Category: On method
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VLOG 4: Nearing True Machine-Musician Interaction? Exploring Rhythm through Fractal Proportions
We are nearing our objective of enabling our computer to interact with a live musician in a manner that closely resembles the interaction with another musician. In this fourth vlog, we explore the user interface developed by Samuel Peirce-Davies, which employs the ml.markov object to learn music from MIDI files. Our aim is to extend…
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Pattern Play
This post introduces the third vlog “Pattern Play,” about our latest dive into machine learning in the “Mycelium and Sound Collectives” project. Here, we explore how the ml.markov object’s ‘order’ command enhances the model’s memory, unlocking intricate musical patterns
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Unveiling Musical Aesthetics
This post introduces the second vlog of ‘Mycelium and Sound Collectives,’ where we are discussing the details of feature engineering, ie the parameter analysis needed for machine learning
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Can my computer learn to improvise music?
This post introduces the first vlog of ‘Mycelium and Sound Collectives,’ providing a behind-the-scenes look at the unique ensemble and exploring the intersection of art, technology, and nature.
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Is Spinoza an analogist, naturalist or … animist? – A pocket memo…
As a part of my ‘pocket research design 2‘, I am reading Descola’s Beyond Nature and Culture (see my selective pocket summary in progress here). While reading, ideas for my coming synthesis/pocket essay are beginning to condensate in my brain. Descola is a structuralist, (see my discussion here) and in order to take advantage of…
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Reading Descola – a doubtful pitstop…. (memo)
As I have promised (myself) in my second pocket research design, I am reading French Anthropologist Philippe Descola’s book “Beyond Nature and Culture”, while writing a ‘selective pocket summary’ here. And while reading: thinking… I am attacking Descola’s mammoth work from various angles at the time. I am reading it as a pdf, in English…
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Pocket research design 2: Pre-modern forager societies vs Spinoza’s polis. A model for a more sustainable way of life in our time?
As a part of my ‘pocket research program’, titled “Can we reason with nature?”, this is my second pocket research design. Here, I would like to follow up on a point, that Australian professor in environmental philosophy Freya Mathews raises in her article “Towards a Deeper Philosophy of Biomimicry” (read my pocket summary here): “The outlines…
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Will knowing nature make us better humans? Pocket research design 1
This is a ‘pocket research design’, where I outline the question whether knowing nature will make humans treat each other and our surroundings better.
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On my ‘pocket research method’ and hamster wheels
Since my life is pretty much a hamster wheel, and my time for working on getting my ideas in order is limited to the two times 1 hour commuting time I have to my job, daily, there is a limit as to how thoroughly I can work on these ideas. I therefore have to find…
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Descola – beyond nature and culture; a selective pocket summary
As a first step in my ‘pocket research program’ “Pre-modern forager societies vs Spinoza’s polis” (read more here), I am reading French anthropologist Philippe Descola’s book Beyond Nature and Culture (published 2013. Original title: Par-delà nature et culture (2005)). This is my selective pocket summary. I am reading this mammoth work from a very selective viewpoint, in…
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