Welcome to The_ Coding_ Choir

The_Coding_Choir is Dr. Jemily Rime's research group / website. Its focus lies at the intersection of music computing, audio production, and storytelling. The work conducted follows a human-centered approach, integrating methods such as participatory design or co-creation to audio research. Rime is currently a professor of electronic and produced music at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and a research fellow at ARU's StoryLab.

Research

News

  • _GSMD Students presented compositions and a procedural piece for the DIALOGUE Network opening conference.

  • _Rime spoke at ARU Music Production conference Echoes of the future about AI and music making.

  • _Rime took part in a Stargazing: the future, a BBC SO Total Immersion event at the Barbican, a conversation on the future of electronic music with Tom Service and Mike Roberts.

  • _Is using LLMs in participatory design tasks a good idea? This new article looks at this question via a case study. This research was awarded a best paper award at CHIRA 2024.

  • _The Navigator is an online platform hosting 4 audio documentaries built in collaboration with the people of the Kite area in Cambridge. It was presented at the Kite Festival, as part of an oral history archival project, to highlight the hidden stories of this neighborhood.

  • _2024-2025 Student Live Coding Demos


Demo Spotlight

Publications, talks, and demos

  • _Tsenova, Violeta*, Jemily Rime*, Christopher Nightingale, Lesley Johnson, and Fabrizio Galeazzi. "Immersive Antarctica : A Frozen Night - User Agency in VR Historical Narratives", DIS 25

  • _Tsenova, Violeta, Heather Thomas, Jemily Rime, Fabrizio Galeazzi. "Let's Go Fly The Kite", Distributed Design Vol III, 2025.

  • _Rime, Jemily. "'Call me' controlling – what it takes for a singer to feel comfortable using AI voice cloning creatively Creative Digital Dynamics II: Symposium on AI & Digital Innovations for Voice and Vocal Music, 2025.

  • _Spoke at Echoes of the future about AI and music making.

  • _ Spoke at Stargazing: the future, BBC SO Total Immersion: Symphonic Electronics, 2025.

  • _Rime, Jemily. "Interviewing ChatGPT-Generated Personas to Inform Design Decisions." In International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications, pp. 82-97. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024.

  • _Rime, Jemily. "Immersive and Personalised Podcasting Using AI-driven Audio Production Tools." PhD diss., University of York, 2024

  • _Rime, Jemily, Alan Archer-Boyd, and Tom Collins. "How will you pod? Implications of creators’ perspectives for designing innovative podcasting tools." ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications 20, no. 3 (2023): 1-25

  • _Rime, Jemily, Jon Francombe, and Tom Collins. "How do you pod? A study revealing the archetypal podcast production workflow." In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences, pp. 11-18. 2022

  • _Rime, Jemily, Chris Pike, and Tom Collins. "What is a podcast? Considering innovations in podcasting through the six-tensions framework." Convergence 28, no. 5 (2022): 1260-1282.

  • _Radio TechCon 2023 Presentation: "Podcasting, the next chapter"

  • _Sounds Amazing 2023 Presentation:"Podcasting, the next chapter - introducing pod-CLIPR (Podcast Chapter Localisation Through Intelligent Pattern recognition."

  • _BEYOND 2022 Poster Presentation : "Immersive and Personalised Podcasting Using AI-driven Audio Production Tools."


Featured Demos

Feb 2025
Jemily Rime

The Navigator

A web platform hosting a series of podcasts about the hidden stories of a Cambridge neighborhood.

Oct 2023
Jemily Rime

Resonance choir

A web platform hosting a series of podcasts about the hidden stories of a Cambridge neighborhood.

Apr 2025
Jemily Rime and students

Sounds of Collapse

A continuous piece of audio co-created from layers made out of students work, featuring works from Frankie Hewett, Taha Kagzi, Odysseas Panzatis, Emir Okmen, Eleanor Lee, and Helen Oh.
This is a demo, a live site where the piece plays forever will be available shortly.

Featured Student Work

Dec 2024
Tom Alchin

Kalimba Techno

"I used Sonic PI's programming language to create a generative piece, maintaining the same chord structure, however each instrument varying the rhythm and accenting of said chords. Furthermore, the volume of each instrument is randomized, creating a random structure for each seed. Hope you enjoy!"

April 2025
Eleanor Lee

I Apologise To The Birds

I Apologise to the Birds reflects on the paradoxes inherent in the ways humans engage with extinction. Acts of documentation, archiving, and preservation attempt to retain traces of lost species, yet are inevitably entangled with the histories of disappearance that human actions have contributed to. Positioned between an apology and a critical reflection, the work acknowledges the ethical and representational complexities of translating absence into a sensory experience. Through the sonification of natural history records, it questions whether such gestures serve as acts of remembrance or become forms of control. It also asks whether sound can facilitate an encounter with what no longer exists, or whether it merely intensifies the distance between presence and absence. In doing so, the work contemplates how loss is mediated, felt, and ultimately remembered within contemporary artistic practice.

Apr 2025
Emir Okmen

As Long As We Lay No Claim

The piece is about how nature can heal itself when we don't interfere in its own way of work, and yet we can not refrain ourselves from doing it and lay claim on nature, which inevitably won't end up well. You can hear the animals crying and running around in fear in the piece as things get worse.

Apr 2025
Helen Oh

The Fish's dance

This piece invites listeners into the life of a fish, drifting through an underwater realm untouched by human hands. Beneath the surface lies a world scarcely understood by humans, where time flows at its own rhythm. Through the use of various water-like sounds and woodwinds, the music evokes the quiet yet diverse existence of underwater life. It is a journey between stillness and vitality, a reminder of the mystery and beauty found in world beyond our reach.

Get in touch

We'd love to hear from you!
jemily.rime@aru.ac.uk // jemily.rime@gsmd.ac.uk

Archive

Past news and projects

AI + Voice conference

"Call Me" controlling - what it takes for a singer to feel comfortable with using voice cloning creatively

Interviewing ChatGPT-Generated Personas to Inform Design Decisions

Best Paper Award at CHIRA 24

Radio Tech Con 23

Modular podcasting tool presentation at Radio Tech Con

BBC Sounds Amazing 23

Insights on automatic chapterisation presentation at BBC Sounds Amazing

Collaboration with Creators (Study)

The experiment's description can be seen here:

Collaboration with Creators Call

As seen in Podnews, this study is currently looking for participants

Video Podcasting (interview)

Article by Bénédicte Gilles about the future of podcasting and video podcasting

Resonance Choir

Resonance Choir: The Renaissance madrigal meets spatial audio

AI Song Contest 2021

The Elephants and The's entry for the AI Song Contest.

AI Song Contest 2022

G-Zone and rebel algorithms' entry for the AI Song Contest.

BEYOND 2022

Research poster and presentation

Outreach

The Coding Choir's outreach.

Music. Sound. Stories. Computing.

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