Tidalcycles Overview
Details
This meetup we will be doing a quick overview of the tidal haskell package for improvised music making. https://hackage.haskell.org/package/tidal
Tidal (short for tidalcycles) is one of the many live-coding languages that a growing number of musicians/video artists are using for performing around the world. More information related to live coding practices, technologies, and events can be found via https://toplap.org/
If you would like to make sounds/follow along with examples during the meetup - please follow the installation steps listed at https://tidalcycles.org/index.php/Installation before the meetup and bring headphones.
Tidal Info:
TidalCycles (or 'tidal' for short) is free/open source software, that allows you to make patterns with code, whether live coding music at algoraves or composing in the studio.
It includes language for describing flexible (e.g. polyphonic, polyrhythmic, generative) sequences. It also has an extensive library of patterning functions, for transforming and combining them.
Tidal is highly composable in that pattern transformations can be easily combined together, allowing you to quickly create complex patterns from simple ingredients.
Tidal does not make sound itself, but is designed for use with the featureful SuperDirt synth, and can control other synths over Open Sound Control or MIDI. Whether you're using SuperDirt or a synth, every filter and effect can be patterned and manipulated independently with Tidal patterns.
Tidal is embedded in the Haskell language, although you don't have to learn Haskell to learn Tidal - most tidal coders have little or no experience in software engineering.
Tidalcycles Overview