hugo flores garcía
Hugo Flores García (he/they) is a computer musician, improviser, programmer, and scientist.
Hugo's creative practice spans improvised and composed music for guitars, sound objects and electronics, sound installations, bespoke digital musical instruments, and interactive art.
Hugo is a PhD candidate at Northwestern University, doing research at the intersection of applied machine learning, music, and human-computer interaction.
Hugo's research centers around designing new instruments for creative expression, focusing on artist-centered machine learning interfaces for the sound arts
Hugo was born and raised in Honduras, the heart of Central America. He now lives in Chicago, IL with his partner and two cats, pipi and pixel.
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📰📰📰 news 📰📰📰
- (November 2024) composed a sound piece for Ngoc Nau's video installation "All in Good Time" at the Museum Folkwang in Essen, Germany.
- (November 2024) defended my dissertation prospectus!
- (November 2024) played a set of improvised music with loopers, electric fields, hard drives, etc at the Improvised Music Series at Elastic Arts. Read more in the art section..
- (September 2024) presented token telephone, a neural sound installation, at the NIME 2024 conference in Utrecht , NL. Read more in the art section.
- (June 2024) started a summer internship at Adobe Research, working on controllable and expressive sound generation in San Francisco!
- (March 2024) Interviewed for WBEZ article on AI music in Chicago.
- (March 2024) I played Drone Rodeo at the Hideout, a series curated by StretchMetal. video in the art page!
- (Feb 2024) I gave the inaugural talk + performance for the Chicago Creative Machines series at ESS Chicago! Read more in the art section.
- (July 2023) My open-source generative looper, unloop, made it to the front page of hacker news on 07/15/2023!
