Books and Book chapters
2025 Vear, C., & Poltronieri, F., (2025) “Crafting Artificial Musicians: building Solaris as a co-operative, perceiving and creative AI” in Zagalo, N., & Keller, D., (eds) Artificial Media: Emerging Trends in Narratives, Education and Creative Practice https://link.springer.com/book/9783031890369
2022 Vear, C., (ed) (2022) “The Routledge International Handbook of Practice-Based Research” - https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-International-Handbook-of-Practice-Based-Research/Vear/p/book/9780367341435
2022 Vear, C., & Poltronieri, F., (eds)(2022) The Language of Creative AI - https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-10960-7
2022 Vear, C., (2022) “Embodied Musicking Robots” in Vear, C., & Poltronieri, F., (eds) (2022) The Language of Creative AI
2022 Vear, C., & Poltronieri, F.,(2022) “Introduction” in Vear, C., & Poltronieri, F., (eds) (2022) The Language of Creative AI
Peer-reviewed published papers and articles
2025 Moroz, S., & Vear, C. Transforming Practice: The Impact of Digital Scores on Creativity, Performance, and Accessibility. Tempo, 78(313), https://doi.org/10.1017/S0040298225000129
2024 Vear, C., & Poltronieri, F., (2024) “Musicking with Solaris – a systematic musicology method to identifying relationship building, togetherness and meaning-making in human-AI co-creativity”. Proceedings of First International Conference of MAI Music Studies, Stockholm, December 2024
2024 Vear, C., & Benerradi, J. (2024). Jess+: Designing embodied AI for interactive music-making. ArXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.06469
2024 Robertson, J., Moroz, S., Hope, C., Vear, C., Sanadzadeh, I., Svoboda, H., & Sobek, C. (2024). Transforming Practice with Digital Scores: Developments and Challenges in a Transcontinental Residency. Tempo, 78(309), https://doi.org/10.1017/S0040298224000044
2024 Amerotti, M., Sturm, B., Benford, S., Maruri-Aguilar, H., Vear, C.. Evaluation of an Interactive Music Performance System in the Context of Irish Traditional Dance Music. In Proceedings New Interfaces for Musical Expression NIME’24. International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression.
2024 Vear, C., Poltronieri, F., DiDonato, B., Zhang, Y., Benerradi, J., Hutchinson, S., Turowski, P., Shell, J., & Malekmohamadi, H. (2024, April). Building an Embodied Musicking Dataset for co-creative music-making. Presented at 13th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design (EvoMUSART) 2024, Aberystwyth University, Wales
2024 Shi, X., & Vear, C. (2024, April). Generating emotional music based on improved C-RNN-GAN. Presented at 13th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design (EvoMUSART) 2024, Aberystwyth University, Wales
2024 Moroz, S., & Vear, C. (2024). Digital Musicianship: Evaluation of the Digital Score Research from the North American Tour 2023. In (Eds.), GAPS2 - Global Arts and Psychology Seminar “Creativity in music and the arts”: 14-16 September 2023 York, Graz, La Plata, & Melbourne: BOOK OF ABSTRACTS. University of Graz. https://doi.org/10.25364/554.2024.1
2024 Poltronieri, F., & Vear, C. (2024, June). Towards sentience: A path through jazz, datasets and digital scores. Paper presented at International Symposium of Electronic Art 2024, Brisbane, Australia
2024 Moroz, S., Vear, C., & Poltronieri, F. (2024). Evaluation of digital musicianship in higher education through playing and creating digital scores. TENOR, 18. https://www.tenor-conference.org/proceedings.html
2024 Vear, C., Hazzard, A., Moroz, S., & Benerradi, J. (2024, May). Jess+: AI and robotics with inclusive music-making. In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-17).
