Integra Lab

Description

Integra Lab is the music interaction research lab founded by Jamie Bullock and Lamberto Coccioli in 2009, at the end of the first phase of the EU-funded Integra – Fusing Music and Technology project.

As pioneers of the conceptual framework ‘musician-centred design’, members place musicians and music making at the heart of what they do, developing technologies that empower users and let them think “in music”. The Integra Live software, for example, was specifically conceived to support musicians in the design and control of their live interaction with electronics.

Integra Lab has also a strong track record of supporting productions and exploring novel applications of technology in the creative process and in performance. Members have worked on a range of composition and performance projects with composers such as Jonathan Harvey, Kaija Saariaho, Julian Anderson, Hilda Paredes and Philippe Leroux, to name just a few. Outputs from Integra Lab members include works for instruments and live electronics, digital instruments, mixed media and audiovisual, and sonic installations.

Another important strand of Integra Lab's work is to provide training and support to ensembles and composers in the performance of works from the live electronics repertoire that make use of technologies now obsolete. The Lab has “modernized” works by Pierre Boulez, Luigi Nono, Roger Reynolds, Edwin Roxburgh, Tristan Murail, Luca Francesconi, Philippe Hurel and many others, often working directly with the composers themselves, and the Lab has supported performances of the new versions of the works all over the world.

Areas of activity include:

• Developing interactive software for music creation, performance and education (Synesthesia web app, Integra Live, Transforming Transformations, Tape, ml.lib, LibXtract)
• Undertaking applied and practice-led research in musical creativity (Augmented Vocality, Inclusive Digital Instruments, Integra – Fusing Music and Technology projects).
• Supporting the production and sustainability of compositions and performances with interactive technologies (Integra Lab concerts at RBC, Jonathan Harvey Project)
• Developing novel applications of technology in the creative process and in performance (formuls, Hearing and Feeling Memories, HarpCI, MyoMapper).

Offers funding

No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.

Founding year

2009

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Birmingham City University
Birmingham

Partner Infrastructures

Conservatoire Composition Cluster

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Birmingham

Partner Universities

The Glasgow School of Art

University of Cambridge

University of West London