FluCoMa Podcast #06: Anna Xambó

by Jacob Hart

Episode 6 of the FluCoMa Podcast where Jacob Hart talks to musician, developer, researcher and teacher Anna Xambó.

Anna Xambó

The Podcast

Chapters

1. Introduction (0:0)

2. Anna introduces herself and her work (2:40)

3. MIRLCAuto project presentation (6:27)

4. Approach to live-coding (12:12)

5. Legibility, agency and negotiability in performance (15:15)

6. Show us your screens! (20:43)

7. General framework for visualisation of sound collections in musical interfaces (25:13)

8. Collections of sounds as an aesthetic object (29:18)

9. Spectral modeling synthesis (32:18)

10. Approach to diffusion (36:29)

11. Online interfaces (39:23)

12. Audience-centric approach (42:40)

13. Music technology post-pandemic (48:44)

Overview

In this episode of the FluCoMa Podcast I talk with Dr. Anna Xambó who is currently a senior lecturer in Music and Audio Technology at the Leicester Media School at De Montfort University; and a member of the Music, Technology and Innovation - Institute of Sonic Creativity (MTI2). We discuss a number of her research projects, and how they feed into her creative practice. We notably discuss her use of MIR techniques for live-coding, and dealing with large, online, crowd-sourced corpora on a platform such as Freesound.

Links

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

• Leicester Media School at De Montfort University.

• Music, Technology and Innovation – Institute of Sonic Creativity.

• MIRLCAuto: a Virtual Agent for Music Information Retrieval in Live Coding project.

• PhD thesis: “Tabletop Tangible Interfaces for Music Performance: Design and Evaluation” (2015).

• Centre for Digital Music at Queen Mary University of London, AudioCommons.org project, Norwegian Univserity of Science and Technology.

• Women Nordic Music Technology (WoNoMute).

• peterMann:

• Dirty Electronics Ensemble, Dirty Dialogues album.

• Anna Weisling:

• Music with Gerard Roma:

• Carpal Tunnel music label.

• A General Framework for Visualisation of Sound Collections in Musical Interfaces (2021), Roma, Xambó, Green, Tremblay.

• SuperColliderAU.

• SuperCollider Symposium at the University of Birmingham.

• Pompeu Fabra University.

• The Open University. PhD supervisors: Robin Laney, Chris Dobbyn, Sergi Jordà Puig.

• Human Data Interaction – EPSRC Network Plus.

• FreeSound.

• MIRLC.

• Freesound.sc.

• Gerard Roma presenting his work around Freesound at the first FluCoMa plenary:

• Call for special issue of Organised Sound here: issue coordinated by Xambó, Roma and Thor Magnusson.

• Atau Tanaka.

• Shelly Knotts.

• Ixi lang.

• FluidCorpusMap Library.

• Live repurposing of sounds: MIR explorations with personal and crowsourced databases (2018), Xambo, Roma, Lerch, Barthet, Fakekas.

• The Music Technology Group: Spectral Modeling Synthesis Tools.

• Birmingham Electroacoustic Sound Theatre (BEAST): link to Anna’s performance.

• Podcast with Simon Smith.

• HISS: Huddersfield Immersive Sounds System.

• Jason Freeman.

• Ear to Waipapa Taumata Rau with Visda Goudarzi.