Fabio Morreale

 Staff research scientist
Sony AI

Publications

Selected publications

  • Morreale, F., Sharma, M., & Wei, I-C. (2023). Data Collection in Music Generation Training Sets: A Critical Analysis. ISMIR 2023 link 🎖️Universal Music Group Responsible AI award
  • Morreale, F., Bahmanteymouri, E., Burmester, B., Chen, A., & Thorp, M. (2023). The unwitting labourer: extracting humanness in AI training. AI & SOCIETY get access
  • Morreale, F. (2021). Where Does the Buck Stop? Ethical and Political Issues with AI in Music Creation. Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval. link
  • Morreale, F., & Eriksson, M. (2020). My Library Has Just Been Obliterated: Producing New Norms of Use Via Software Update. Proc. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) link 🏅Honourable mention award
  • Morreale, F., Bin, A., McPherson, A., Stapleton, P., & Wanderley, M. (2020). A NIME Of The Times: Developing an Outward-Looking Political Agenda For This Community. Proc. New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) link
  • Morreale, F., McPherson, A., & Wanderley, M. (2018). NIME Identity from the Performer's Perspective. Proc. New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) link
  • Morreale, F., & McPherson, A. (2017). Design for Longevity: Ongoing Use of Instruments from NIME 2010-14. Proc. New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) link

    • All publications

    Book chapters

  • Morreale, F. (2022). Rethinking Music Technology Pedagogy: A New Zealand Focus. in M. Locke, R. Ewing, & T. Locke ed. The Arts in the classroom, Advocacy, Theory and Practice. Teachers and Curriculum.. link
  • Masu, R., & Morreale, F. (2021). Composing by Hacking: Technology Appropriation as a Pedagogical Tool for Electronic Music. in B. Steven ed. Teaching Electronic Music. Routledge.. link
  • McPherson, A., Morreale, F., & Harrison, J. (2019). Musical instruments for novices: Comparing NIME, HCI and crowdfunding approaches. in S. Holland et al., eds. New Directions in Music and HCI. Springer.. link

    • Journal articles

  • Yinghao Ma et al. (2024). Foundation Models for Music: A Survey. arxiv get access
  • Bramah, O., Adams, S., & Morreale, F. (2023). Perceptive vs reflective: spectator interpretation of multimodal artworks. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing get access
  • Morreale, F., Bahmanteymouri, E., Burmester, B., Chen, A., & Thorp, M. (2023). The unwitting labourer: extracting humanness in AI training. AI & SOCIETY get access
  • Blackmore, B., Thorp, M., Chen, A., Morreale, F., Burmester, B., Bahmanteymouri, E., & Bartlett, M. (2023). Hidden humans: exploring perceptions of user-work and training artificial intelligence in Aotearoa New Zealand. KĹŤtuitui New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online get access
  • McMillan, A., & Morreale, F. (2023). Designing Accessible Musical Instruments by Addressing Musician-Instrument Relationships. Frontiers in Computer Science get access
  • Bartlett, M., Morreale, F., & Prabhakar, G. (2022). Analysing Privacy Policies and Terms of Use to understand algorithmic recommendations: the case studies of Tinder and Spotify. Journal of the Royal Sociey of New Zealand get access
  • Morreale, F. (2021). Where Does the Buck Stop? Ethical and Political Issues with AI in Music Creation. Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval. link
  • McMillan, A., & Morreale, F. (2020). Purpose and Well-Being Through Administering Network Performances. Journal of Network Music and Arts. link
  • Morreale, F., Masu, R., & De Angeli, A. (2019). The Influence of Coauthorship in the Interpretation of Multimodal Interfaces. Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing. link
  • Morreale, F., Armitage, J., & McPherson, A. (2018). Effect of Instrument Structure Alterations on Violin Performance. Frontiers in Psychology - Performance Science, 9, 2436. link
  • Morreale, F., & De Angeli, A. (2016). Collaborating With An Autonomous Agent To Generate Affective Music. Computers in Entertainment, 19-29. link
  • Morreale, F., De Angeli, A., Masu, R., Rota, P., & Conci, N. (2013). Collaborative Creativity: The Music Room. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 1187-1199. link

