I travelled to Nottingham this week for the AI Music Studies (AIMS) 2026 conference, where I gave a response to Pelinski et al.’s paper in the session “Beyond Ethics, for a Critical Interdisciplinary AI Music Pedagogy.” Below is the response as I delivered it at the conference. I would like thank...

I recently gave a talk at the Audio Developer Conference (ADC) 2025 titled "Driving Chaos: Virtual Analog Modelling of a Chaotic Circuit with Wave Digital Filters". "What happens when analog circuits behave unpredictably—even chaotically? This beginner-friendly talk dives into the fascinating...

I was invited to give an interview to the Jornal Comunidades Lusófonas. You can read the original interview here. In the interview, I reflect on my academic journey, which began in Portugal and led me to an international research career in the UK, and now at Imperial College London. I consider...

“How to Choose a Good Scientific Problem” by Uri Alon presents a rather enlightening analysis and very good advice to both students and supervisors. The premise of the article is that choosing a scientific problem is closely related to nurturing, in that when choosing a problem, either for a PhD...

Recently, I’ve decided to revisit a foundational paper on research through design. In “Research in Art and Design”, Frayling attempts to unpack what research is in the context of arts and design. He starts by differentiating between ‘research’ and ‘Research’; while he links the usage of the former...

Last February the 25th, I gave a talk about ‘Making Music & Art with Machine Intelligence’ in the AI+JavaScript London meetup. I prepared a slide for that talk with a concept map that I designed and that abstracted some of the main AI-based techniques recently surveyed by Lopez-Lopez-Rincon,...

“Evaluating User Interface Systems Research” (Olsen, 2002) is a paper that I consider fundamental for critique of HCI evaluation, despite its longevity. It highlights the evaluation caveats of interactive systems, and the claims that can be made for complex systems and interactive innovations. They...

This is a review of two publications about user-centred design (UCD) and evaluation of infrastructural software (also known as middleware)—the 2002 technical report “Stuck in the Middle: Bridging the Gap Between Design, Evaluation, and Middleware” and the follow-on CHI 2003 paper “Stuck in the...

In “Constructivist Design for Interactive Machine Learning”, Advait Sarkar argues that the Interactive Machine Learning (IML) loop facilitates constructivist learning, as it maximises the interaction between end-users’ experience of the Machine Learning (ML) model and their ideas about the status...

Another review in my Human-Centred Machine Learning review series, authored by Simard et al. from Microsoft Research, “Machine Teaching: A New Paradigm for Building Machine Learning Systems” is a position paper and manifesto for Machine Teaching. Simard et al. propose Machine Teaching as a new...

Fresh out of CHI 2015, I came across a paper that tackles a problem many HCI researchers quietly wrestle with: how and whether our research prototypes actually make it into the world as products. In “From User-Centered to Adoption-Centered Design: A Case Study of an HCI Research Innovation...

I had a very special and memorable birthday lunch. It was a Saturday and I had a Phd masterclass at Universidade Católica Portuguesa, and there was this incredible gathering of people, between high profile composers, performers, electronic music scientists, interactive artists and my PhD...

In this paper I argued that music videogames, given the characteristics of the genre, may constitute an alternative and viable approach to music and audiovisual performance. Building on a music performance in 2013, in which I participated and used a videogame as a musical instrument, I analysed...

One of the most common openings for a blog post is: “After several months of inactivity…”. I think that happens when life outside the blog is bubbling with action and change. That’s certainly been the case for me. Since last spring, I’ve been swept into a whirlwind of events and gained such...