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Rebooting Chroma
I’ve just arrived in Te Whanganui-a-Tara/Wellington for the Australasian Computer Music Conference, the first in-person edition since 2019, and it’s a good time to reflect on a bit project I’ve undertaken with this community—rebooting our journal: Chroma: Journal of the Australasian Computer Music Association.
read moreSetting up Tensorflow with Docker
For the last five years, I’ve seemed to have a more-or-less annual fight with my Linux workstations over installing CUDA to keep on doing GPU-accelerated musical machine learning research with TensorFlow and Keras.
read moreBuilding Synths in NoiseCraft
In this tutorial you’ll follow simple plans to create different electronic sounds and then use your knowledge to create a synthesiser. To create the synthesiser you’ll use NoiseCraft, a website that lets you build your own synthesiser by connecting together modules that create or modify electronic sounds.
read moreHow to get started with research writing
Now’s the time of year that I get started with a new crop of Honours, Master and project students at the ANU School of Computing and at the UiO Department of Informatics.
read moreMagic Lanterns in Canberra
Over the last few years I’ve been invited to perform at several concerts with Martyn Jolley as part of his Heritage in the Limelight project. Martyn and fellow researcher Elisa deCourcy have been exploring magic lantern slide projection from a historical perspective and for creative re-use.
read moreShape-shifting robots in the wild: the DyRET robot
Imagine running on a cement footpath, and then suddenly through dry sand. Just to keep upright, you would have to slow down and change the way you run. In the same way, a walking robot would have to change its gait to handle different surfaces.
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