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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

#fungifriends
Love this time of year!

Large brown mushroom

Thin brownish red mushroom

Some mushrooms from Iceland #fungifriends

#fungifriends

Hi folks! I am starting a research blog - mostly notes to my future self 😀 helenbledsoe.com/research-blog/

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

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

Orbital creatures, visuals I made in Tölvera/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

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

Cool terms and/or writing prompts from the latest volume of Aerospace Science and Technology 🧪📚🪐

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

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

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...

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

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

#composers
#microtonalmusic
#flute
#avantgardemusic
#musicnotation

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.

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?...

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

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

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

Mushroom pics from summer in northern Karelia and autumn in Nordrhine-Westphalia #fungifriends

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

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?...

Snow Flowers ❄️💙

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

Only a few days left to apply, hope to see you there! www.uantwerpen.be/nl/onderzoek...

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

Cozy. #fungifriends