Welcome to the Fluid Corpus Manipulation Learn Platform!

The Fluid Corpus Manipulation project (FluCoMa) instigates new musical ways of exploiting ever-growing banks of sound and gestures within the digital composition process, by bringing breakthroughs of signal decomposition DSP and machine learning to the toolset of techno-fluent computer composers, creative coders and digital artists.

Learn

Articles discussing workflows and ways of thinking about FluCoMa

2D Corpus Exploring

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A video tutorial guiding that teaches you how to build a two-dimensional corpus exploration patch in Max.

Controlling a Synth using a Neural Network

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Video tutorial introducing the FluidMLPRegressor neural network.

Audio Decomposition using BufNMF

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Decompose an audio buffer into component parts using non-negative matrix factorisation.

Fourier Transform

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Commonly used spectral analysis method

Neural Network Parameters

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A guide on using the parameters of and MLP.

Classifying Sounds Using a Neural Network

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This video tutorial guides you through building a flexible sound classifier.

Seeding BufNMF with Bases and Activations

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Initialize non-negative matrix factorization with seeded elements.

Get Started

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Some suggestions for getting started exploring FluCoMa

Explore

Podcasts with the community and deep dives into the work done with FluCoMa

Fleeting Networks

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In this article we take a look at some of the processes behind Pierre Alexandre Tremblay’s piece Newsfeed and explore some of the principles behind his creative practice and the FluCoMa project.

Ecosystemic Interferences

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In this article we look at the improvised performance practice of Raw Green Rust, and how they use the FluCoMa tools to hijack each other’s outputs in Ableton Live and visualise their performance in real time using Unity.

FluCoMa Podcast #05: Zakiya Leeming and Christopher Melen

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The fifth episode of the FluCoMa podcast where Jacob Hart talks to PRiSM’s Zakiya Leeming and Christopher Melen.

FluCoMa Podcast #10: Thor Magnusson

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Episode ten of the FluCoMa podcast where Jacob Hart talks with musicologist, creative coder and educator Thor Magnusson.

FluCoMa Podcast #07: Bálint Laczkó

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Episode 7 of the FluCoMa Podcast where Jacob Hart talks to creative coder and composer Bálint Laczkó about his latest piece The Hum.

FluCoMa Podcast #08: Darlene Castro Ortiz

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Episode 8 of the FluCoMa Podcast where Jacob Hart talks with composer and creative coder Darlene Castro Ortiz.

Exploring the Oboe with FluCoMa

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In this article, we take a look at the work that Alex Harker did for the project, and how, in his piece Drift Shadow, he used the FluCoMa tools to explore the multiphonic possibilities of the oboe.

Using FluCoMa to Make a Shared Instrument

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In this article we explore the work of Alice Eldridge and Chris Kiefer and how they used the FluCoMa tools to augment their Feedback Cello to create a shared, adaptive instrument.