Learning music with Strudel • Hacker News Board

Re: Learning music with Strudel

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Post by mettamage » Tue, Dec 02, 2025, 4:53 PM UTC

DigitalDopamine wrote: post #3

Loved playing with it! https://strudel.cc/?qVv8Cr0OD6cc

Well that song was my digital dopamine for the day. Couldn’t stop bobbing my head while in a busy train

Re: Learning music with Strudel

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Post by ubidefeo » Tue, Dec 02, 2025, 4:56 PM UTC

I have submitted a talk for FOSDEM26 on Live Coding Music and Hardware with Strudel and MicroPython. Hope to get in :)

Re: Learning music with Strudel

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Post by alabhyajindal » Tue, Dec 02, 2025, 5:02 PM UTC

DigitalDopamine wrote: post #3

Loved playing with it! https://strudel.cc/?qVv8Cr0OD6cc

Amazing! Though I can't get the theme to stop changing while the music is playing. Is there a setting I'm missing?

Re: Learning music with Strudel

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Post by Jarmsy » Tue, Dec 02, 2025, 5:02 PM UTC

a1ff00 wrote: post #12

raphar wrote: post #4

I posted this link, some days ago: Coding Trance Music from Scratch (Again) [video]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu5rnQkfO6M It´s a well done programming and music performance

+1 Switch Angels performances

Increase the duck attack!

Re: Learning music with Strudel

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Post by ashwindharne » Tue, Dec 02, 2025, 5:05 PM UTC

faxmeyourcode wrote: post #2

I've run across more and more strudel musicians (developers?) doing a kind of live coding performance art and posting clips on tiktok and reels. It's really entertaining to watch. I've been meaning to dabble in it.

I went to a basement party/rave recently where the DJ was live-coding strudel, was incredibly cool to see in person. people would watch them type out new lines in anticipation of a beat drop

Pretty cool to see this post, I had no idea where to find more info about it!

Re: Learning music with Strudel

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Post by lomase » Tue, Dec 02, 2025, 5:10 PM UTC

grantmuller wrote: post #29

faxmeyourcode wrote: post #2

I've run across more and more strudel musicians (developers?) doing a kind of live coding performance art and posting clips on tiktok and reels. It's really entertaining to watch. I've been meaning to dabble in it.

Another live-coding environment that is quite nice (Haskell-based) is TidalCycles: https://tidalcycles.org I wrote a whole album of material about 10 years ago with it, just remastered/re-released it. It's a fun way to write music while on an airplane!

Strudel is TidalCycles but in javascript.

Re: Learning music with Strudel

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Post by danvoell » Tue, Dec 02, 2025, 5:11 PM UTC

raphar wrote: post #4

I posted this link, some days ago: Coding Trance Music from Scratch (Again) [video]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu5rnQkfO6M It´s a well done programming and music performance

this is awesome. The only code instruction video instructions that I have watched that doubled as a song. At first I thought it was the Euro dance hall lyrics and then I realized it was actually the code instructions.

Re: Learning music with Strudel

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Post by rob74 » Tue, Dec 02, 2025, 5:22 PM UTC

This clip from an 80s spy comedy is probably too obscure to become a meme, but it deserves to be: https://clip.cafe/gotcha-1985/what-this-strudel/

Re: Learning music with Strudel

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Post by yayitswei » Tue, Dec 02, 2025, 5:26 PM UTC

alabhyajindal wrote: post #33

DigitalDopamine wrote: post #3

Loved playing with it! https://strudel.cc/?qVv8Cr0OD6cc

Amazing! Though I can't get the theme to stop changing while the music is playing. Is there a setting I'm missing?

Looks like the theme changes are part of the arrangement (see lines 135-149).

Re: Learning music with Strudel

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Post by WhyOhWhyQ » Tue, Dec 02, 2025, 5:31 PM UTC

Let me introduce you to a good time.

Step 1: https://strudel.cc/workshop/getting-started/ . Click play on coastline" @by eddyflux

Step 2: Listen for a while

Step 3: setcps(.75) -> setcps(1.5)

Step 4: Listen :)

That is the extent of my strudel knowledge, but damn this is cool.