2024 Vear, C., & Moroz, S., (2022-24) “Diving Deep with Nautilus: an analysis of musicking with a game engine as a digital score”, Journal of Creative Music Systems 8(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.5920/jcms.1261
2023 Vear, C., Benford, S., Avila, J. M., & Moroz, S. (2023). Human-AI Musicking: A Framework for Designing AI for Music Co-creativity. AIMC 2023. Retrieved from https://aimc2023.pubpub.org/pub/zd46ltn3
2023 Amerotti, M., Benford, S., Sturm, B., Vear, C., (2023) “A Live Performance Rule System arising from Irish Traditional Dance Music”. Proceedings from CMMR2023, the 16th International Symposium on Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research
2023 Benford, S., Hazzard, A., Vear, C., Webb, H., Chamberlain, A., Greenhalgh, C., Ramchurn, R., Marshall, J., (2023) “Five Provocations for a More Creative Trustworthy Autonomous System”. TAS ‘23: Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous SystemsJuly 2023, Article No.: 14, pp 1–10 https://doi.org/10.1145/3597512.3599709
2023 Vear, C., Moroz, S., (2023) “The Digital Score: a review of research spanning 2022-23”. Proceedings from TENOR Conference 2023, https://www.tenor-conference.org/proceedings.html
2023 Vear, C., Rees, C., & Stephenson, A. (2023). “NAUTILUS: A CASE STUDY IN HOW A DIGITAL SCORE CAN TRANSFORM CREATIVITY”. Tempo, 77(303), 33-42. doi:10.1017/S0040298222000791 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/tempo/article/abs/nautilus-a-case-study-in-how-a-digital-score-can-transform-creativity/ECA8754B7F504F62A1B54D343D8E093C
2021 Vear, C., “Creative AI and Musicking Robots” in Frontiers in Robotics and AI https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frobt.2021.631752/full
Performances
2024 Solaris by Craig Vear and Fabrizio Poltronieri, full set performance at Stallet, Stockholm, December 2024
2024 Solaris by Craig Vear and Fabrizio Poltronieri, full set performance at Music, Monash University, October 2024
2024 Solaris by Craig Vear and Fabrizio Poltronieri, full set performance at Sensilab, Monash University - September 2024
2024 DigiScore Ensemble full set performance at Cimarosa Conservatory in Avellino, Italy. June 2024
2024 Solaris by Craig Vear and Fabrizio Poltronieri, full set performance at New College, Oxford - June 2024
2024 Solaris by Craig Vear and Fabrizio Poltronieri, full set performance at Haslet Rooms, London - March 2024
2024 Jess+ first public performance at Institute of Engineering, Savoy House. Part of the TAS showcase - March 2024
2023 Jess+ premiere performance at BBC Media Cafe, London. Part of the BRAID conference - September 2023
2023 Returns & Simulacra by Solomiya Moroz. Premiered at NIME conference 2023, Mexico City, Mexico
2023 GuitaRPG by Xavier Davenport. Premiere of Neoscore competition award winner. TENOR conference 2023, Boston, USA
2023 Shadow Aria by Jaslyn Robertson. TENOR conference 2023, Boston, USA
2023 502 Days of Self by Iran Sanadzadeh. TENOR conference 2023, Boston, USA
2023 Their Lives are Stripped of Meaning by Cat Hope. TENOR conference 2023, Boston, USA
2023 Kaleidescope by Lauren McCall. Premiere of Neoscore competition award runner-up. TENOR conference 2023, Boston, USA
2023 Tendons For Transformation by Kitty Xiao. Commissioned by DigiScore and TENOR 2023. TENOR conference 2023, Boston, USA
2023 Paths/Fields by Ingrid Laubrock. Commissioned by DigiScore and TENOR 2023. TENOR conference 2023, Boston, USA
2023 DigiScore Concert – presenting works of DigiScore partners and CIRMMT composers, Montreal, Canada March 9, 2023
2022 New Music from Digital Scores from Monash University Ensemble – Hamburg, Germany, Dec 11, 2022
2022 Nautilus, Royal Academy of Music, London, Nov 2022
2022 Pathways in-lab performance by Dejana Sekulic, July 2022
2022 New commisssions, TENOR conference performance, May 2022 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvNSDtsreCf5QjQckk5ryIYBqxZ6xuc0R
2022 Nautilus in-lab performance by Franziska Baumann, DMU, May 2022 https://youtu.be/SV6TqzJkiX4
2022 Nautilus in-lab performance by Carla Rees, DMU, March 2022 https://youtu.be/XK-9eXCJxCg
Residencies & Fellowships
2024-25 Macharia Kelvin - JoyInst. investigate how the digital score JoyInst can mitigate the accessibility challenges that Disabled music students face in music-making. We shall work with participants from Joytown Secondary School, a special school for physically disabled people.
