Current Research Interests 

PhD student at the Centre for Digital Music - Queen Mary University of London. My research is supported by the MAT programme. I am a member of the Augmented Instruments Laboratory,  

Some of the questions that are currently buzzing in my mind:

• What can an instrument tell us about the tacit assumptions and expectations that are at the genesis of the design process? 
• How specific musical knowledge and values are embedded within a new musical instrument? 
• How specific expertises related to different educations, backgrounds and cultural environment influence the design of a new musical instrument?
• Being even more cryptic: how subjectivities are transferred/translated into a new music design?

Here you can find some more details on my doctoral quests.

Conference Papers

• Lepri, G. and McPherson, A. P.  - Making Up Instruments: Design Fiction for Value Discovery in Communities of Musical Practice. Proc. ACM Designing Interactive Systems (DIS), San Diego, Californis, USA. 2019.

• Lepri G. and McPherson, A. P. - First-person Research in the Arts: Exploring the Values Behind New Music Technology. Proc. ACM Designing Interactive Systems (DIS), San Diego, Californis, USA. 2019.
  

• Lepri, G. and McPherson, A. P. - Fictional Instruments, Real Values: Discovering Musical Backgrounds with Non-Functional Prototypes. Proc. New Interfaces for Musical Expression, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. 2019.

• Gourdarzi, V., Gioti, A., Lepri, G., and Morreale, F. - Exploring Participatory Sound Art. Proc. International Conference on Music Computing (ICMC) 2019, New York City, New York, USA. 2019.
  

• Lepri, G. and McPherson, A. P. -  Mirroring the past, from typewriting to interactive art: an approach to the re-design of a vintage technology. In proceedings of the  New Interfaces for Musical Expression, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA. NIME 2018

• Lepri, G. - InMuSIC: an Interactive System for Electroacoustic Improvisation. In Proceedings of the 42nd International Computer Music Conference - Paper & Performance (pp. 2 - 6). ICMC 2016

• Lepri, G. - Playing with InMuSIC: An Interactive Multimodal System for Improvised Composition. In Proceedings of 2015 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Creativity and Cognition - Art Track - (pp. 387-388). ACM

• Lepri, G., Canepa, C., Volpe, G., Ghisio, S., Camurri, A. -  Crafting Sound with the Potter, In Proceedings of the 20th Colloquium on Music Informatics, (pp. 101-106). 2016

Conference Posters

• Lepri, G. Where does your instrument come from? EiTIC Doctoral Student Workshop, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2018.

• Varni, G., Volpe, G., Sagoleo, R., Mancini, M., & Lepri, G. Interactive reflexive and embodied exploration of sound qualities with BeSound. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children (pp. 531-534). ACM

Master Thesis 

• Composing Interaction - Supervised by Kristina Andersen and Joel Ryan - Instruments & Interfaces Master Programme - Royal Conservatory of The Hague - Institute of Sonology - STEIM - 2016

Journal articles

• Lepri, G. "InMuSIC - Un sistema interattivo multimodale per l’improvvisazione elettroacustica, Quaderni di ricerca del Paganini. 2016

Editor

• Co-editor of the "Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference of Students of Systematic Musicology" - SysMus13 - 2013

Research Projects I had the pleasure to work on

• EPSRC UK Research & Innovation - Design for Virtuosity: Modelling and Supporting Expertise in Digital Musical Interaction
• EU Culture METABODY  - “Media Embodiment Tékhne And Bridges Of Diversity”
• EU ICT MIROR  - "Musical Interaction Relying On Reflexion"
• EU ICT SIEMPRE -  “Social Interaction Entrainment using Music Performance”