A paper presented by MTG researchers (Cárthach Ó Nuanáin, Sergi Jordà & Perfecto Herrera) has received the "best paper award" in the 16th International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, one of the most relevant and influential in the area of music technology, which was held recently in Brisbane, Australia.

The paper "An Interactive Software Instrument for Real-time Rhythmic Concatenative Synthesis" describes an approach for generating and visualising new rhythmic patterns from existing audio in real-time using concatenative synthesis. A graph-based model enables a novel 2-dimensional visualisation and manipulation of new patterns that mimic the rhythmic and timbral character of an existing target seed pattern. A VST audio plugin has been implemented using the reported research and has got positive acceptance not only in Brisbane's presentation but also in other non-academic meetings like Sonar+D and Music Tech Fest.