Giacomo Lepri

Current Research Interests

I am currently working on my PhD 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 diverse musical backgrounds, technical skills and cultural environments 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. - 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. 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 (NIME), Royal 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