What the C*rp*s

A machine-learning electroacoustic composition project. Contributed recordings become the corpus of a machine-listening system, and the result is an album. Deadline 30 November 2026; released on Bandcamp February 2027, with everyone named.

Take part

Tell me what you have. I write back with something made for you — where the corpus is thin, what would help, and a page of notation if you want one.

This takes two minutes and there are no files yet. It is the step I would rather everyone went through, because a corpus assembled without any conversation ends up lopsided: forty people all send struck metal and nothing bows, nothing breathes, nothing scrapes. If I know what is out there I can point you at the gaps.

It is also, frankly, the part I want. Making this with people rather than from an archive was the whole reason for the open call.

Already recorded something?

Then do not let me hold you up. Send it — the conversation can happen afterwards just as well.

Your name and email are used for this project only, are never shared, and are deleted on request.