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TidalCycles – A language for the Live Coding pattern

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Re: TidalCycles – A language for the Live Coding pattern

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Post by jarmitage »

I have been using Tidal for my live show (and more recently composition) for a few years and have played at some pretty big clubs in LDN, LA, etc. It's been a revelation and I will not be going back to DJing or 'controllers' any time soon.

If anyone is in London I will be giving a talk about using Tidal soon at this free event: http://www.musichackspace.org/events/music-hackspace-present...

Re: TidalCycles – A language for the Live Coding pattern

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Post by mdahlstrand »

petra wrote: post #18
mezod wrote: post #9

I'll just leave this here... :p Sonic Pi: http://sonic-pi.net/ On GH: https://github.com/samaaron/sonic-pi Aerodaynamic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cydH_JAgSfg

For beginners(assuming some programming knwoldge), what is the easiest way to improvise electronic music: live-coding ? or or a keyboard based software studio application, like fruity loops ? or are there any others ?

A physical device such as a "groovebox" might be interesting for you, they include sequencing, drum machine and synth in one box, much like teenage engineering's OP-1 (which is expensive and modern). One I'm looking at getting is the Roland MC-505. Some people will say they sound this or that, but listen to some demos people have put on youtube and decide for yourself. Think they go for less than £300, and you can make a whole album on one.

Re: TidalCycles – A language for the Live Coding pattern

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Post by ClashTheBunny »

visarga wrote: post #20
eggy wrote: post #19

Tidal (they added cycles when the Tidal music service came afterwards) is great fun. I was hoping to get Hylogen working with it. Hylogen is an EDSL for livecoding shaders in Haskell [1] My weapon of choice is Extempore by Andrew Sorensen [1]. Dual languages in one system available for blistering speed in livecoded graphics and sound/music. [1] https://github.com/sleexyz/hylogen [2] http://extempore.moso.com.au/

Andrew Sorensen's demo makes me wonder if classical music could be "decompiled" as a series of recursive functions, giving us a clear conceptual explanation of what is happening. Then, we could reverse the process to generate similar music, or explore variations.

There are very few classical pieces written devoid of a narrative.

Re: TidalCycles – A language for the Live Coding pattern

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Post by bphogan »

jarmitage wrote: post #42

I have been using Tidal for my live show (and more recently composition) for a few years and have played at some pretty big clubs in LDN, LA, etc. It's been a revelation and I will not be going back to DJing or 'controllers' any time soon. If anyone is in London I will be giving a talk about using Tidal soon at this free event: http://www.musichackspace.org/events/music-hackspace-present...

I'm interested in how you're using it for composition. There are some things I feel I'm missing. I'm not so much interested in creating noise with it; that's never been my thing. But I'd love to see some examples of how you're using it for composing, if you could share.
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