    • Conference papers

  • McMillan, A. & Morreale, F. (2024). Occupational Therapy Methods in the Design of Accessible Musical Instruments. NIME 2024. get access
  • Kamath, P., Morreale, F., Bagaskara, P., Wei, Y., & Nanayakkara, S. (2024). Sound Designer-Generative AI Interactions: Towards Designing Creative Support Tools for Professional Sound Designers. CHI 2024. get access
  • Morreale, F., Sharma, M., & Wei, I-C. (2023). Data Collection in Music Generation Training Sets: A Critical Analysis. ISMIR 2023. link 🎖️Universal Music Group Responsible AI award
  • Masu, R., Morreale, F. & Jensenius, A. (2023). The O in NIME: Reflecting on the Importance of Reusing and Repurposing Old Musical Instruments. NIME 2023. link
  • Gold, N., Masu, R., Chevalier, C., & Morreale, F. (2022). Share Your Values! Community-Driven Embedding of Ethics in Research. CHI 2022. get access
  • Bramah, O., Cheng, X., & Morreale, F. (2021). The Singing Gallery: Combining Music and Static Visual Artworks. Proc. Audio Mostly.
  • Morreale, F. (2020). A Guitar Pick Augmentation for Nuanced Effect Control. The 21st Century Guitar.
  • Morreale, F., & Eriksson, M. (2020). My Library Has Just Been Obliterated: Producing New Norms of Use Via Software Update. Proc. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). link 🏅Honourable mention award
  • Morreale, F., Bin, A., McPherson, A., Stapleton, P., & Wanderley, M. (2020). A NIME Of The Times: Developing an Outward-Looking Political Agenda For This Community. Proc. New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME). link
  • Dallas, L., & Morreale, F. (2020). Effects of Added Vocals and Human Production to AI-composed Music on Listener’s Appreciation. Proc. Joint Conference on AI Music Creativity. link
  • Morreale, F., & Eriksson, M. (2020). New and Improved? On Spotify and the Hidden Surveillance Mechanisms of Software Updated. Proc. 9th Biennial Surveillance and Society conference.
  • Guidi, A., Morreale, F., & McPherson, A. (2020). Design for Auditory Imagery: Altering Instruments to Explore Performer Fluency. Proc. New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME). link
  • Morreale, F., Guidi, A., & McPherson, A. (2019). Magpick: an Augmented Guitar Pick for Nuanced Control. Proc. New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME). link
  • Nordmoen, C., Armitage, J., Morreale, F., Stewart, R., & McPherson, A. (2019). Making Sense of Sensors: Discovery Through Craft Practice with an Open-ended Sensor Material. Proc. Designing Interactive Systems. link
  • Masu, R., Bettega, M., Correia, N.N., RomĂŁo, T., & Morreale, F. (2019). ARCAA: a Framework to Analyse the Artifact Ecology in Computer Music Performance. Proc. ARTECH. link
  • Goudarzi, V., Gioti, A., Lepri, G., & Morreale, F. (2019). Exploring Participatory Sound Art. International Computer Music Conference. link
  • Morreale, F. (2019). An Early-Stage Autobiographical Account of a New Performance Technology. Proc. International Symposium on Performance Science. link
  • Morreale, F., McPherson, A., & Wanderley, M. (2018). NIME Identity from the Performer's Perspective. Proc. New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME). link
  • Jack, R., Harrison, J., Morreale, F., & McPherson, A. (2018). Democratising DMIs: the relationship of expertise and control intimacy. Proc. New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME). link 🏆Best paper award
  • Harrison, J., Jack, R., Morreale, F., & McPherson, A. (2018). When is a Guitar not a Guitar? Cultural Form, Input Modality and Expertise. Proc. New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME).
  • Masu, R., Correia, N., & Morreale, F. (2018). Toward the adoption of design concepts in scoring for Digital Musical Instruments: a case study on affordances and constraints. Proc. International Conference on New Music Concepts. link
  • Morreale, F., & McPherson, A. (2017). Design for Longevity: Ongoing Use of Instruments from NIME 2010-14. Proc. New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME). link
  • Armitage, J., Morreale, F., & McPherson, A. (2017). "The finer the musician, the smaller the details": NIMEcraft under the microscope. Proc. New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME).
  • Morreale, F, Moro, G., Chamberlain, A., Benford, S., & McPherson, A. (2017). Building a maker community around an open hardware platform. Proc. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). link
  • Bin, A., Morreale, F., Bryan-Kinns, N., & McPherson, A. (2017). In-the-moment and beyond: Combining post-hoc and real-time data for the study of audience perception of electronic music performance. Proc. INTERACT. link
  • Masu, R., Conci, A., Core, C., De Angeli, A., & Morreale, F. (2017). Robinflock: a Polyphonic Algorithmic Composer for Interactive Scenarios with Children. Proc. Sound and Music Computing. link
  • Core, C., Conci, A., De Angeli, A., Masu, R., & Morreale, F. (2017). Designing a Musical Playground in the Kindergarten. Proc. British HCI. link
  • Morreale, F. (2017). Divesting Control to the Machine in Digital Art. Proc. EVA London. link
  • Morreale, F., & Masu, R. (2016). Renegotiating Responsibilities in Human-Computer Ensembles. Proc. Colloquio di Informatica Musicale. link
  • Masu, R., Conci, A., Menestrina, Z., Morreale, F., & De Angeli, A. (2016). Beatfield: An Open-Meaning Audiovisual Exploration. Proc. Design of Cooperative Systems. link
  • Bresin, R., Elblaus, L., Frid, E., Favero, F., Annersten, L., Berner, D., & Morreale, F (2016). Sound Forest/Ljudskogen: a Large-Scale String-Based Interactive Musical Instrument. Proc. Sound and Music Computing. link
  • Matassa, A., & Morreale, F. (2016). Multisensory experiences for singers: a first tangible prototype. Proc. Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing. link
  • Matassa, A., & Morreale, F. (2016). Supporting Singers with Tangible and Visual Feedback. Proc. Advanced Visual Interfaces. link
  • Gupta, R., Khomami Abadi, M., Cárdenes CabrĂ©, J.A., Morreale, F., Falk, T.H., & Sebe, N. (2016). A Quality Adaptive Multimodal Affect Recognition System for User-Centric Multimedia Indexing. Proc. International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval. link
  • Morreale, F., & De Angeli, A. (2015). Evaluating Visitor Experiences with Interactive Art. Proc. Italian SIGCHI Chapter. link
  • Morreale, F., Miniukovich, A., & De Angeli, A. (2014). TwitterRadio: Translating Tweets into Music. Proc. Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). link
  • Morreale, F., De Angeli, A., & O'Modhrain S. (2014). Musical Interface Design : An Experience-oriented Framework. Proc. New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME). link
  • Morreale, F., Chietera, M. T., & De Angeli, A. (2014). Prototyping Interactive Lighting for a Musical Installation. Proc. Experiencing Light. link
  • Morreale, F., Masu, R., & De Angeli, A. (2013). Robin: An Algorithmic Composer For Interactive Scenarios. Proc. Sound and Music Computing. link
  • Morreale, F., Masu, R., De Angeli, A., & Rota, P. (2013). The Music Room. Proc. Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). link
  • Morreale, F., Masu, R., De Angeli, A., & Fava, P. (2013). The effect of expertise in evaluating emotions in music. Proc. International Conference on Music & Emotion. link
  • Fontana, F., Morreale, F., Regia-Corte, T., LĂ©cuyer, A., & Marchal, M. (2011). Auditory recognition of floor surfaces by temporal and spectral cues of walking. Proc. International Conference on Auditory Display. link

