FluCoMa Podcast #19: Helen Bledsoe

by Jacob Hart

Episode 19 of the FluCoMa Podcast where Jacob Hart talks with flutist and composer Helen Bledsoe.

Helen Bledsoe

The Podcast

Chapters

1. Introduction (0:0)

2. Getting into music and music technology (1:26)

3. Influences in composition (5:37)

4. Approaches to collaboration (7:12)

5. The sound of instruments (9:21)

6. Moving towards computers (12:4)

7. Interface design and creative environments (15:47)

8. Classification (23:50)

9. Sines and onset detection (26:7)

10. Human and machine listening (29:40)

11. Timbre transfer (32:4)

12. Flutes (38:7)

13. Composing for flutes (41:32)

14. Poetry (44:35)

15. Macrostructure (47:47)

16. 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:

• Ensemble Musikfabrik.

• Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music, Riga.

• Lucerne Festival Academy.

• Research Team “CREATIE” at the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp.

• Conservatorium van Amsterdam.

• Guy Maddin’s Seances and The Forbidden Room.

• Alexey Lapin.

• GaragBand, Mixcraft, Caustic, Surge.

• Harry Partch, Bitter Music.

• Stockhausen’s Rotary Wind Quintet.

• Georges Aperghis and Rebecca Saunders.

• Luigi Nono and Robarto Fabbriciani.

• Performing Luigi Nono’s Flute Music, Helen Bledsoe and Daniel Agi.

• Melvyn Poore, Ableton, Max for Live.

• Stanford’s Kadenze. Udemy.

• Music Hackspace and Umut Eldem.

• AZ Max for Live Devices.

• Generating Sound & Organizing Time: Thinking with gen, Graham Wakefield and Gregory Taylor.

• Convergence Conference in Antwerp.

• nn~ by ACIDS.

• Rodrigo Constanzo’s SP Tools, and his other work on the FluCoMa Project.

• Isotonik Studios.

• John Bowers and his appearance on the FluCoMa Podcast.

• FluCoMa forum.

• MLP Classifier, MFCC, Melbands, Sine Feature, Onset detection.

• Harry Partch’s Cloud Chamber Bowls and Delusion of the Firy:

• Neutone and DataMind audio.

• Sora from OpenAI.

• Peter Veale playing Qisa.

• Horo Horo To - Homage to Makiko.

• NMF.

• Robert Dick.

• Sara Cubarsi.

• Advice for composers.

• Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire.

• Partch’s Ring around the moon.

• Anne Sexton.

• Visual Studio, JUCE, RNBO.