FluCoMa Workshop Materials

hosted by Music Hackspace

event page: Using Machine Learning Creatively via FluCoMa in Max

Instructor: Ted Moore (github: @tedmoore, [email protected])

Saturday, October 22, 2022
11am NYC Time

Introduction

• What is FluCoMa?
• Configure and Install FluCoMa in Max

Patches / Topics

Slicers (Temporal Separation)

• ampslice (patch #01)

• Musical Example: check out the article on Lauren Sarah Hayes' Moon via Spirit

Decomposition (Spectral Separation)

• hpss (patch #02)

• Decomposition with NMF (patch #03)

• Musical Example: check out the article on Olivier Pasquet's Herbig-Haro

Analyzing Audio

• pitch (patch #04)

Plotting Audio Slices

• spectralshape (centroid)
• loudness (loudness)
• bufstats
• fluid.plotter (patch #05)

Dimensionality Reduction

• MFCC Analysis

• UMAP (patch #06)

• Musical Example: check out the article on Ted Moore's quartet

Real-Time Concatenative Synthesis

• KNN (patch #07)

• Scaling Data

• Musical Example: check out the article on Rodrigo Constanzo's Kaizo Snare

Neural Network Classifier

(patch #08)

• Musical Example: check out the article on Alex Harker's Drift Shadow

Neural Networks Regressor for synth control

(patch #09)

• Musical Example: check out the article on Alice Eldridge and Chris Kiefer's FeedbackFeedforward

Follow-Ons

• learn.flucoma.org
  • Reference
  • Learn Overviews
  • Explore (Example Projects...and patches!)
• FluCoMa YouTube Channel (performances and tutorials!)
• More about Machine Listening with Alex Harker: Meaningless Numbers? Using Audio Descriptors in a Musical Manner
• Get in touch with me! [email protected]