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

2D Corpus Exploring

tutorial

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

Median Filters

Median Filters

article

A small overview for how median filters work.

Get Started

Get Started

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Some suggestions for getting started exploring FluCoMa

For Pedagogues

For Pedagogues

article

A resource for pedagogues wanting to teach FluCoMa
Weighting Stats

Weighting Stats

tutorial

Apply weights to BufStats

Audio Decomposition using BufNMF

Audio Decomposition using BufNMF

article

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

Fourier Transform

Fourier Transform

article

Commonly used spectral analysis method

Refining Pitch Analysis

Refining Pitch Analysis

tutorial

Using statistics to refine the analysis of pitch content.

Explore

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

Fleeting Networks

Fleeting Networks

article

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.

FluCoMa Podcast #17: Milad Mardakheh

FluCoMa Podcast #17: Milad Mardakheh

podcast

Episode 17 of the FluCoMa Podcast where Jacob Hart talks with composer, sound-artist, programmer and researcher Milad Mardakheh.

Blank Slate Confrontation

Blank Slate Confrontation

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In this article we take a look at James Bradbury’s creative work and his bespoke way of using the FluCoMa command line tools within his own Python environment and Reaper.

FluCoMa Podcast #19: Helen Bledsoe

FluCoMa Podcast #19: Helen Bledsoe

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Episode 19 of the FluCoMa Podcast where Jacob Hart talks with flutist and composer Helen Bledsoe.

Interface Design with FluCoMa

Interface Design with FluCoMa

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In this article, we take a look at some of the work that Sam Pluta did for the project. We look at his journey into exploring the possibilities of MLP regression, and how it has become an integral part of his practice.

Data-Driven Musical Interfaces & Live-Coding with FluCoMa

Data-Driven Musical Interfaces & Live-Coding with FluCoMa

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In this article we shall be exploring some of the creative work of one of FluCoMa's core developers Gerard Roma. We shall take a look at his live-coding practice that revolves around visualisations and interfaces built using the FluCoMa tools.

FluCoMa Podcast #18: Bora Yoon and Davis Polito

FluCoMa Podcast #18: Bora Yoon and Davis Polito

podcast

Episode 18 of the FluCoMa Podcast in which Jacob Hart tallks to PLOrk’s Bora Yoon and Davis Polito.

FluCoMa Podcast #24: Patrick Hartono

FluCoMa Podcast #24: Patrick Hartono

podcast

Episode 24 of the FluCoMa Podcast where Jacob Hart talks with composer, audiovisual artist and music researcher Patrick Hartono.