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.

For Pedagogues

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A resource for pedagogues wanting to teach FluCoMa

Neural Network Parameters

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A guide on using the parameters of and MLP.

Why Scale? Distance as Similarity

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The affects of scaling on measures of similarity

Outliers

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Some thinking about outliers and how to manage them.

Batch Processing with FluCoMa

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Batch processing corpora with the Fluid Corpus Manipulation toolkit.

Refining Pitch Analysis

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Using statistics to refine the analysis of pitch content.

Weighting Stats

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Apply weights to BufStats

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.

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.

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.

Sound Into Sound

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In this article, we take a look at the work Rodrigo Constanzo did for the project and explore how he used the FluCoMa tools for his corpus-based music making.

NMF Piano Tracker for Symbolic Audio Effects

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In this article, we’ll take a look at some of the work that Hans Tutschku did using the FluCoMa tools, notably the conception of a piano tracker that uses NMF and how this allows him to perform symbolic operations on audio.

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.

FluCoMa Podcast #01: Freida Abtan

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The first episode of the FluCoMa Podcast where Jacob Hart talks with creative coder and educator Freida Abtan.

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.