FluCoMa Podcast #19: Helen Bledsoe
Episode 19 of the FluCoMa Podcast where Jacob Hart talks with flutist and composer Helen Bledsoe.
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Helen Bledsoe
The Podcast
Chapters
- Introduction (0:0)
- Getting into music and music technology (1:26)
- Influences in composition (5:37)
- Approaches to collaboration (7:12)
- The sound of instruments (9:21)
- Moving towards computers (12:4)
- Interface design and creative environments (15:47)
- Classification (23:50)
- Sines and onset detection (26:7)
- Human and machine listening (29:40)
- Timbre transfer (32:4)
- Flutes (38:7)
- Composing for flutes (41:32)
- Poetry (44:35)
- Macrostructure (47:47)
- Future work (52:8)
Overview
The FluCoMa Podcast is back with another run of interviews with musicians and creative coders working with machine learning and machine listening. To kick things off we start with Helen Bledsoe who fills all of these profiles. Helen is a flutist, a core member of the renowned Ensemble Musikfabrik, and is also a creator of experimental electronic works. In this episode, we shall learn more about her relationship with technology both as an interpreter and a composer.
Links
Here are the links to some of the things that were discussed during the podcast:
Research Team “CREATIE” at the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp.
Guy Maddin’s Seances and The Forbidden Room.
Performing Luigi Nono’s Flute Music, Helen Bledsoe and Daniel Agi.
Generating Sound & Organizing Time: Thinking with gen, Graham Wakefield and Gregory Taylor.
Convergence Conference in Antwerp.
Rodrigo Constanzo’s SP Tools, and his other work on the FluCoMa Project.
John Bowers and his appearance on the FluCoMa Podcast.
MLP Classifier, MFCC, Melbands, Sine Feature, Onset detection.
Harry Partch’s Cloud Chamber Bowls and Delusion of the Firy:
Neutone and DataMind audio.
Peter Veale playing Qisa.
- Horo Horo To - Homage to Makiko.
Horo Horo To for Bass Koto, Alto Flute and Oboe
NMF.
Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire.
- Partch’s Ring around the moon.