ARME VR demo at Brazilian Carnival on campus
Image: ARME demonstration at the Celebrate Amazonia / Brazilian Carnival activity.ARME was demonstrated as part of the University of Birmingham Brazil Institute’s Celebrate Amazonia Week / Brazilian Carnival activity in February 2025.
The demonstration gave participants a chance to experience the current stage of the project by interacting with musician avatars and trying ARME’s synchronisation model. The activity connected the project with the University’s wider Brazil-facing research and engagement programme, including collaboration with Brazilian visiting fellows.
For ARME, the event was a useful public-facing test of how immersive rehearsal ideas can be explained and experienced outside a specialist music-technology setting. It also helped connect the project’s work on virtual musicians, avatars, and adaptive timing with families, visiting researchers, and the wider campus community.
More context is available from the University of Birmingham Brazil Institute’s Celebrate Amazonia programme.
Max Di Luca
Associate professor
Max Di Luca is the lead PI of the project. He is Associate Professor at the University of Birmingham (UK) in the Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Cognitive Robotics.