dr Julian Parker (Stability AI)

Keynote title: "Anatomy of a modern music generation model”.

Abstract: Generation of long-form musical audio using generative AI is one of the major developments of the last few years. In this talk, I walk through the principles behind such a model, how it is constructed, and the many design choices that must be made to ensure production-level quality - illustrated by examples from the Stable Audio model series.

  1. Invited panel:
    1. Dr Oded Ben-Tal (Kingston University London)
    2. Dr Diana Omigie (Goldsmiths, University of London)
    3. Dr Charalampos Saitis (Queen Mary University of London)

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