and another talk with Prof Georgina Born: "Beyond ethics, for a critical interdisciplinary AI music pedagogy", on the work we're doing at @musaiproject.bsky.social with @rebeccafiebrink.bsky.social and @weefuzzy.bsky.social
(there's an Organised Sound paper on this collaboration coming out soon!)
one is with Prof Andrew McPherson @apmcpherson.bsky.social : "Of ghosts and slop: is there 'an' AI music aesthetic?", in which we'll discuss some thoughts on the aesthetics of musical practices with AI systems, and the work we did in collaboration with Dr Adam Pultz Melbye @adampultz.bsky.social
I'll be at the AI Music Studies conference (AIMS 2026 www.aims2026.com/programme) in two weeks, held at the University of Nottingham. I'll be giving two talks on Wed. April 1st:
one with Prof Andrew McPherson @apmcpherson.bsky.social "Of ghosts and slop: is there 'an' AI music aesthetic?" in which we'll discuss some thoughts on the aesthetic tendencies in practices with AI music systems and the work we did in collaboration with Dr Adam Pultz Melbye @adampultz.bsky.social
this is right up my street, I'll be watching it this eve, thank you for sharing!!! :)
Spain to regularise 500k undocumented migrants. This does not wash away the scandalous treatment undoc. migrants suffer through detention in "CIES" (Immigrant Detention Centres). However I am happy to see Spain taking these steps towards making the lives of migrants easier, especially at this time
i think the fontsize is too small but i'm letting it rest for now
special mention to
slashdiv.neocities.org/home?z=/link... for lots of cool content but particularly about fonts and
lospec.com/palette-list... for the gameboy palette
finally updated my personal website design and content teresapelinski.com . got lots of inspiration from sites in neocities.org , used some gifs from gifcities.org , also added a "/now" section (inspo from sive.rs/nowff) and a blog with rss. concept is "identifying as a netizen of the indieweb"
(even writing this, in this deserted platform, feels like overexposure, like trying too hard to be read. don't read it! don't read it! do not read it! ignore I said it! she is not me!)
I have been blaming this thesis (my infinite, never-ending phd) for boycotting the joy I've always felt in writing, but it is clear now that it's actually this monopolised internet of attention capital that is at fault!
I'm currently re-doing my website to add a /now and /blog page to share things on my own terms: no ads between stories, not desperately trying to build social capital, hopefully not overthinking every word. Just existing online, reading what others write, writing my own things
The indieweb reminds me more of my early internet experience. I set up an RSS feed reader, deleted Instagram on my phone, and started doomscrolling through indieblog posts instead. I really like olu.online and maya.land
My existence in Reddit reminds me a bit of it (why this genuine interest in property and trees law? in a DIY loft conversion?), but even if profiles are anonymous it still follows the social and attention capital dynamics of other social media – to say the thing that will get the most upvotes
My online personality was not built on how cool my pictures are or how witty my instagram stories are, or this professional image i'm trying to project, it was built on my childhood interests
when we were kids my friend and I would meet up with our laptops and sit one in front of the other, log into our rol forum, open a thread, a write a story in turns, each from the perspective of our avatar (mine, a skilled photoshop montage of some blond actress on a yellow background)
I miss the internet I grew up with: neopets, club penguin, those online games in minijuegos (the free version of WoW, I was made to believe), forums dedicated to my favourite videogames (NDS Animal Crossing!) and rol forums on my favourite wizard and vampire books at the time
New on the Bela Gem campaign: a look at running AI models on Bela, featuring Augmented Instruments Lab PhD student @tpelinski.bsky.social who explains her pybela package for exchanging data between Bela and python notebooks: www.crowdsupply.com/bela/bela-ge...
giving a seminar today at 3pm CET at the Music Technology Group at @upf.edu, you can join on zoom 👩💻 ! I will talk about practice research and technical work – a digested version of my Journal of New Music Research paper www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Three posters in the Wed. 13:30 session: "pybela: a Python library to interface scientific and physical computing" by @tpelinski.bsky.social (with Giulio Moro) shows a new open-source tool for data streaming between Bela and interactive python notebooks. Try it here! github.com/BelaPlatform...
been enjoying reading Dune by Frank Herbert:
'Once men [sic] turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men [sic] with machines to enslave them.'
'"Thou shall not make a machine in the likeness of a man's [sic] mind."'
Final three videos from the 2024 #EmbeddingAlgorithms workshop. 3: the closing performance by @adampultz.bsky.social on Feedback Actuated Acoustic Bass (FAAB) and @tpelinski.bsky.social on modular synth and machine learning models youtu.be/ZzpQMrLqcG0 #supercollider #bela #belaplatform #modularsynth
you might find it an interesting read if you're into embedded platforms (Bela!), prototyping across different platforms and programming environments, and into doing small, light AI with sensor signals (can I say embodied AI here?)...
or you can just try the library out yourself if you have a Bela
I got a paper accepted at NIME 2025! it's about pybela github.com/BelaPlatform... , a project I've been working on for two years now and that I'm very proud about. you can read the paper here >> teresapelinski.com/documents/20...
I will be presenting it Canberra, Australia in late June! 🌏🇦🇺
come to the next Augmented Instruments Lab Concert!! tickets are free, lab members are showing some of their latest artefacts
🎸🎺🎷🥁📯🪕🪘🎛️🎹🎚️🎤 www.outsavvy.com/event/27053/...
More videos from the #EmbeddingAlgorithms workshop: @tpelinski.bsky.social & @adampultz.bsky.social with “Building and performing with an ensemble of models” youtu.be/jfnpDtOpDJM
#modularsynth #machinelearning #feedback #doublebass #musicresearch #algorithms #newinstruments
My application to join the AI Performance Playground for SÓNAR+D 2025 has been successful!! There's a showcase on Saturday 15th June at SónarÀgora if you're at Sónar and interested in the project!
sonar.es/en/programme...
PhD opportunity: I'm recruiting a PhD student in digital musical instrument design at Imperial College London. Applications now, start date in the autumn. Funding is limited to UK home students. More topic details to follow. Interested? Email me with a CV! andrew.mcpherson@imperial.ac.uk
also happy day to donna haraway for showing me the *light*