I am a composer and Professor in Computer Music. I run the Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research (ICCMR).

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is shaping the future of many professions, and the creative industry is no exception. My research examines how to harness AI for creativity and educate future generations of AI-ready professionals.

To study for a doctorate under my supervision, please do not hesitate to contact me to discuss your interests.

I am an experienced PhD supervisor (Director of Studies). I have guided dozens of doctoral students to successful completion and have considerable experience with post-graduate external examinations.

My doctoral graduates have secured jobs all over the world, from Asia (e.g., Education University of Hong Kong) and North America (e.g., McGill University, Canada), to Europe (e.g., University of the Arts, Berlin), and in a wide range of companies such as Arm microprocessors, L-Acoustics and the Met Office. 

I have been developing and composing music using AI since the 1980s. In 1995, I defended what is likely the first PhD thesis in the UK on developing AI for music at the University of Edinburgh. I championed the application of neo-Darwinian evolutionary algorithms to model the origins of music and the development of bio-inspired computational models for musical creativity. 

Recently, I made the headlines of Forbes Magazine as a pioneer in leveraging AI with Quantum Computing for music.

Within the last decade or so I have raised over £5M worth of research grants to develop my ambition to put the University of Plymouth at the forefront of Digital Health and Music Technology. Today, we are internationally recognised for spearheading the field of Brain-Computer Music Interfacing and AI applications to support people living with dementia.

Fun facts: I have composed a number of symphonies and an opera and have had the privilege to share the stage with the BBC Concert Orchestra, BBC Singers, London Sinfonietta, Jarvis Cocker, American beatboxer Butterscotch, and a few other great artists. Furthermore, I am an NFT artist and I was the first classical music composer ever to give a concert in the Metaverse.

In 2015, I made the headlines worldwide for improvising music with a single-cell organism. (Check this example in The Guardian.)

Follow me on LinkedIn for news on my research and outreach activity.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Quantum Computing
• Unconventional Computing
• Music Technology
• Brain-Computer Music Interfacing
• Music Composition 
• Electroacoustic Music
• Sound Art

• Editorial Board: Organised Sound, Cambridge University Press.
• Editorial Board: Contemporary Music Review, Routledge.
• Editorial Board: Journal of Sonic Studies.
• Editorial Board: International Journal of Unconventional Computing, Old City Publishing
• Reviewing Board: IEEE Multimedia.
• Editorial Board: The Scientific World Journal.

Peer Reviewing:

• Peer review college of the Austrian Science Foundation (FWF), Austria.
• Peer review college of the Danish Council for Strategic Research, Denmark.
• Anonymous peer reviewing of numerous research grant proposals for the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong, EPSRC, AHRC, The Wellcome Trust, Racomedi.
• Review Panel for Alban Scholarships, European Union (2006–2009).

Successful PhD completions:

2024, University of Plymouth, Ryan Thomas Green. PhD Thesis: Towards Elucidating Psychological Arousal in Response to Music Theatre.

2023, University of Plymouth, Jared Drayton. PhD Thesis: An Evolutionary Algorithms Approach to Physical Modelling of Vocal Synthesis.

2022, University of Plymouth, Satvik Venkatesh. PhD Thesis: Deep Learning for Audio Segmentation and Intelligent Remixing.

2022, University of Plymouth, Candida Borges da Silva. PhD Thesis: Immersive Installation: “Transeuntis Mundi”.

2019, University of Plymouth, Nicholas Reeves. PhD Thesis: From the Harmony of the Spheres to Spherical Harmonies: The Potential of Wave-based Morphogenic Processes for Musical and Architectural Composition.

2019, University of Plymouth, Nuria B. Filella. PhD Thesis: Data Sonification in Creative Practice.

2018, University of Plymouth, Michael Mcloughlin. PhD Thesis: The Development and Application of Computational Multi-Agent Models for Investigating the Cultural Transmission and Cultural Evolution of Humpback Whale Song.

2017, University of Plymouth, Aurelien Antoine. PhD Thesis: An Investigation into Using Artificial Intelligence to Aid Composition of Timbre using Orchestral Instruments.

2017, University of Plymouth, Federico Visi, PhD Thesis: Methods and Technologies for the Analysis and Interactive Use of Body Movements in Instrumental Music Performance.

