FluCoMa Podcast #17: Milad Mardakheh

by Jacob Hart

Episode 17 of the FluCoMa Podcast where Jacob Hart talks with composer, sound-artist, programmer and researcher Milad Mardakheh.

Milad Mardakheh

The Podcast

Chapters

1. Introduction (0:0)

2. Getting into music and background (1:4)

3. Data sonification (9:45)

4. Fixed pieces and improvisation (30:25)

5. Malignant Grains (37:9)

6. Communicating to the audience (44:0)

7. Plotterz (46:28)

8. Malignant Angiogenesis (51:57)

9. Visual development (58:13)

10. Data dialogues (1:3:36)

11. Knowing data (1:11:19)

12. AI listening (1:14:0)

13. Creative coding environments (1:22:25)

Overview

In Episode 17 of the FluCoMa Podcast, we talk with composer, sound-artist, programmer, and researcher Milad Mardakheh. After learning about Milad’s creative process, we delve into an important topic and approach in his work: data sonification. We observe the forms this concepts takes across many of his works, and take a look at some pieces that make use of the FluCoMa tools.

Links

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

• Malignant Grains (2020):

• Malignant Angiogenesis (2021) with Ehsan Hemmati-Faräz:

• Data Dialogues (2022):

• NIME, ICMC, KLG and BEAST.

• Art University of Tehran, Royal Wlesh College of Music & Drama, and The University of Birmingham.

• Barts Cancer Institute.

• PhD Thesis: The Sound of the Hallmarks of Cancer (2021).

• Mardakheh, M. and Wilson, S. (2022). A Strata-based Approach to Discussing Artistic Sonification. Leonardo 55(5).

• Douglas Hanahan and Robert Weinberg.

• Scott Wilson.

• Scot Gresham-Lancaster.

• Carla Scaletti.

• Mark Ballora.

• Lily Asquith.

• James Bradbury’s work using FluCoMa.

• Alva Noto.

• IRCAM’s CataRT.

• 2D Corpus explorer tutorial.

• Simon Smith on the FluCoMa Podcast.

• Ryoji Ikeda and his piece datamatics.