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@helenmuse.bsky.social

Music and noise maker. Will not argue which is which.

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Floog Dance, by Affe Zwei from the album Fracas

A kind of pop song - a tribute to the flute and Mother-32:

affezwei.bandcamp.com/track/floog-...

Some words on its conception ;

research.helenbledsoe.com/hidden-agent...

#moog
#flute
#mother32
#subharmonicon
#electronicmusic
#experimentalmusic

05.11.2025 18:44 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#fungifriends
Love this time of year!

02.11.2025 15:48 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Large brown mushroom

Large brown mushroom

Thin brownish red mushroom

Thin brownish red mushroom

Some mushrooms from Iceland #fungifriends

10.08.2025 22:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

#fungifriends

09.08.2025 09:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Hi folks! I am starting a research blog - mostly notes to my future self πŸ˜€ helenbledsoe.com/research-blog/

#artistresearch
#artisticresearch
#maxmsp
#taichilang
#python
#audiovisual
#creativecoding
#aimusic

10.05.2025 09:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The Flute Space! I am honored to be featured in their latest episode where I talk about composers, being a flutist-composer, electronics, and my all-to-brief time in India. open.spotify.com/episode/2W7e...

#flute
#flutespace
#podcasts

19.04.2025 10:59 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Orbital creatures, visuals I made in TΓΆlvera/Taichilang. Can't wait to make these audio-reactive! Video starts after 9 seconds, no sound. youtu.be/hW1IzBVH-8Q?...

#audiovisual
#alife
#organicsimulations
#python
#taichilang
#tolvera

14.03.2025 09:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Call for female composers and vocalists iawm.org/annual-conce...

16.02.2025 07:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Cool terms and/or writing prompts from the latest volume of Aerospace Science and Technology πŸ§ͺπŸ“šπŸͺ

- afterburner environment
- pyroshock propagation
- screech modes (it me)
- whirl flutter effects
- synchrophasing
- supersonic smart sandwich (lunch)
- near-zero warping sandwich (lunch tomorrow)

06.02.2025 02:00 β€” πŸ‘ 38    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
OPEN CALL: Richard Siegal

Open Call for Volunteers: Be part of the dance project β€œLunar Cycle” by Richard Siegal at Museum Folkwang www.museum-folkwang.de/de/presse/op...

28.01.2025 14:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
View of Towards Technological Ecologies as Compositional Environments in the Pedagogy of Acoustic Composition

a little research piece on technology in music composition pedagogy, drawing from my own experience but also from those who have been at the coalface an awful lot longer:

insamjournal.com/index.php/ij...

26.01.2025 08:41 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Today's thoughts on extended techniques - do we need a 21st century Bartolozzi? helenbledsoe.com/extended-tec...

#woodwinds
#music
#contemporarymusic
#avantgardemusic
#composers
#composer
#musicnotation
#extendedtechniques

21.01.2025 10:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Want some tips for composing microtones for flute, especially fast passages? helenbledsoe.com/flute-microt...

#composers
#microtonalmusic
#flute
#avantgardemusic
#musicnotation

20.01.2025 19:28 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

There must be a live recording somewhere in the archeives of one of the many places we performed it in the 1990's - it was a coop of Nieuw Ensemble and Contrechamps.

18.01.2025 08:35 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

It's the year of the snake coming up so I am getting into Python. Here is an audio-visual experiment with tuba, a Julia-class fractal, and the wheel.ts vocal model. The visuals help to navigate the latent space of the model, the tuba disorts the model. #multimedia
#ai
youtu.be/h8_kAr8HBRk?...

13.01.2025 18:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Interested in the social impact of making music (SIMM)? Here is their big symposium: 3/3
www.simm-platform.eu/simmposia/si...

30.11.2024 08:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Interested in the social impact of opera? Here is another seminar: 2/3
www.simm-platform.eu/seminars/sim...

30.11.2024 08:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Interested in the social impact of making music (SIMM)? Here are some interesting events:
1/3
09-11 May 2025: www.simm-platform.eu/seminars/sim...
#artisticresearch #composing #socialimpact #music #seminars

30.11.2024 08:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Mushroom pics from summer in northern Karelia and autumn in Nordrhine-Westphalia #fungifriends

24.11.2024 09:15 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Trying to update a website that reflects a growing and changing career. Any feedback or tips? helenbledsoe.com
#musicianlife #patchworkcareer

18.02.2024 18:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Just finished a score for contraforte and electronics for Lorelei Dowling. Very happy for such a great collaboration and to learn the ins and outs of this massive instrument. You can follow the score here: youtu.be/W2H63v5XqkY?...

12.01.2024 20:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Snow Flowers β„οΈπŸ’™

To all those
Ahead of their time
I wish you
The resilience,
Endurance and courage
To bloom early
And thrive.

05.01.2024 06:40 β€” πŸ‘ 196    πŸ” 39    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 0
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Only a few days left to apply, hope to see you there! www.uantwerpen.be/nl/onderzoek...

04.01.2024 08:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I like to think mushrooms are above all that, that they just coexist peacefully.

09.12.2023 11:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Cozy. #fungifriends

09.12.2023 10:29 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

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