2016, University of Plymouth, Edward Braund. PhD Thesis: Unconventional Computing and Music: An Investigation into Harnessing Physarum polycephalum.

2016, University of Plymouth, Joel Eaton. PhD Thesis: Brain-Computer Music Interfacing: Designing Practical Systems for Creative Applications.

2014, University of Plymouth, Hans Holger Rutz. PhD Thesis: Tracing the Compositional Process.

2013, University of Plymouth, Nikolas Valsamakis. PhD Thesis: Non-Standard Sound Synthesis with Dynamic Models.

2013, University of Plymouth, Christian Dimpker. PhD Thesis: Extended Notation: The Depiction of the Unconventional.

2012, University of Plymouth, Noris Mohd Norowi. PhD Thesis: AnArtificial Intelligence Approach to Concatenative Sound Synthesis.

2012, University of Plymouth, Daniel Livingstone. PhD Thesis: Design Strategies for Adaptive Social Composition: Collaborative SoundEnvironments.

2012, University of Plymouth, Joao Martins. PhD Thesis: Emergent Rhythmic Structures asCultural Phenomena Driven by Social Pressure in a Society of Artificial Agents.

2011, University of Plymouth, Alexis Kirke. PhD Thesis: Application of Intermediate Multi-Agent Systems to IntegratedAlgorithmic Composition and Expressive Performance of Music.

2010, University of Plymouth, Peter Beyls. PhD Thesis: Music as Emergent Complex Behaviour.

2010, University of Plymouth, Leandro Costalonga. PhD Thesis: Biomechanical Modelling of Musical Performance: A Case Study of theGuitar

2009, University of Plymouth, Marcelo Gimenes. PhD Thesis: An Approach to Machine Development of Musical Ontogeny.

2001, University of Glasgow, Alexander Duncan. PhD Thesis: EEG Pattern Classification for the Brain-Computer Musical Interface.

1999, University of Glasgow, Kenneth McAlpine. PhD Thesis: Application of Dynamical Systems to Music Composition.

Concerts Worldwide (a selection from the last 15 years):

2025: WEP2025, KAUST, Saudi Arabia.

2024: Linecheck Festival, Milan, Italy.

2024: Laboratory of Entangled Space Festival, Riga, Latvia.

2024: Quantum Inspire, Delft, The Netherlands.

2024: Quantum Itineraries Week, Nicosia, Cyprus.

2024: Al Ula Future Culture Summitt, Al Ula, Saudi Arabia.

2024: CTM Festival, Radialsystem, Berlin, Germany.

2024: Einstein Centre Digital Cultures, Berlin, Germany.

2023: Complementary Contradiction Festival, Riga, Latvia.

2023: Kings Place, London Sinfonietta, London, UK.

2023: ICFO Institute, Barcelona, Spain.

2023: Ligeti Centre, Hamburg, Germany.

2023: IKLECTIK, London, UK.

2022: Goethe Institute, London, UK.

2021: Kapelica Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

2020: Tate Liverpool, Contemporary Music Festival, Liverpool, UK.

2019: Open CUBE, Graz, Austria.

2019: SM(ART) Symposium, Experimenta, Heilbronn, Germany.

2018: Beyond Festival – Future Design, Karlsruhe, Germany.

2017: Mainly Mozart, Marriott La Jolla, San Diego, California, USA.

2016: Symmetry Festival, Concert Hall of the Collegium Hungaricum Vienna, Vienna, Austria.

2016: Sunset Center, Carmel-by-the-Sea, USA.

2016: Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival, The House, Plymouth, UK.

2015: Mainly Mozart, Hausmann Quartet, The Auditorium at TSRI, La jolla, San Diego, USA.

2015: Festsaal of TU Wien, Vienna, Austria.

2015: Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival, The House, Plymouth, UK.

2015: Das Musikinstrumenten-Museum, Curt Sachs-Saal, Berlin, Germany.

2015: Music Tech Festival - London, LSO St Luke's, London, UK.

2014: Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival, Plymouth, UK.

2013: La Friche la Belle de Mai, Orchestre de la Cité de la Musique de Marseille, Marseille, France.

2013: Difusão Sonora de Música Eletroacústica, Porto Alegre, Brazil.

2013: Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival, Plymouth, UK.

2012: New Resonances Festival, Wilton's Music Hall, London, UK.

