Music Interaction Innovation Research Unit (MIIRU)

The Music Interaction Innovation Research Unit works at the intersection of music, new technologies, intermedia and sonic traditions to develop innovative software, interactive methods of production, new works and scholarly publications. The focus is on enhancing interaction between musicians and computers, musicians and the Internet, musicians and graphic and other media, cross-cultural interaction between electronic music and traditional instruments, multimedia creativity and live musical performance, innovative composition, and other new directions in performance and musicology. Musicological research and publications are focussed on the nexus of creativity, performance and technology; and on new approaches to music history and analysis.