2023-24 Ben Hopkinson - Open Orchestra. Using DigiScore Creativity cards to create large scale digital score for inclusive ensemble across 3 SEND schools in Teesside
2023 Browser Festival – DigiScore is supporting one individual artist in creation of a browser based digital score, July 2023
2022 Dejana Sekulic’s fellowship in DigiScore Lab – making of an interactive digital score based on migration patterns of birds, July, 2022
Presentations & Workshops
2024 Creativity Card Workshop. Sydney Conservatory of Music, Sydney. October 5-8, 2024
2024 Creativity Card Workshop. Adelaide University, Melbourne. October 2, 2024
2024 DigiScore Presentation at Adelaide University, Australia. October 2, 2024
2024 Creativity Card Workshop. Monash University, Melbourne. September 2024
2024 DigiScore Presentation in Lasalle University of the Arts, Singapore. September 2024
2024 DigiScore Presentation in WRO (Wroclaw Art Centre), Wroclaw, Poland, June 27, 2024
2024 DigiScore seminar at Edna Manley School of Music, Jamaica, March 15, 2024
2024 DigiScore seminar at Georgia Tech, February 15, 2024
2023 DigiScore seminar at RITMO, University of Oslo, October 15, 2023
2023 Creativity Cards Workshop (DigiScore Team) at Cimarosa Conservatory in Avellino, Italy, October 11-14, 2023
2023 Digital Musicianship: Evaluation of the Digital Score Research from the North American Tour
2023 (Solomiya Moroz), GAPS2 - Global Arts and Psychology Seminar “Creativity in music and the arts”, Book of Abstracts, Kempf, A., Parncutt, R., Martínez, I. C., Pérez, J. B., Glasser, S., Osborne, M., Daffern, H., Waddington-Jones, C., O’Neill, K., Schiavio, A. (org.), 2024. https://doi.org/10.25364/554.2024.1
2023 Jess+ Demo at First International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS ‘23), Harriot Watts University, Edinburgh - July 2023
2023 Digital Musical Instruments as Digital Score (Solomiya Moroz), Music Ex Machina Symposium, Royal Holloway, London, June 2023
2023 Jess+ Explaining co-creative AI and robotics for mixed-ability ensemble. TENOR conference 2023, Boston, USA
2023 Neoscore. TENOR conference 2023, Boston, USA
2022 DigiScore Lecture Presentation (Solomiya Moroz) at HKMT (Hamburg University School of Music and Theatre) – Dec 13, 2022
2022 Systematic Musicology Conference in Ghent (Solomiya Moroz) Poster presentation on the Methodology of the Digital Score project – September 7-9, Ghent, Belgium
2022 DigiScore Online Lecture Presentation (Solomiya Moroz) at Université d’Aix en Provence, October 21, 2022
2022 Digiscore workshop, (Craig Vear) Music Department Belkent University, Turkey - November 2022
2022 Digiscore lecture with Dr Carla Rees (Craig Vear) Royal Academy of Music, London, UK - September 2022
2022 DigiScore Keynote (Craig Vear) at TENOR 2022 conference in Marseille, France – May 9-11, 2022
2022 Digiscore lecture (Craig Vear) Institute of Musicology, Graz University - March 2022
2022 Digiscore lecture (Craig Vear) Institute of Systematic Musicology, Ghent University - March 2022
2022 Digiscore lecture (Craig Vear) University of Porto & University of Algarve, Portugal - February 2022
Consultations
Universal Edition - https://www.universaledition.com/
Orchestras Live - https://www.orchestraslive.org.uk/
Sinfonia Viva - https://www.sinfoniaviva.co.uk/
Orpheus Institute - https://orpheusinstituut.be/en/
Interviews and Podcasts
2024 Interview with electronic musician Juan Parra Cancino https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSARK7M6y5E
2024 Interview with composer Georg Hajdu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PufAAcTsWAI
2024 Trans-Disciplinary Insight 7 - Ollie Bown, Jan 2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yB65O8PN9Nw&t=10s
2023 Interview with new media artist Nandita Kumar https://digiscore.github.io/2023-11-17-Interview_with_Nandita_Kumar/
2023 In-Music Podcast - Evelyn Glennie https://shows.acast.com/in-music/episodes/evelyn-glennie
2013 In-Music Podcast - Sandeep Bhagwati https://shows.acast.com/in-music/episodes/sandeep-bhagwati
2023 In-Music Podcast - Elisabeth Wiklander https://shows.acast.com/in-music/episodes/elisabeth-wiklander
2023 Trans-Disciplinary Insight 6 - Laura Bishop, Jan 2023 https://youtu.be/VfATlNUdT8w
