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.

Median Filters

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A small overview for how median filters work.

Controlling a Synth using a Neural Network

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Video tutorial introducing the FluidMLPRegressor neural network.

Fourier Transform

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Commonly used spectral analysis method

Smoothing Data

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Bundling time by smoothing windows of data.

Removing Outliers with BufStats

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Prevent outliers from negatively impacting BufStats' statistical summary.

For Pedagogues

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A resource for pedagogues wanting to teach FluCoMa

Seeding BufNMF with Bases and Activations

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Initialize non-negative matrix factorization with seeded elements.

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.

FluCoMa Podcast #06: Anna Xambó

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Episode 6 of the FluCoMa Podcast where Jacob Hart talks to musician, developer, researcher and teacher Anna Xambó.

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.

Filling the Shell

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In this article we’ll be looking at the work Leafcutter John did for the project with his piece Line Crossing. We’ll take a detailed look at the workings of the piece, and how he used audio analysis to drive his bespoke audio modules.

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.

Levels of Translation

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In this article we take a look at Ted Moore’s piece quartet, performed by himself and the Switch~ Ensemble, which makes uses of a variety of FluCoMa workflows.

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.

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.