Adam Pultz Melbye is a double bassist, composer, improviser, musical instrument builder, algorithmic designer, interdisciplinary artist, researcher... the list goes on and on. Perhaps most importantly, Adam is a wonderful human being who I am lucky to have gotten to know over the last few years. Adam joined me by video call from Berlin to share their journey from jazz bassist through their prolific and ever expanding career in the arts, technology and research, and some of the feminist and queer theoretical underpinnings of their current practice-based works and residencies.

• Adam's website is adampultz.com, where you can find links to their music, projects, research and publications
• Adam holds a practice-led PhD in music technology from SARC (Sonic Arts Research Centre), Queen's University Belfast.
• Music of Adam's current practice is concerned with feedback instruments, especially the FAAB (feedback-actuated augmented bass), which was designed in collaboration with Halldór Úlfarsson (of halldorophone fame).
• We talk about RAVE (Realtime Audio Variational autoEncoder), a fascinating (and fun!) framework for neural network-based sound synthesis and timbre transfer.
• Adam and I served with our colleague Raul Masu as environmental co-officers for the New Interfaces for Musical Expression conference from 2021 - 2024; during that time we co-authored a paper and created the wiki eco.nime.org, with information and resources to address environmental sustainability in music technology research.

• "Kin: Speculative Evolutionary Algorithms", which was part of the Speculative Sound Synthesis project at the Institute of Electronic Arts (IEM) at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz.
• "Queer Sonic Fingerprint" transdisciplinary research and sound installation at the Art Laboratory Berlin, with Isabel Bredenbröker.

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