2012: Sond'Ar-te Electric Ensemble, Cascais Cultural Centre, Cascais, Portugal.

2012: Jornadas de Música Electroacustica, Montevidéo, Uruguay.

2012: Sound to Sea, St Andrew's Minster, Plymouth, UK.

2011: EarZoom Festival, Cankarjev Dom, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

2011: Música Eletroacústica, Sala dos Sons, Porto Alegre, Brazil. 

2011: Electronica III, BBC Concert Orchestra, Queen Elizabeth Hall (South Bank Centre), London, UK.

2011: Electric Voice Theatre with Frances Lynch, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, UK.

2011: Going North, Luciane Cardassi (piano), Peel Hall, University of Salford, UK.

2011: Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival, Plymouth, UK.

2011: Rolston recital Hall, Luciane Cardassi (piano), Banff, Canada.

2010: Ultraschall Festival, Deutchlandradio Kultur, Sophiensaele, Berlin, Gemany.

Invited Lectures and Keynotes (a selection from the last 15 years):

2024: Stochastic Lab, Berkeley, CA, USA.

2024: Linecheck Festival, Milan, Italy.

2024: Sonar Festival, University Ramon Llull, Barcelona, Spain.

2024: Laboratory of Entangled Space Festival, Riga, Latvia.

2024: Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) - Southwest Branch, Plymouth, UK.

2023: LASER Talk Vienna, Designforum Wien, Vienna, Austria.

2023: Ligeti Center, Open Inauguration Lecture, Hamburg, Germany.

2023: The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Barcelona, Spain.

2023: Technical University of Berlin, Audio Communication Department, Berlin, Germany.

2023: Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music, Riga, Latvia.

2022: Desy – Physics Research Institute, Zeuthen, Germany.

2022: Sounding Qubits, Goethe Institute, London, UK.

2022: Abbey Road Studios, Red Talk, London, UK.

2022: International School of Solid State Physics, Erice, Italy.

2021: QJam Talks, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia.

2021: QHack - Quantum Machine Learning, Toronto, Canada.

2020: Google Quantum AI, Santa Barbara, USA.

2019: Rigetti Computing, Berkeley, CA, USA.

2019: University of Oxford, Department of Computer Science, Oxford, UK.

2018: Beyond Festival – Future Design, ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany.

2017: Royal Institution of Great Britain, Patron Open Evening: The cognitive neuroscience of music, London, UK.

2017: University of Regensburg, Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, Regensbug, Germany.

2017: London LASER 19: Interspecies Creativity, University of the Arts, London, UK.

2017: Mainly Mozart Festival, Mozart & the Mind, San Diego, USA.

2016: NeuroTechX, London, UK.

2016: Tufts University, Department of Music, Medford, MA, USA.

2016: Harvard University, Department of Music, Cambridge, MA, USA.

2016: MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA, USA.

2016: University of the Basque Country, Faculty of Fine Arts, Bilbao, Spain.

2016: Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga Music Conservatoire, Bilbao, Spain.

2016: University of Bordeaux, LaBRI (Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique), Bordeaux, France.

2016: NOTAM (Norwegian Center for Technology in Music and Art), Oslo, Norway.

2016: EG Conference, Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA, USA.

2015: IRCAM / Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France.

2015: Mainly Mozart Festival, Mozart & the Mind, San Diego, USA.

2013: Electronics Department, University of York, York, UK.

2012: Plymouth International Book Festival, Plymouth, UK.

2012: The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), Plymouth University, Plymouth, UK.

2012: Music Department, University of Aberdeen, UK.

2012: Departmant of Musicology, University of Oslo, Norway.

Other jobs :

2019 – Inter_agency Artist-in-Residence, Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustic, University of the Arts, Graz, Austria

2016 – Visiting Professor, Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique (LaBRI), University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France

2010 – Visiting Research Fellow, Staatliches Institut fur Musikforschung (National Institute for Music Research), Berlin, Germany

Winter Semester of 2006–2007 – Edgar Varèse Visiting Professor of Computer Music, Electronic Music Studios, Institute of Communications Research, Technische Universität Berlin (TUB), Berlin, Germany

1998–2003 – Research Scientist, SONY Computer Science Laboratory, Paris, France

2002–2003 – Adjunct Associate Professor of Computer Science, American University of Paris, Paris, France

External examiner for degrees:

• External Examiner for BA Music Computing, Goldsmiths College (2011 – 2016)
• External Examiner for the MA/MSc in Music Technology, Dept of Music & Dept of Electronics, University of York (2007 – 2009)
• External Examiner for the BMus in Music with Computer Sound Design, Dept of Music and Sound Recording, University of Surrey (2007 – 2010)
• External Examiner for the BMus Honours (Tonmeister), Dept of Music and Sound Recordings, University of Surrey (2007 – 2010)
• External Examiner for the MSc Applied Artificial Intelligence, School of Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics, University of Exeter (2006 –2010)
• External Examiner for the MSc Music Information Technology, City University (2006 – 2009)

External examiner for PhD awards: 

• Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia (2024)
• Latvian Academy of Music, Riga (2023)
• University of Huddersfield (2017)
• University of Kent (2017)
• University College Cork (2016)
• University of Reading (2015)
• Sydney Conservatorium of Music (2014)
• University of Adelaide, Australia (2014)
• University of Edinburgh (2013)
• University of Oslo, Norway (2012, 2024)
• University of Surrey (2010)
• University of Essex (2010, 2014)
• University of York (2010)
• Queen's University Belfast (2010)
• Open University (2010, 2013, 2015)
• Birmingham Conservatoire (2009, 2011)
• University of the West of England (2008, 2021)
• University of East Anglia (2008)
• Edinburgh Napier University (2008)
• University College, London (2007, 2010)
• Goldsmiths College (2007)
• Queen Mary University of London (2007, 2010, 2011, 2015)
• Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden (2004)
• Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (2002)
• University of Coruña, Spain (2001)

Patents:

1) Inventor: Eduardo Reck Miranda c/o Sony France S.A., “Morphological categories for voice synthesis”, Europe: EP 1 160 764 A1, Publication 05/12/2001; Japan: P2002-23775A, Publication 04/06/2001.

2) Inventor: Eduardo Reck Miranda c/o Sony France S.A., “Expressivity of Voice Synthesis”, Europe: EP 1 160 766 A1, Publication: 05/12/2001, USA: US 2002/0026315 A1, Publication 28/02/2002.

3) Inventor: Eduardo Reck Miranda c/o Sony France S.A., “Vocal sounds granular synthesis by means of cellular automaton”, Europe: EP 1 160 765 A1, Publication 05/12/2001; Japan: P2002-6873A, Publication 04/06/2001.

4) Inventor: Eduardo Reck Miranda c/o Sony France S.A., “Synthesis of Ultra-Linguistic Utterances”, USA: US 22002/0029145 A1, Publication 07/03/2002.

5) Inventor: Eduardo Reck Miranda c/o Sony France S.A., “Sound characterisation and/or identification based on prosodic listening”, Europe: EP 1 246 164 A1, Publication 02/10/2002; PCT International: WO 02/070744 A2, Publication 10/10/2002.

Conferences organised:

• 1st International Symposium on Quantum Computing and Musical Creativity. Plymouth and Oxford, UK. (2021)
• 11th International Symposium on Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research: Music Mind and Embodiment. Plymouth, UK. (2015)
• 1st International Workshop on Brain-Computer Music Interfacing. Plymouth, UK. (2015)
• Symposiumon Music and Unconventional Computing, part of AISB Convention, University of Exeter, UK (2013). [co-organiser]
• NeuroArts Conference , Plymouth, UK (2011). [co-organiser]
• Brain-Computer Interfaces for Music , Plymouth, UK (2011).
• Music Technology in Education for the Young at Risk of Social Exclusion , Plymouth, UK (2010).
• PRISMA International Conference on Aesthetic Decisions in Computer-Aided Composition, Plymouth, UK (2010).
• Music, Science and the Brain , Plymouth, UK (2008). [co-organiser]
• Music-AL Workshop , Workshop of Music and Artificial Life part of European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL), Lisbon, Portugal (2007).
• 6th European Conference onArtificial Life / 1st Workshop on Artificial Life Models for      Musical Applications , Prague, Czech Republic (2001). [co-organiser]
• XV Annual Congress of the Brazilian Computer Science Society / II Brazilian Symposium on Computer Music , Canela, Brazil (1995).
• World Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education / Artificial Intelligence in Music Education Workshop , Edinburgh, UK (1993). [co-organiser]