2023 Interview with Konstantina Orlandatou, January 2023 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orAS-CfyB8g&t=246s
2022 Interview with Ine Vanoeveren, Nov 2022 https://youtu.be/I3utpeD-Yb0
2022 Interview with Terri Hron, October 2022
2022 In-Music Podcast - Marco Ciciliani, July 2022 https://play.acast.com/s/6246daa76baf5b00124b9927/628f7a2f351b980013e5e77f
2022 Interview with Dejana Sekulic, July 2022
2022 In-Music Podcast - Julian Arguelles, June 2022 https://play.acast.com/s/6246daa76baf5b00124b9927/628f8308351b980013e61290
2022 In-Music Podcast - Franziska Baumann, May 2022 https://play.acast.com/s/6246daa76baf5b00124b9927/6271961c979ede001285133a
2022 In-Music Podcast - Craig Hultgren, May 2022 https://play.acast.com/s/6246daa76baf5b00124b9927/626bb21a162abf00141a2b60
2022 Trans-Disciplinary Insight 5 - Ulla Kallenbach, April 2022 https://youtu.be/G-W_7I1bDRU
2022 In-Music Podcast - Carla Rees, April 2022 https://play.acast.com/s/6246daa76baf5b00124b9927/6246e9b4b68b3c0012ad2ebe
2022 Trans-Disciplinary Insight 4 - Jesper Juul, March 2022 https://youtu.be/_oJRNavMjl8
2022 Trans-Disciplinary Insight 3 - Marc Leman, March 2022 https://youtu.be/PUIbr16p39Q
2022 Trans-Disciplinary Insight 2 - Andrea Schiavio, Feb 2022 https://youtu.be/SRLeLxNEXwk
2022 Interview with PA Tremblay, Feb 2022
2022 Trans-Disciplinary Insight 1 - Simon Emmerson, Jan 2022 https://youtu.be/eta3PQBI_Ys
Open source code
Project GitHub repository https://github.com/DigiScore
2023 “Jess+ (2023)” Musicking robot interacting in real-time with a musician ensemble through drawing digital score. https://github.com/DigiScore/jess_plus
2023 “GuitaRPG (2023)” An interactive 2-dimensional score through which the performer may freely navigate. https://github.com/Xavman42/GuitaRPG
2023 “RNN_Groover (2023)” A collection of scripts to generate performances and variations of Irish traditional folk tunes. Collaboration with Marco Amerotti, Steve Benford, Bob Sturm https://github.com/DigiScore/RNN_groover ; Examples https://amerotz.notion.site/A-Live-Performance-Rule-System-arising-from-Irish-Traditional-Dance-Music-425c07e5d1ea42f0b7e351d93dbdba52
2022 “Nautilus (2022)” Digital Score; Intermedia composition for bass flute, neural network and Unity game environment (2022) https://figshare.dmu.ac.uk/articles/software/Nautilus_digital_score_Win_Mac_/19762120
2022 “neoscore” Python Library - https://neoscore.org/
Data set
2024 “Journey through a Changing World for Open Orchestra” http://doi.org/10.17639/nott.7485
2024 “Exercices d’étrangeté III Mycorrhizia” by Sandeep Bhagwati http://doi.org/10.17639/nott.7445
2024 “Point Line Piano” by Jarek Kapuscinski http://doi.org/10.17639/nott.7414
2024 “Sound Drawing in Space” http://doi.org/10.17639/nott.7411
2024 “Netronomia by Ethan Cayko” http://doi.org/10.17639/nott.7409
2024 “Queer Temporal by Solomiya Moroz” http://doi.org/10.17639/nott.7390
2024 “Returns & Simulacra by Solomiya Moroz” http://doi.org/10.17639/nott.7385
2024 “Jess+: Intelligent Digiscore for inclusive music-making” http://doi.org/10.17639/nott.7380
2023 “Dynamic Landscapes - DigiScore Internship” http://doi.org/10.17639/nott.7343
2023 “Speechless Opera by Cat Hope” https://rdmc.nottingham.ac.uk/handle/internal/10797
2023 “Fold by Ted Moore” https://rdmc.nottingham.ac.uk/handle/internal/10796
2023 “2 TENOR 2023 Commissions by DigiScore partner Sandeep Bhagwati” http://doi.org/10.17639/nott.7320
2023 “DigiScore TENOR Neoscore commission, Xavier Davenport” http://doi.org/10.17639/nott.7318
2023 “DigiScore TENOR Neoscore commission Lauren McCall” http://doi.org/10.17639/nott.7319
2023 “Australian Composers’ Residency in HfMT, Hamburg, Germany” https://rdmc.nottingham.ac.uk/handle/internal/10506
2022 “Digital Syzygies” https://figshare.dmu.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Digital_Syzygies/21429138
2022 “Dejana Fellowship” https://figshare.dmu.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Pathways_Dejana_Sekulic_s_fellowship/21270609
2022 “Nautilus” https://figshare.dmu.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Nautilus_digiscore_case_study_dataset_2022/20418447
2022 “TENOR 2022 premieres” https://figshare.dmu.ac.uk/articles/dataset/TENOR22_dataset/21269277