hugo flores garcía
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Hugo Flores García (he/him) is a computer musician, improviser, composer, programmer, and scientist.
![Hugo Flores García](/assets/img/me.jpeg)
His creative practice includes improvised music for guitars, found sound objects and electronics, electroacoustic compositions, live coding, interactive art installations, and bespoke musical instruments.
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Hugo’s work is inspired by the appreciation of and interaction with the natural and human-made processes and ecologies around him. His approach to art and science (and the fuzzy spaces between the two) is led by a sense of curiosity and a desire to illustrate his explorations to those around him.
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Hugo is a PhD candidate at Northwestern University, doing research at the intersection of applied machine learning, music, and human-computer interaction. His research centers around designing new interfaces for creative expression, with a focus on the sound arts. Specifically, he's interested in building controllable, artist-centered machine learning interfaces for sound.
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Hugo was born and raised in the heart of Central America: Honduras. He now lives in Chicago, IL with his partner and his two cats, pipi and pixel.
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📰📰📰 news 📰📰📰
- (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!
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