Digital Musical Instruments - Sonic Interaction Design - Digital Fabrication - Qualitative Research Methods

I obtained a PhD from  the Centre for Digital Music - Queen Mary University of London with the support of the MAT programme. I've been working with some great people at the Augmented Instruments Laboratory under the supervision of Andrew McPherson.  You can find here more details on my doctoral quests. More recently, I worked as composer in residence at IEM (Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustic) Uni Graz within the Inter_agency project, and as postdoc at the Intelligent Instruments Lab - Icelandic University of the Arts. I am currently doing research on interaction design methods for children at InfoMus - Casa Paganini, University of Genoa. In between and throughout these larger projects, I often run research collaborations, art-technology consultancies and small workshops on digital instruments design. 

I am always looking for new adventures. Please get in touch if you would like to have a chat! 

Peer-reviewed publications

• N. Privato, G. Lepri, T. Magnusson, E. T. Einarsson. Sketching Magnetic Interactions for Neural Synthesis. Proc. International Conference on Technologies for Music Notation and Representation (TENOR), Zurich, Switzerland. 2024

• G. Lepri,  N. Corbellini, S. Ferrando, G. Volpe, A. Camurri. Let’s Play: Early Explorations of Child-Caregiver Embodied Interactions. Proc. ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference (IDC), Delft, the Netherlands. 2024
  

• N. Merendino, G. Lepri, A. Rodá, R. Masu. Redesigning the Chowndolo: a Reflection-on-action Analysis to Identify Sustainable Strategies for NIMEs Design. Proc. New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), Mexico City, Mexico. 2023.

• P. Preece, M. Jack and G.Lepri. Oscillations: Composing a Performance Ecosystem through a Sonic Cyberfeminist Lens. Proc. New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), Mexico City, Mexico. 2023.

• G. Lepri, J. Bowers, S. Topley, P. Stapleton, P. Bennett, K. Andersen and A. McPherson. The 10,000 Instruments Workshop - (Im)practical Research for Critical Speculation. Proc. New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), Auckland, New Zealand. 2022.
  

• C. N. Reed, C. Nordmoen, A. Martelloni, G. Lepri, N. Robson, E. Zayas-Garin, K. Cotton, L. Mice and A. McPherson. Exploring Experiences with New Musical Instruments through Micro-phenomenology. Proc. New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), Auckland, New Zealand. 2022.

• G. Lepri and A. McPherson. Embrace the Weirdness: Negotiating Values Inscribed into Music Technology. Computer Music Journal. Vol. 45, Issue 3, 2021.

• Lepri, G. - Sonification as Negotiation - Learning from Translation Studies. Proc. Sound and Music Computing (SMC), University of Turin - Polytechnic School and Conservatorio di Musica G. Verdi, Turin, Italy. 2020.
  

• McPherson A. P. and Lepri, G. - Beholden to Our Tools: Negotiating with Technology while Sketching Digital Instruments. Proc. of New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, Birmingham, UK. 2020.
  

• Lepri, G., McPherson, A. P., Nonnis, A., Stapleton, P., Andersen, K., Mudd, T., Bennett P., and Topley. S. - Play Make Believe: Exploring Design Fiction and Absurd Making for Critical NIME Design. New Interfaces for Musical Expression Workshop, Birmingham Conservatoire, Birmingham, UK. 2020.
  

• Boem, A., Troiano, G. M., Lepri G., and Zappi, V. - Non-Rigid Musical Interfaces: Exploring Practices, Takes, and Future Perspective. Proc. New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, Birmingham, UK. 2020.
  

• Lepri, G., McPherson, A. P. and Bowers, J. - Useless, not Worthless: Absurd Making as Critical Practice. Proc. ACM Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) - Honorable Mention Award, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. 2020.
  

• 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. Proc.  New Interfaces for Musical Expression, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA. NIME 2018

• Lepri, G. InMuSIC: un sistema interattivo multimodale per l’improvvisazione elettroacustica. Proc. Colloquium on Music Informatics - Udine. 2018

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

• Lepri, G., Canepa, C., Volpe, G., Ghisio, S., Camurri, A. -  Crafting Sound with the Potter. Proc. Colloquium on Music Informatics. 2016

• Lepri, G. - InMuSIC: an Interactive System for Electroacoustic Improvisation. Proc. International Computer Music Conference - Paper & Performance. ICMC 2016
  

• Lepri, G. - Playing with InMuSIC: An Interactive Multimodal System for Improvised Composition. Proc. ACM SIGCHI Conference on Creativity and Cognition - Art Track. 2015
  

• Varni, G., Volpe, G., Sagoleo, R., Mancini, M., & Lepri, G. Interactive reflexive and embodied exploration of sound qualities with BeSound. Proc. ACM International Conference on Interaction Design and Children. 2013
  

PhD & Master Thesis 

• Play-Make-Believe: Discovering the Musical Values Inscribed into Digital Instruments. PhD thesis - Supervised by Andrew McPherson - Examiners: Michael Gurevich & Jonathan Impett - School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science - Queen Mary University of London, UK. 2022.
  
• Composing Interaction - Master thesis - Supervised by Kristina Andersen and Joel Ryan - Instruments & Interfaces 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

• EU ERC INTENT - Intelligent Instruments: Understanding 21st-Century AI Through Creative Music Technologies
  
• 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”