Researcher, engineer, composer, viola player, musical instrument designer.
Professor of Design Engineering and Music, Imperial College London. Leader of the Augmented Instruments Laboratory (http://instrumentslab.org), a research lab jointly affiliated between Imperial and QMUL. Co-founder and director of Bela (http://bela.io), an open-source hardware company creating ultra-low-latency, richly interactive maker tools.
| Lab website | http://instrumentslab.org |
| Personal website | http://andrewmcpherson.org |
| Bluesky | https://bsky.app/profile/apmcpherson.bsky.social |
| https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewpmcpherson/ |
Monday 16 March, 2pm UK: Kathy Hinde presents "Magnetic sensing as inspiration for an installation and performance" as part of the Augmented Instruments Lab Open Seminars series.
Hybrid in-person at Imperial College London (DM for location) and online: https://www.youtube.com/live/3Yv4_33UaGk
The latest Trails preview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdm2vA_8x8w
Launching soon! More details at bela.io/trails
Trails is nearly here! Here's a preview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdNwFCekc2Y
Join the (low-traffic) Bela mailing list to be the first to know when it launches: https://bela.io/products/trails/
Bela Gem is here: this is the biggest upgrade to the Bela embedded audio platform in a decade, with a quad-core processor (PocketBeagle 2), up to 10 channels of audio I/O, and a completely new self-hosted IDE.
We've delivered all the boards to our Crowd Supply backers and now it's available in the Bela shop. New orders should ship around 1 March.
Bela Gem systems are tiny, embeddable, yet very powerful Linux systems for creating applications with interactive sensors and sound. They have been designed for ultra-low latency audio and sensor processing, and power musical applications, instruments, art projects, and commercial products all over the world.
RE: https://hci.social/@amcpherson/115747479888275891
One week left to apply to this studentship! It's fully funded (covers tuition and stipend). Open to UK home student applicants only, due to funder rules.
Audio effects are used pervasively in music performance and production, and the creation of new digital audio tools is a significant industry. They are also commonly used in game production, broadcasting, and film and television. This book is intended as an educational textbook on audio effects, with relevance to audio signal processing, music informatics, sound engineering, and related topics. It provides fundamental background information on digital signal processing, focusing on audio-specifi
I'm recruiting a PhD student for autumn 2026 on a project on accessibility in musical instrument design, in partnership with disability arts charities OHMI and Drake Music.
Application deadline 15 February 2026. More info and contact details: https://liss-dtp.ac.uk/project/instrument-design-by-and-for-disabled-musicians-the-roles-of-technical-discourse-and-vernacular-creativity/
PhD project summary: An estimated 16 million people in the UK live with a disability (DWP statistics 2023), of which 48% have mobility impairments and 25% have impaired dexterity. Traditional […]
