Tim Sayer is currently the programme leader for the Live Music degree programme and a senior lecturer in new media, the psychology of sound and sound design for media at UCP Marjon, Plymouth. Tim is also a multimedia software developer and works as a freelance trumpet player in the UK and across Europe playing with the likes of the Levellers, Eddie Floyd, Joe Lois Walker, Ottis Grand and Pee Wee Ellis. Whilst undertaking his PhD, he presented work at the ICA and the Science Museum in London, University of California Santa Barbara and the Sonic Arts Research Centre at Queens University Belfast. He has developed interfaces for various performances at Dartington as well the ‘Night Walking’ conference at the South Bank, London and the Contemporary Music Festival in Plymouth.  His research interests centre around human computer interface design in the context of improvised musical performance, exploring the perceptual parameter space that exists between performer and technology as a means of investigating cognitive/behavioural mappings.  Tim has written a number of articles relating to his research including Digital Creativity (Vol 12 No1) and Contemporary Music Review (Vol 25 Part1+2) and most recently presented work at Avanca film festival, Portugal and The Forum for Innovation in Music Production and Composition, Leeds College of Music in 2011.