Personal profile
Person Introduction
Composer Zakiya Leeming is currently Artist and Producer in Residence at the Royal Northern College of Music's Centre for Practice & Research in Science & Music (PRiSM). Having devised and directed a number of projects with health data scientists and doctors, Leeming is currently working with Oxford University Sidney Truelove Professor Paul Klenerman on a collaboration exploring immune memory & music, funded by The Wellcome Trust.
Current Research
Thanks for the Memories: Science and Music Project in Manchester and Oxford
New Opera: Collaboration with Professor Paul Klenerman, for Rosie Middleton and RNCM performers.
Onomatopoedia: Ongoing collaborative AI, voice & composition project with voice artist Emma Clarke.
Education/Academic qualification
PhD, Conception to Construction: Compositional decision-making informed by theories, patterns and processes in the physical, life, and computer sciences.Conception to Construction: Compositional decision-making informed by theories, patterns and processes in the physical, life, and computer sciences.
2014 → 2022
Award Date: 1 Jan 2022
Master, Composition
2010 → 2012
Award Date: 1 Jan 2012
Bachelor, Contemporary Arts (Music) with Honours , University of Tasmania
Award Date: 1 Jan 2005
Bachelor, Bachelor of Contemporary Arts (Music) , University of Tasmania
2002 → 2004
Award Date: 1 Jan 2004
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HuuM
Leeming, Z. (Composer) & Clarke, E. (Performer), 2024Research output: Non-textual form › (Research) Performance
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It’s the Algorithm
Leeming, Z. (Composer), 2024Research output: Non-textual form › Digital or Visual Products
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Research Shorts:Using AI in Contemporary Composition
Leeming, Z., 20 Sept 2024, In: Music Mark.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Ancoats | music to improve concentration – 7 minutes of ambient sounds for study and relaxation #1
Leeming, Z. (Composer), 2023Research output: Non-textual form › Composition
Activities
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International Contemporary Ensemble and PRiSM: Music, AI, and Co-creation; New York
Howard, E. (Invited speaker), Salem, S. (Invited speaker), De Roure, D. (Invited speaker), Ma, B. (Invited speaker), Leeming, Z. (Invited speaker), Fan, H. (Invited speaker), Steinberg, M. (Invited speaker) & Laidlow, R. (Invited speaker)
16 May 2024Activity: Talk, presentation, and live performance › Premiere / performance / showcase of practice-based output
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‘Sounds of Uncertainty’ AI Seminar
Leeming, Z. (Speaker / presenter)
22 Feb 2024 → 23 Feb 2024Activity: Talk, presentation, and live performance › Oral presentation
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“PRiSM at Turing Institute: Music & Artificial Intelligence Workshop”
Leeming, Z. (Speaker / presenter)
Mar 2023Activity: Talk, presentation, and live performance › Oral presentation
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Composing with Learning Machines, Learning Machines with Composition
Leeming, Z. (Speaker / presenter)
4 Sept 2022 → 7 Sept 2022Activity: Talk, presentation, and live performance › Oral presentation
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“[Intermittent] Cat: Dataset Design #2 Considerations and Observations”
Leeming, Z. (Speaker / presenter)
27 Jun 2022 → 28 Jun 2022Activity: Talk, presentation, and live performance › Oral presentation
Prizes
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London Philharmonic Orchestra Young Composer Programme 2022-2023
Leeming, Z. (Recipient), 2022
Prize: Other distinction
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Royal Philharmonic Society’s Composer Programme 2021-22
Leeming, Z. (Recipient), 2021
Prize: Other distinction
Thesis
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Conception to Construction: Compositional decision-making informed by theories, patterns and processes in the physical, life, and computer sciences.
Leeming, Z. (Author), Horne, D. (Supervisor) & Howard, E. (Supervisor), 2022Student thesis: Doctoral thesis