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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

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

Decomposition Overview

Decomposition Overview

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A quick overview of the decomposition tools in the FluCoMa toolkit.

Distribution and Histograms

Distribution and Histograms

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Histograms, distribution functions, and the normal distribution

Smoothing Data

Smoothing Data

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Bundling time by smoothing windows of data.

Dealing with Time

Dealing with Time

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Strategies for encoding and explaining time to a computer.

Comparing Scalers

Comparing Scalers

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Normalize, Standardize, & RobustScale

Classifying Sounds Using a Neural Network

Classifying Sounds Using a Neural Network

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

Outliers

Outliers

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Some thinking about outliers and how to manage them.

Explore

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

Fleeting Networks

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.

FluCoMa Podcast #16 (Part One): John Bowers

FluCoMa Podcast #16 (Part One): John Bowers

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Episode 16 (Part One) of the FluCoMa Podcast where Jacob Hart talks with artist-researcher and creative coder John Bowers.

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.

Fleeting Networks

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.

Event Detection and Improvisation

Event Detection and Improvisation

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In this article we explore Lauren Sarah Hayes' work using some of the FluCoMa tools for her piece Moon via Spirit. We examine how she incorporated some of the slicing tools into her improvisational practice, and how they can provide different approaches to event detection.

FluCoMa Podcast #09: Ben Hackbarth

FluCoMa Podcast #09: Ben Hackbarth

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The ninth episode of the FluCoMa Podcast where Jacob Hart talks with creative coder, composer and creator of AudioGuide Ben Hackbarth.

Exploring the Oboe with FluCoMa

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 #12: Artemi-Maria Gioti

FluCoMa Podcast #12: Artemi-Maria Gioti

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Episode twelve of the FluCoMa podcast where Jacob Hart talks with composer, researcher and creative coder Artemi-Maria Gioti.