    • Convened panels, workshops, seminars

  • Morreale, F., Bahmanteymouri,E., Burmester, B. & Pasquinelli, M. (2023). Extracting Humanness, Exploiting Labour: The Inhumane Face of Artificial Intelligence. STS Italia. link
  • Morreale, F., Fehrer, J., Lythberg, B., & Mullen, M. (2021). NFT: Truths, myths & futures of non-fungible tokens in the arts. Webinar. link
  • Morreale, F., & Eriksson, M. (2021). Effect of dataveillance on artistic and cultural production: Exploiting user data to shape user preferences and create new content. STS Italia. link
  • Martin, C., Morreale, F., Wallace, B., & Scurto, H. (2021). Critical Perspectives on AI/ML in Musical interfaces . NIME.
  • Morreale, F., Gold, N., Chevalier, C., & Masu, R. (2021). Ethical guidelines for NIME research. NIME.
  • Martin, C., Morreale, F., Wallace, B., & Scurto, H. (2020). Critical Perspectives on AI/ML in Musical interfaces . NIME.
  • Armitage, J., Bin, A., Jack, R., McPherson, A., & Morreale, F. (2017). NIMEcraft Workshop: Exploring the Subtleties of Digital Lutherie . NIME Conference. link

    • Workshop papers

  • McPherson, A., Morreale, F., & Guidi, A. (2019). Designing Creative Tensions between Concept and Embodied Practice. CHI 2019 workshop "Doing Things with Research through Design". link
  • McPherson, A., & Morreale, F. (2017). Technology and community in toolkits for musical interface design. CHI Workshop on HCI.tools. link
  • Morreale, F., Masu, R., & McPherson, A. (2017). Constraining control in mixed-initiative musical interfaces. CHI Workshop on Mixed-Initiative Creative Interfaces. link
  • Morreale, F. (2015). Designing Human-Machine Ensembles. CHI Workshop on Collaborating with Intelligent Machines. link
  • Conci, A., Core, C., & Morreale, F. (2015). Weighting Play and Learning in Interaction. CHItaly Workshop on PALX Player and Learner Experience. link
  • Morreale, F., De Angeli, A., & O'Modhrain S. (2014). Observations on Visitors’ Behaviour in The Music Room. NIME Workshop Practice-Based Research. link
  • Morreale, F., Masu, R., & De Angeli, A. (2014). Interacting With Algorithmic Music Through Semantic Descriptors. IAS Workshop on Computer and Robotic Systems for Automatic Music Performance. link
  • Morreale, F., De Angeli, A., & Masu, R. (2012). Interfaces for Musical Creativity for Non-Experts. DIS Workshop on Designing Performative Interactions in Public Spaces. link

    • Phd thesis

  • Morreale, F. (2015). Designing New Experiences of Music Making. University of Trento. Download PDF