About Zakiya
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.
Research
Current and Future 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.
Teaching
Research Supervision
Completed PhDs:
- Zakiya Leeming, Conception to Construction: Compositional decision-making informed by theories, patterns and processes in the physical, life, and computer sciences.
Research Outputs
Written Outputs
Research Shorts:Using AI in Contemporary Composition
Leeming, Z., 20 Sept 2024, In: Music Mark.Practice Research/Compositions
HuuM
Leeming, Z. (Composer), 2024HuuM
Leeming, Z. (Composer) & Clarke, E. (Performer), 2024It’s the Algorithm
Leeming, Z. (Composer), 2024Ancoats | music to improve concentration – 7 minutes of ambient sounds for study and relaxation #1
Leeming, Z. (Composer), 2023Eagle in the Ropes
Leeming, Z. (Composer), 2023Meanwhile. In other Dreams…
Leeming, Z. (Composer), 2023Sometimes. In Dreams. I Still…
Leeming, Z. (Composer), 2023Theatre Show with Alissa Finn x Zakiya Leeming
Leeming, Z. (Other), 27 Jun 2023FluCoMa Podcast #05
Leeming, Z. & Melen, C., 23 Jun 2022Professional Activity
Public Presentations and Performance
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)
‘Sounds of Uncertainty’ AI Seminar
Leeming, Z. (Speaker / presenter)
“PRiSM at Turing Institute: Music & Artificial Intelligence Workshop”
Leeming, Z. (Speaker / presenter)
Composing with Learning Machines, Learning Machines with Composition
Leeming, Z. (Speaker / presenter)
“[Intermittent] Cat: Dataset Design #2 Considerations and Observations”
Leeming, Z. (Speaker / presenter)
“Composition Cycles, Hybridisation and Distributed Creativity with Machine Learning”
Leeming, Z. (Speaker / presenter)
“Machine Learning in a Composition Practice”
Leeming, Z. (Speaker / presenter)
Frozen waterfalls, compressed springs: Compositional strategies informed by science, medicine, digital technologies and machine learning
Leeming, Z. (Speaker / presenter)
Sad Dog Eating: Composition strategies, hybridisation and distributed creativity with Machine Learning
Leeming, Z. (Speaker / presenter)
RNCM PRiSM Future Music #3
Howard, E. (Organiser), De Roure, D. (Member of programme committee), du Sautoy, M. (Member of programme committee), Climent, R. (Member of programme committee), Leeming, Z. (Member of programme committee), Akten, M. (Participant), Laidlow, R. (Participant) & Salem, S. (Organiser)