FluCoMa Podcast #01: Freida Abtan

by Jacob Hart

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

Freida Abtan

The Podcast

Chapters

1. Introduction (0:0)

2. Getting into the world of audiovisual composition (1:40)

3. Describing Freida's practice (5:20)

4. Perspective on reactive audio design and gesture (9:3)

5. Using FluCoMa-related technologies (14:3)

6. Using systems at different scales (25:58)

7. Learning and teaching technologies (28:22)

8. What are computational ideas? (44:53)

Overview

In this first episode of the FluCoMa podcast I talk to Dr. Freida Abtan. We talk about some of the projects she has worked on, and her approach to creative programming in general. She discusses how computational approaches can be found at the heart of her artistic practice, and what the concept of reactive audio design means for her. As well as being an artist, Freida is also an educator, and we discuss her ideas around the teaching, dissemination and learning of technologies such as those found in the FluCoMa tools.

Links

Here are the links to some of the things that were discussed during the podcast:

• Carnegie Mellon Univserity.

• Goldsmiths Univserity of London: Music, Computing and Technology program.

• Subtle Movements (2007)

• Topological Media Lab: Concordia University. Founded by Sha Xin Wei.

• The WYSIWYG Project.

• Marcelo Wanderley, McGill University.

• Kevin Austin, Concordia University.

• Jean Piché, Université de Montreal.

• Fear of Flight (2012)

• Rebecca Fiebrink, Goldsmiths Univserity of London.

• Wekinator.

• IRCAM’s Gesture Follower.

• Baptiste Caramiaux, GVF: Gesture Variation Follower.

• Nurse With Wound.