I am a PhD researcher in AI & Music at the Centre for Digital Music at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL). My research, supervised by Mathieu Barthet and Andrew McPherson, is located at the intersection of artificial intelligence, mixed reality technology and human-computer interaction.
I hold a BSc in Media Informatics and Visual Computing from the Vienna University of Technology and an MSc in Sound and Music Computing from QMUL.

Drop me a message at max.graf@qmul.ac.uk.


News

  • ADC 2024

    14 November 2024

    Just got back from ADC 2024. It was great meeting this lovely group of people and chatting about everything from nerdy low-level high-performance audio in C++ to musical XR applications 🤟

  • AWE EU 2024

    23 October 2024

    I will be attending AWE EU 2024 in Vienna, looking forward to meeting more people in the XR industry!

  • Innovate UK ICURe Explore Grant

    05 September 2024

    Very excited to join the September 2024 ICURe Explore programme. For the next three months I will explore collaborations and future directions for Netz, my XR musical instrument.

  • AES AI & The Musician 2024

    06 June 2024

    Our paper When XR Meets AI: Integrating Interactive Machine Learning with an XR Musical Instrument was published at the 1st AES International Symposium on AI and the Musician at Berklee College of Music in Boston!

  • Innovate UK ICURe Discover

    20 February 2024

    I got a place on the February 2024 ICURe Discover programme for my XR instrument Netz.

  • NAMM 2024

    25 January 2024

    Had a great time at the 2024 NAMM show in Anaheim, CA! Nice meeting so many people in music tech and connecting with our friends at the MIDI association.

  • CMMR 2023

    13 November 2023

    Going to Tokyo! Our paper Combining Vision and EMG-Based Hand Tracking for Extended Reality Musical Instruments was published at the 16th International Symposium on Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research and nominated for the best paper award 🎉.

  • 2023 MIDI Innovation Awards

    16 September 2023

    Today Netz, my XR musical instrument, won the MIDI Innovation Awards in the category Software Prototypes and Non-Commercial Products!

  • VRST 2023

    10 September 2023

    Our paper Reducing Sensing Errors in a Mixed Reality Musical Instrument was published at the 29th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology. Going to present it in Christchurch, NZ!

  • Paper accepted at NIME 2022

    01 January 2022

    My paper Mixed Reality Musical Interface: Exploring Ergonomics and Adaptive Hand Pose Recognition for Gestural Control was accepted for NIME 2022!

  • Part of Master's Thesis Published at AES 2021

    18 June 2021

    We published a paper adjacent to my master’s thesis at QMUL titled An Audio-Driven System for Real-Time Music Visualisation at the 2021 AES International Conference on Audio for Virtual and Augmented Reality.