Franco Caspe

PhD Candidate

Queen Mary University of London

About Me

Engineer, maker, hobbyist guitarist and singer, and PhD candidate at the Centre for Digital Music (Queen Mary University of London) and the Augmented Instruments Lab (Imperial College London). Walking a thin line between AI for audio, real-time systems, and human–computer interaction.

Exploring the space between acoustic instruments and synthesizers, using AI as an analysis tool to capture performance from instrument audio, and as a generation tool for synthetic sound rendering.

Sessions

  • Engineering Practices Break Music Interaction (but Can Also Fix It)
    00:00 - 00:00 UTC | Thursday 30th October 2025 |
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    Have you ever encountered an interactive system of great technical prowess but with lousy interaction capabilities? And what about one with a big AI sticker up front? This situation may be more common than we think. Can we unpack the design process of a technical artefact and understand the people and beliefs that drive it? The engineer's toolbox is a wide array of tools and tricks to get the job done. But we may be getting more than we bargained for: It carries a way to model reality that sometimes attempts to stabilize the messy world we live in, trying […]

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