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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 goldenkey »

yaxu wrote: post #17
sandbags wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If i understand what they are doing then it's not really equivalent as this seems to be a DSL for transforming textual patterns into music, rather than a general purpose music language. While you can dive under the covers it's not required. Getting to this point in Overtone would be some work, so here you can just get started playing with it. Chuck i have less experience with enough to think the same thing applies. T…

Yes it's for exploring patterns. It's not unique in this (cf supercollider patterns, foxdot, isobar, gibber patterns, ixilang etc) but is fairly unique in its purist focus on pattern.

Thanks for explaining its strength succintly

Re: TidalCycles – A language for the Live Coding pattern

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Post by jarmitage »

bphogan wrote: post #49
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.

Feel free to email me jarm at jarm dot is

I will hopefully find time to write something public at some point!

Re: TidalCycles – A language for the Live Coding pattern

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Post by goldenkey »

yaxu wrote: post #39
goldenkey wrote: post #2

Another one? So how is this one different than all the languages that do this (like Chuck or Overtone) AND the libs for C++/all other languages that generate audio as well? The original THX sound was generated in C. I would be inclined to use a language that had more signal processing built in, ie Mathematica: https://reference.wolfram.com/language/guide/SoundAndSonific... https://reference.wolfram.com/language/guide…

You're going to really hate this page https://github.com/lvm/awesome-livecoding/blob/master/README...

Wow the bytebeat is fascinating!!

Re: TidalCycles – A language for the Live Coding pattern

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Post by tomcam »

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 ?

If you have an iPad, GarageBand for IOS is an absolutely incredible start for that kind of thing. Or Korg Gadget, or UVI Beathawk. They act like the physical ones but have more features and cost way less--you've already paid for the hardware.

Re: TidalCycles – A language for the Live Coding pattern

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Post by EGreg »

yaxu wrote: post #46
EGreg wrote: post #45

You need a visual interface with knobs. Not text. This guy needs to see more Bret Victor! https://vimeo.com/36579366

Text is a visual interface, if you look really closely you can see each letter is actually a little picture.

Umm

Can you use text to move a slider?

Re: TidalCycles – A language for the Live Coding pattern

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Post by ozpri »

sctb wrote: post #38
ozpri wrote: post #22

omg. muh ahlbuum is vegan and open source

Please comment civilly and substantively on HN or not at all. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

woah. woah...

Woah.

Please articulate, Civilly, which guideline I Broke that other users don't break everyday and I will gladly change my ways, otherwise don't articulate my perceived shortcomings at all. If you embue me with the power to link to peoples comments I will find all shenanigans and post them for you to comment this message to.

Re: TidalCycles – A language for the Live Coding pattern

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Post by yaxu »

EGreg wrote: post #57
yaxu wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Text is a visual interface, if you look really closely you can see each letter is actually a little picture.

Umm Can you use text to move a slider?

(FWIW I have watched and enjoyed all Bret Victor's videos, and am looking forward to his big reveal. I've also experimented with visual front-ends to tidalcycles, so agree with you to some extent.. But text is really good for describing pattern.)
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