FluCoMa Podcast #13: Jess Aslan

by Jacob Hart

Episode 13 of the FluCoMa Podcast where Jacob Hart talks with creative coder, musician and researcher Jess Aslan.

Jess Aslan

The Podcast

Chapters

1. Introduction (0:0)

2. Getting into electronic music (0:55)

3. Collaboration (4:30)

4. Algorithmic composition (9:30)

5. Creative process and using ML (16:45)

6. Describing longer musical events (21:45)

7. Instrument design (26:37)

8. Violin (31:15)

9. Remixes and relationship with pre-existing music (33:20)

10. Space, sound and gear (35:52)

11. Computer presence (37:28)

12. Teaching FluCoMa technologies (42:22)

13. Future of Jess’s work (47:12)

Overview

In the thirteenth episode of the FluCoMa Podcast, I talk with Dr. Jess Aslan who is a performer, composer and educator currently based at Goldsmiths. We talk about her creative process and her approaches to using machine listening in her work, instrument design and algorithmic composition. We also discuss the role collaboration plays in her practice, and her ideas around presence of technology and computers in musicking.

Links

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

• Goldsmiths, University of London and The University of Edinburgh.

• Lauren Sarah Hayes’ creative work on the FluCoMa Project.

• Owen Green’s creative work on the FluCoMa Project.

• Emma Jane Lloyd.

• Episode of the FluCoMa Podcast with Artemi Maria Gioti.

• Michael Edwards’ Slippery Chicken.

• Auditory Scene Analysis by Albert S. Bregman.

• Jess Aslan, Emma Lloyd, Breaking Boundaries of Role and Hierarchy in Collaborative Music-Making (2017).

• MiniBrute 2 Synthesizer.

• Elektron Machinedrum.

• Regression tutorial.