Raul Masu

External supervisor

Raul Masu
Dip. di Nuove tecnologie e linguaggi musicali , Conservatorio di Trento

Interessi di ricerca

Con un dottorato in Digital Media (Nova University of Lisbon, University of Porto e University of Texas at Austin), la sua attività intreccia ricerca artistica e scientifica focalizzandosi sui sistemi musicali interattivi.

Ha coautorato oltre 60 articoli presentati su rivista, conferenza o libri accademici. Come compositore ha lavorato su vari progetti musicali e interattivi e tra cui spiccano una serie di lavori all’interno del progetto europeo Moving Digits (co-funded by Creative Europe – Culture Sub-programme), musei quali Witte de With, nei concerti o installazioni di conferenze (NIME, Sound and Music Computing, Audio Mostly, Tangible and Embodied Interaction), festival e altre venue musicali (istituto italiano di cultura Tokyo, Musiques Demesurees), ha fatto da advisor a un progetto presentato ad Ars Elettronica.

• Sustainability of interactive art (with a focus on music). E.g.:
  • Masu, R., Morreale, F., & Jensenius, A. R. (2023). The o in nime: Reflecting on the importance of reusing and repurposing old musical instruments. In Proceedings of the international conference on new interfaces for musical expression (pp. 106-115).
• Cultural diversity and electronic music. E.g.:
  • Kuzmin, I., Ma, Z., & Masu, R. (2024). Toward Musical Cosmotechnics: the case of zhu nao 竹脑—a bamboo-based instrument. In Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (pp. 582-590).
• Accessibility and inclusivity in interaction design (with a focus on music interaction). E.g.:
  • Zhang, Shumeng, et al. (2025) “Accessibility and Social Inclusivity: A Literature Review of Music Technology for Blind and Low Vision People.” Accepted in Proceedings of the 27th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility 2025 (link to preprint)
• Collaborative Interactive Music. E.g.:
  • Masu, R., Bettega, M., Correia, N. N., & Romão, T. (2023). Investigating performance ecologies using screen scores: a case study. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 27(5), 1887-1907.
• Embodied Interaction. E.g.:

Masu, R., Correia, N. N., Jurgens, S., Feitsch, J., & Romão, T. (2020, September). Designing interactive sonic artefacts for dance performance: an ecological approach. In Proceedings of the 15th International Audio Mostly Conference (pp. 122-129).

International affiliations:

Adjunct Assistant Professor di Computational Media and Arts alla Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)

Head of the environmental committee for the New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) community